The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-04-25
4 WAVE OF PATRIOTISM
WAR is THE ONLY TALK
The Radicals Criticise the Fleet for Not
Starting ar Immediate lombard
ment of Havana-National
Airs In Demand.

The war excitement continued un-
abated yesterday. and. If anything. the
interest of the people in the approach
of the conflict increased in intensity.
Being Sunday. many people who are
otherwise engaged on week days were
able to satisfy their craving for news
by reading the bulletins as they were
posted, and a consequence the crowds
in front of the Standard Office in East
Broadway were denser than ever.
Throughout Tire day the streets were
thonged with people. and numerous in
cidents occurred to manifest the way
i'm which the great wave of patriotism
has taken hold OF the ropulace and to
show the depth OF public feeling in the
crisis.
In hotels. clubs, cafes, anywhere one
might go where people c~ongregate, the
only conversation To be heard was war
talk. Invariably the salutation of one
acquaintance meeting another was,
What's the latest?" and then the i'm
portant items of the news contained
i'm the Standards bulletins would be
repeated, for one Of the two would be
sure to have paid a visit to the Stand
ad Office. whose bulletins have come to
be recognized as containing the most
reliable The tenor OF
public sentiment regarding the manner
I'm which the administration Is handling
the crisis varies very greatly. Many
c~riticise the policy of delay and think
the bombardment of Havana should
have begun as soon as the blockade,
while the more conservative who real
ize the country is going to war without
an army approve the governments pol
icy and express the opinion that no
actual fighting will be done for 80 days
or six weeks, but that The blockade
of Havana will be maintained to keep
reinforcements and stores from being
taken to Cuba while the volunteers are
being prepared for the field. What
ever is the opinion of conversationalists
the talk Is all of war and all are unani-
nous in one thing, and that is their
patriotism.
If we would test the feeling on this
point Is is only necessary to be pres
ent in a crowd hen a band or orches-
ira strikes up a patriotic air. Several
such Incidents have been noted during
the last day or two. At a popular con-
cert hall Saturday evening the orches-
ira opened the evenings programme by
playing The Star SpangIed Banner"
There were not a dozen people in the
place when the music commenced, but
as the strains of the music to which
Francis Scott Keys patriotic lines are
set fioated out into the street and the
crowds heard 1t. they began TO pour
into the concert haI. Before half a
dozen bars had been played the place
was packed, and the crowd took up the
words and sans the song to the end.
Then they demanded il again, and be-
fore the evening MAS over the piece
! had been played nearly a dozen times
i'm response to encores from the crowd.
- - aau 1Va la
Dixie" Yankee Doodle" America"
and the whole list of American airs.
and then applauded them to the echo.
Another incident of the kim occurred
yesterday afternoon. A minstrel COM
pany playing at Maguire's opera house
was parading the streets and stopped
at Main street and Broadway. The
band was soon surrounded by a thou
sand or two people, n when they be-
gun playing a national air the music
was literally drowned by the chorus
of enthusiastic cheers that went up.