The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-09-07
SANTIAGO CAMPAIGN.
Continued from Fourth Page.)


 This peremptory order was a first class military blunder, but it and it alone saved General Shafter's campaign from disgraceful failure.
 General Breckenridge, the inspector general of the army, reported from Santiago that, so far as he could see, the Shafter campaign had been con- ducted in violation of the principles and rules of the art of war.
 General Alger. in his Depew letter, says that perhaps General Shafter's campaign bordered on audacity," but the persistence of the attack disheart- ened the Spaniard." I say the cam paign was all audacity, but it did dis hearten General Blanco.
 The destruction of Cervera's ships, and not the capture of Santiago, put an end to the war. Toral not only sur rendered his own army, but, unasked, offered to surrender twelve thousand soldiers outside Santiago, and in no manner affected by the capture of that place, provided the United States would ship them home to Spain. General Miles is said to smile when this un- asked surrender of twelve thousand men is credited to the glory of General Shafter.
 But you say. supposing all these crit icisms to b just, yet the object of the Shafter campaign-the destruction of Cerveras feet-was accomplished. A soldier of the Fist New York, dying from starvation and neglect, said, "how unnecessary it Is that I should lose my life so." A nation of seventy millions, rich and powerful, was fight ing close to it's own shores poor, worn- out. old, dying nation of seventeen mill lions three thousand miles away, and yet the Shafter campaign was fought on the theory of the senseless, unintelli- gent bulldog, anxious only to get it's Hangs in the throat of it's enemy, re- gardless of the health or life of the sol dier, and it comes for this reason near being a confessed failure, and it was only saved by the unexpected blunder of General Blanco.
 There was no necessity for such reckless unmilitary expenditure of life and health of the soldiers in order to capture or destroy the Spanish fleet. How totally opposite to this reckless spirit of General Shafter has been the conduct towards their men of Dewey, Sampson and Schley! Dewey went into Manila harbor under cover of night and attacked the Spanish fleet as soon as possible. His men were up all night and lost their usual breakfast
 As soon as the progress of the battle assured Dewey of ultimate success he hauled off and ordered the men to breakfast, and after that finished up the job. 'Care for his men"-that is the great duty of the commander in our army. Patriotism will not survive un- necessary starvation.
 Of the incomparable bravery of the American soldier, regular or volunteer, white or colored-of his ability as an in- dividual to take the initiative" as it is called, and SC on with the fight, with out waiting for orders-of all this the world knows and uncovers it's head in tribute. But what shame that such a body of splendid soldiers should have been obliged so unnecessarily to suf- fer such great hardships and privations and sickness, and perhaps die from their effect!
 General Shafter may be able to com- mand an infantry division, but how to use an army with it's cavalry, artillery and engineers, and how to provide that an army should be well fed, well tented and well cared for, and its sick and wounded saved, so far as may be, of all this he has displayed no knowledge in his Santiago campaign. J,