Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-10-09
IT is uNEQUALED
Strategy and Energy In Send.
ing Forward
AMMUNITIoN FOR DEWEY.
Nothing Like 1t In All the Worlds His
tory, but the Yellow Journals
Have Nothing to Say In
Regard to This.

tRochestcr Democrat and Chronlcle.l
One point in General Grosvenor's ad-
dress to the veterans of Stephenson
county, Ills, at Freeport, not reported
by telegraph, is worthy of special no.
tice. And that is the way the presi-
dent supplied Admiral Dewey with am
munition when it was known that war
must come. The feet at Hongkong
had not more than five rounds for the
guns, and the new supply must go from
the eastern part of the United States.
Although some of the facts were stated
at the time the ammunition was sent,
General Grosvenor's description gives
more particulars and adds few words
concerning the great value Of the rail-
ways to the Pacific. The general said:
Long Trains of Cars.
while day after day the people Of
your state of Illinois and the people of
other states were being harassed and
and annoyed and rendered almost fran
tic by the assaults made upon the
ically sealed, the contents known but
to the trusted agents OF the govern
ment, were winding their way across
the continent over the Pacific railroads,
which, it is said, cost US too much of
land subsidy, etc., in their construc-
tion.
"They were delivered to the United
States warship Baltimore to be carried
by her to the fleet under Admiral Dew
ey, and early on the morning of the
first day of May the ammunition which
had traversed this continent, while the
president was being condemned by the
men who ought to have been his
friends, was pouring in mighty show
er of fire and smoke and hail of death
into the very vitals of the fleet Of the
Spanish, and it was wiped off the face
of the earth.
Great Military Strategy.
"The strategy of Napoleon Bonaparte
in his palmiest days, the splendid
transfer Of troops under. Washington
from New York to Yorktown, the mob
ilizatiol of the Roman legions in
Britain, were none Of them or any OF
them equal in strategical Importance
to this movement of ammunition that
these shriekers knew nothing Of, and
which had it's incentive in the interest
of the country; and the hour was met
and controlled and made glorious By
the clear-headed wisdom and unfalter-
ing fidelity of the president OF the
United States.
Il turn aside to say that if all the
cost of the Pacific railroads to the
United States government was accum-
ulated in one expenditure today, the
value Of the transfer of this ammuni-
tion across the continent, as | have
described, was of more value to the
people of the country than every dol
lar Of the cost of these roads"
1t is true that after the destruction
of the Maine the people of this country
made their wishes known in some
what peremptory way. The president
| could not mistake the sentiment urg
| ing him on. And now those who cried
aloud are just as well satisfied as Cen
eral Grosvenor that the president was
doing the right thing without making
any fuss about it. What General
! Grosvenor says of the presidents
work and the usefulness of the Pacific
railways will receive hearty indorse-
ment The carrying of that ammuni-
ton was sufficient service to pay for
the railways. When the Nicaragua
canal, long opposed by short-sighted
persons, is finished, some such service
as the bringing of warship from one
ocean to the other at a critical time
may lead public men to speak Of it as
worth more than it cost on account of
a single occasion of usefulness