The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-06-22
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WEDNESDAY. JUNE %. 1895.
Back Again.

~1E dulZ meet II reported 10 nave
returped to Cadiz. That is the
habit of the Cadiz fleet. 1t can't
break itself of IL. 1t puts to sea-des-
tination unknown" 1t is given out
that 1t is headed for Manila: IL not
for Manila. then for Boston. New York
and Charleston: If not for Manila. nor
for Boston. New York and Charleston.
then for Havana or Santiago. But like
a bad penny. 1t always returns. AS a
matter of fact. it leave Cadiz-for Ca
dir. 1t gets there. 1t doesn't get any
where else. Its mission is to keen the
Americans in a state of doubt. uncer-
tainty and fear. Its object in life liz to
cry wolf and scare somebody. 1t has
cried wolf" several times too often.
Nobody cares for the Cadiz fleet any
longer. Ii is formidable on paper. not
on water. The Cadiz fleet. its capaci-
ties and capabilities are known. The
Pelayo is a battleship with partly
ruined boilers. The Emperador Carlos
". is an armored cruiser whose turrets
wort turn. There are some torpedo
boat destroyers of dubious buoyancy,
n some recently converted cruisers.
with three transports. Concealed mid
the fleet somewhere is a mysterious
chemist with an explosive Of uncanny
properties n powers-in his mind and
in the Imagination OF the Spanish re-
porters. The Cadiz fieet-who gives a
whoop in war for the Cadiz fleet? Last
Sunday. when IL MAS supposed that the
Csdiz fleet had gone somewhere to do
something, the Chicago Chronicle re-
marked:
Camara has sailed. His collection of
nautical junk. which has been keeping
the American administration in a profuse
sweat for the last three weeks. has
wheezed its way into the Mediterranean.
IL may be bound for the Philippines. IL
may be out for a practice cruise. II may
be merely floating around with no pur-
pose at all save to bamboozle the Spanish
people into the belief that their govern
ment Is really doing something.
But whatever it's purpose or it's destins-
tion we now have the fleet definitely To-
Gated. II may head for the Suez canal en-
route for Manila. though such a proceed
ing would smack of insanity. II may re-
turn to Cadiz. IL may lumber around In
the Mediterranean with the idea of kill
ing time. But from this time forward We
shall be in no doubt respecting its where
abouts.
The Mediterranean Is a land-locked sea,
as Its name implies. Camara can emerge
from II at two points only-through the
Straits of Gibraltar or the Suez canal
and his every movement will be reported
from the ports at which he may touch.
He Is. for all practical purposes. bottled
up" as securely as his esteemed contem-
porary Cervera at Santiago de Cuba. He
can no longer inspire terror along the
New England coast and in the white
house.
Sure enough. the Cadiz fleet is bottled
up. Camara put to sea. and. having
put to sea. put back again; all the same
as the strategic king of France. who
went up the hill and. having arrived at
the summit. executed a movement
which brought him to the foot again.
Cervera is bottled up: Csmara is bot
tied up; Ssgasta is bottled up: all Spain
IS bottled up. The more intelligent
Spaniards know il. But Spain with
an obstinscy which she is vainly i'm
ploring history to regard as honor is
~prolonging a war which she forced
upon herself and which she knew must
result disastrously to her from the
start.