Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-05-18
Dewey's Work Puts al
Empire at Uncle Sans Disposal.

Empire at Uncle Sans Disposal.
A dispatch to the Chicago Times
Herald from Washington says:
The representatives of foreign
governments are taking an in
tense interest in the conflict between
the United States and Spain. They
are especially concerned at the present
in the fate OF the Philippines and dis
cussing the possibility of interference
by the powers. The consensus of
opinion seems to be that if the United
States should conclude to retain pos
session of the conquered islands in the
Pacific the European powers will have
no cause to interfere.
Attention is also called to the fact
that with the capture of the Philip
pines the United States can also claim
the Marianne, Pe1ew, and Caroline is
lands. A foreign diplomat, whose
opinion is worth consideration, in dis
cussing the situation, says:
European statesmen are very much
gratified to note that the United Stat
es appears determined to handle the
Philippine question ably and strongly.
When the newspapers first asserted
that only 10000 soldiers were to be
sent to reinforce Admiral Dewey and
make permanent the fruits of his vic
tory, considerable uneasiness was
felt. 1t would be physical impossi-
bility to police the eight or nine mil
lion of Inhabitants in Spain's oceanic
colonies with that number of men.
Under good military government it
would require 0,000 for administrative
purposes alone. The proposition to
transport 10000 soldiers to this con-
quest is more like a business PROPOSE
ton. 1t may surprise some Americans
to know that Dewey's victory carries
with it spoils of war probably larger
than was ever decided by the issues of
one battle. The future influence and
value of this conquest are almost in
calcula BILE. Studying the situation as
it exists we must assume that with
the fall of the Philippines the United
States acquired at least the right of
disposal of more than nine million
people. Together with the Philippines
go the Marianne islands and the
Pelews and the Carolines. The Phil
ippines have an area of ia, 800 square
miles, the Marianne or Ladrone is
lands have 440 square miles, and the
Pe1ews and Caro1ines have 1,45O:
Stretching eastward from the Philip
pines these groups extend about IS de-
gfees of latitude. A little further TO
the north and east are the Hawaiians.
Should the United States then build
one of the isthmiam canals she will
not only control the oceanic water
passage, but in the most strategic por-
ton of the Pacific ocean she can, as it
were, cross that vast expanse of the
ocean upon her own stepping stones"
Washington, May flowing to the
complicated names of Spanish ships
destroyed by Commodore Dewey, the
following is taken direct from the list
given by Secretary Long; Reina
Christina, Castillo, Don Juan de Aus
tria, Isla de Cuna, General Lezo, Mar
ques Deluro, Ell Corrso, Ve1asco, one
transport, Isla de Mindano, I.Ia 6e
Cuna probably means Isla de Cuba.
The Ell Corrso probably means Ell
Cano. DON Antonio is the Don An
tonic de U1loa. The Isle de Ulloa is
not given in reliable data of Spanish
ships, and is confounded with the Don
Antonio de Ulloa-