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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-20
MANILA NOT UNHEALTHY.

When the volunteers now at Camp
Kent arrive at Manila they win find
! themselves in new world, world as
different as possible from the one to
which they have always been ac-
customed IN the European part of
the city they will find a typical Span
ish town. the cathedral the chief
building and the priest the principal
/ parsonage; they will find it like bit
of Old CASTLE, everything about it re-
dolent Of the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries. They win find that Sun
day is the great gala day, SO entirely
different from the Puritan Sabbath of
America. They win find no bun ring
as at Madrid or Seville but in it's place
they win find the cock pit, for cock
fighting may be said to be the national
sport of the Philippine islands The
finest birds come from Sumatra. At
Manila one will find it an easy matter
to fancy himself in some Andalusian
town, though of course the native
quarter of the Gown is entirely differ
ent.
All this is part of the sightseeing,
pleasant anticipation of the expedition
OF the dangers attendant upon
conflict with Spanish soldiers the
volunteers are aware and fully pre-
pared for them. but there is always a
dreaded secret foe in every unknown
country that has far more terrors than
any open armed enemy. This much
dreaded foe is the climate. With the
exercise Of caution and.an adaptation
to changed conditions this foe at
Manila IS not to be dreaded. A gentle
man of St. Paul. Mimi. who spent
many. years in Manila and the Philip
pines, denounces as false the assertion
made in a dispatch from Hongkong
that it is dangerous to send American
troops to Manila in midsummer. Writ
ing to The Pioneer Press. he says: 3
Manila is situated about ts1s de-
grees north latitude. and our soldiers
VIII therefore be. exposed to tropical
heat. They viii arrive there during the
dry or hot season. when the ther-
mometer viii show from sOsto 90 de-
grees during the hottest hours of the
day, falling to 80 to IS degrees
during the night when the sea breezes
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set in. In July the rains begin. but
this season is not necessarily a sickly
one. ard our men would not suffer IN
less greatly exposed. The sanitary
conditions of Manila are excellent. as
compared with other tropical cities or
with Havana, and the rate of NOR
tally is certainly very low Yellow
fever is not known in the Philippines,
nor is cholera prevalent. Small pox,
of a mild form, is occasionally cpl
demic amongst the natives, but if the
usual precautionary measures are
taken this disease need not be greatly
feared. Typhoid exists wherever the
water is contaminated; but Manila has
system supplying pure water, and
this scourge can be avoided in the
Philippines as easily as in our own
cities. where it is always present
Apart from the fact, then, that our
men viii encounter a tropical climate.
1 do not apprehend any great NOR
tally from disease
This is anything but discouraging
picture, and win be pleasing news 10
all volunteers who are going to the
Philippines. Perhaps the safest rule
for them is this, to do in Manila and
the Philippines as the MaEil2ns and
Philippines do.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-20
DEE FoR TEE PHILIPPINEs.

At 10 o'clock this morning, unless the
war department scores another change
in the meantime, two light batteries of
Utah volunteers viii begin a journey
which will end with the storming of
Manila and the planting of our nation
al banner on the oriental stronghold
of Spain. As the boys file out, equipped
and armed, with teams and tents and
baggage, bound for another hemi-
/ sphere, Camp Kent will cease to be;
the city, fresh as the morn, in holiday
attire, will greet them as they come,
admire and applaud them as they pass,
bid them god-speed as they go. shed
many a tear, heave many a sigh,
breathe many prayer when they are
gone.
/ And it viii be a glorious experience
for the young men of the west. The
( long ocean voyage, the discipline on
ship and in camp. the close companion
/ ship of comrades, the danger-gilded
excitement from the very outset the
arrival at last. the meeting and the
greeting in Manila bay. where the he
roes of the war await them, the cheers,
the booming of the great guns in sa-
lutte, every mind will be an album filed
with pictures of these events. Then the
battle win begin, and the shells will
fly for miles to and from the city.
There may be little fighting for the
boys who go from here to do, but their
duties and responsibilities will be as
great as those of soldiers anywhere.
They must be vigilant and ready for
any emergency They viii have to
stand the fire of tropical sun, whose
aim is better and more fatal than the
Spanish gunner. They will take pos
session of all the cities of the islands
when the white flag floats above
Manila, preserve order, guard prisoners
of war and protect them from the ven
geance of semi-civilized insurgents
Life in the Philippines may not be
all that some have pictured it, perhaps.
True, there are groves of cocoa, orange
and breadfruit; forests of cedar, teak
and tamarind, tangled with towering
plants, festooned with hanging moss
and climbing vines, through which fit
gaudy birds of the south land, with
their gorgeous plumage; but the boys
who hold the Philippines for Uncle
Sam viii have little time to wander
there. Still, they will see it all; they
will bring memories to last a lifetime
and stories for three generations to
hear and marvel over.
The boys who go from this state are
congenial; they are led by officers who
are both humane and efficient No
mother need fear that her boy will be
unjustly punished or even mistreated.
The boys know this. They have every
confidence il their officers, and the feel.
ing is reciprocal If the occasion is pre-
scented, Utah's volunteers will cover
themselves with glory. Under any cir
cumstances they viii do their duty and
justify the pride the people of the state
have in them.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-20
AT SANTIAGO DE CUBA.

1t IS officially announced from Ma
drid that the Spanish fleet has arrived
at Santiago de Cuba. News coming
from that source is regarded with more
or less suspicion, but it was from there
that the first news of the battle of Ma
Mia was received. If this news is cor
rect, the Spanish fleet has eluded Samp-
son, though if it is in that harbor it VIII
not eventually escape him. 1t is not
where it is desired by Spain to land
supplies that place being Havana. Sup
plies at Santiago de Cuba are as use
less for the relief of Havana as at Ca
diz, for there is no railroad communica-
ton whatever. Nor is that all. There
are no docking facilities at Santiago de
Cuba, and several of the Spanish yes
sells are much in need of going into
dock. to have their bottoms scraped
among them the Vizcaya. If they do
not get this scraping they will get
slower and slower, and need more coal,
for the barnacles and sea weed attach
ing to them retard their progress very
much.
If the Spanish fleet is really where it
is reported to be, is the American fleet
within striking distance? The one am
bition now of the fleets under Samo-
son and Schley is to do battle with
the Spaniards: of the result of that
battle they entertain no doub- To do
battle does not appear TO be the ambi-
ton of the Spaniards, though their very
presence so far from their base of sup
plies shows that they are anything but
towards. and that they do not shirk
undertaking dangerous expeditions.
If the Spanish fleet is at Santiago de
Cuba. very important news may be ex-
pactad in n few davs
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AMERICANS AS ANeLo-sAxoNs.


/ Speaking of Chamberlains Birming-
ed to have said:
CLOSER Anglo-American relations are
doubtless feasible, but an alliance is
improbable, unserviceable to both. Be
sides, it is mistake to call the Amer
leans SaXons. Theirs is a mixed blood
British. Irish, German, French and
Scandinavian. The Anglo-SaXon does
not even predominant today"
1t would be quite as hard TO substan-
tate this assertion as to refuJe it, while
the burden of proof is upon him who
makes it. The Americans have never
called themselves Saxons, bat they
have always considered that the Anglo
Saxon element predominated in the
population. Prince Bismarck says it
does not. To substantiate his assertion
he might have cited the authority of
the late Edward Freeman, who assert
ed that there was no such a thing as an
Anglo-SaXon, and nothing so irritated
him as to talk about the Anglo-Saxon
race The Angels and the Saxons both
having been overthrow and finally
subjugated by William the Norman, it
is perhaps incorrect to speak of the
English of today as Anglo-Saxons, but
the phrase today is used anonymously
with English and as applied to the
Americans it means descendants of the
English.
1t will hardly be contended that the
people of the English colonies in Amer
lea at the time they threw off the Brit
ish yoke were not Anglo-Saxons in the
broad sense of the term, though there
were many Scotch and Irish and HUI
guenots. immigration to the United
States was trifling in amount up to
1920, and it was not until 1Sf7 that i'm
migration upon a considerable scale set
in. immigration from 1920 to 1890 was,
for each decade as follows.
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Transatlantic News.

Reuters kilograms, the Direct, and
Mackey's Cables supply the reading and
commercial public on this side of the
Atlantic with faithful news. Ocean CON-
municatiOn with the other side has also
received immense impetus through the
Improvement OF steam vessels, and the
increase of their size and motive power.
Passengers across the Atlantic are, in
spite of splendid accommodations and
the lessened vibration by Improvement
in the hull of steam vessels always
liable to sea sickness. The nausea
which the complaint produces is cur
able with Eostetter's Stomach Bitters.
which quiets ana invigorates the stom-
ach and relieves biliousness. Malaria
and the disorders caused by changes of
climate, exposure in Indictment weather
and unusual diet, are also remedied
by it.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-20

Speaking of the Dorst expedition and
its failure, the Chicago Times Herald
says:
The failure of the expedition which
sought to land supplies and ammuni-
ton for the Cuban insurgents not only
Shows the folly of basing military ex-
PLOTS upon ideas emanating from the
yellow journals, but also affords
striking proof of the wisdom of the
president in insisting that congress
should not recognize the insurgent gov
eminent.
1t is alleged that the war department
decided to make the maneuver upon
the representations of a correspondent
of a New York yellow journal, who
made ridiculous pretensions to accurate
knowledge of the insurgents, and who
conceived a wild and impracticable
scheme for establishing basis Of COM
munication between our forces and the
insurgent troops under General Del
gado Under command of Captain
Dorst of the United States army the
transport steamer Gussie, with two
companies of infantry on board in
charge of 1000 rifles and 100000 rounds
of Ammunition, intended for the insur-
gents of Pinar Gel Rio, tried to effect a
landing at points between Cabanas and
Cardenas. The supplies were to be
conveyed to General Gomez by a force
of insurgents encamped three miles
back from the coast.
If it be true. that the war department
undertook this expedition upon the
representations of any correspondent it
shows a woeful condition of things in
4he department. Military expeditions
should be based upon definite knowl-
edge gained through military sources.
1t is all nonsense to try and throw
the blame for the failure Of the Dorst
expedition upon any newspaper or its
correspondent; place It where it be-
l6ngs-on the war department.
Some of the volunteers at Camp Kent
have formed Bible class. They can.
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not occupy their spare moments TO bet
ter advantage than studying the Book.
1t affords the best preparation for
young men who are going to fight for
humanity and civilization. Cromwelrs
soldiers were all students of and believ-
ers in the Bible. and they were as good
soldiers as the world ever saw. He who
fortifies his soul by study of liberal
teachings will live patriot and die
hero when called upon to sacrifice his
life for his country's good
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-20
COMMENTS By THE PRESS.


Boston Advertiser: Don Carlos. the
pampous puppet OF French SPECTATORS, in
mis- retreat. at Ostend, gains mis- whole
idea of the events OF the world outside
from the opinion of his little, make-be-
Iieve court. Plainly. the poor. Old play
actor at Brussels (Who still admires the
! tinseled s9lendOr OF his tawdry mimic
crown, and loves to cream OF kingly hon
ors without having the energy 10 make
the dream a reality is q Bourbon of the
Bourbons in his admiration for Weyler.
Pittsburg Dispatch Our military es-
Establishments having been reinforced by
Russell 3. Harrison, James q. Blaine and
young Mr. Foraker how would il do TO
put them on the strategy board? That is
a nice, comfortable military detail, and
it never does any fighting.
Chicago Inter-Ocean: The physical ex
aminations made by the United States
surgeons are such that a man with an
imgediment in his Vermiform appendix
stands no possible chance of going TO the
front.
Baltimore American: Spanish gunnery
is improving, and it is no longer safe for
an American gunboat TO run up TO a fort.
confident that 70 shot will be landed
within half mile of it.
Cincinnati Enquirer: 1t is not easy TO
understand why we should not have gone
to bombarding San Juan several weeks
ago, Then the navy could have gone on
with the work to a finish. There would
have been no interruption to sk.lark at
ter the Cape Verde fleet.
Omaha Bee: Out IN Utah they are
talking of a holiday in joint celebration
of the destruction of the Spanish Philip
pine fleet and the destruction of Butch
Cassiday and part of his gang of Rob
bers' Roost' desoeradoes. 1t is hard TO
tell which incident has caused the great
est JOY.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-20

The curfew laws that have been
passed in numerous towns up in vest
ern Massachusetts appear TO be oper-
ating very much Ike the papal bull
against the comet says the Boston
Herald. They are not enforced. and
no need is paid. to them. either by the
authorities or by the children on the
streets after nightfall. This move
uent to substitute bylaws for parental
discipline operates as might be expect
81 in sensible communities.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-20

I Thou vert ordained vest TO wear
Not made like ours of clay.
But woven with the beams of clearest
day.
a chsrub fair?
For on that. one. well spent morn.
! Unconscious thou vert borne
70 wash the baDtismal stream.
To gain thy title TO the glorious name
Which doth unbar the gates OF Paradise.
And thou vert taken home
Before that peril that might come
BY thy parents human pride
I IN thy soft beaming eye;
But not before
Their blessings on thee they might pour
And pray that if so early doomed the
Yet God might speed thee on thy path
Through the void realms OF Death
And Christ reserve thee in his bosom
TIL rain and sin shall cease;
Til earthly shows shall fly and they
Shall wake TO life with thee from clay.
we live amid the tumult and the stress
OF fierce eddying fight.
And to our mortal sight
Our fate is trembling in the balances;
And even it hath seemed
The Temote rat he neither scale
Might over Love prevail
Bur thy dear faith can never fail,
The ne shadowy forms of doubt and change
Athwart thy tranquil fate 40 more may
range,
Nor speck its lucid path
With tokens and remembrances of death.
XII
! nen flow, We blameless tears, a while,
little While We may.
The natural craving to beguile
THIS task is yours; with you
Shall peace be born anew
And sorrow glide away.
oh, happy they in whose remembered lot
There should appear no darker spot
Than this, of holy ground,
This, where, within the short and narrow
bound
From morn to eventide,
In quick, successive train,
n infant lived and died
And lived again.
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The war has been very humane on
the part of Spain. About dozen
americans have been killed by her
ships and soldiers while Dewey killed
several hundred Spaniards. Spain's
humanity is the result Of the poer
craftsmanship of her gunners and
soldiers.
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sERENADE OF BLANCo.

Below thy castle windows. love,
Upon the tropic tide,
/ wait for thee and gather il
Thy vessels on the side.
And if thou still be coy, sweet love,
And If thou still he shy,
I'll sail into thy castle. love,
Ana knock the thing sky high
/ w NJ
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The Spanish feet does not show its
heels; it doesn't show anything. All
that Sampson asks is a fair show and
he VIII make holy show of the Span
fsh fleet.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-20

The vigorous campaign that John
Wanamaker is carrying on against
Quay is a pretty good indication that
if he had raised a regiment and gone
to the war he would have made it
pretty warm for the Spaniards.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-20

Four men were drummed out Of
Camp Black, Peekskill, n. Y, the other
day. On the papers of one Of the men
was inscribed this diagnosis, by his
major: From this mans statements
it seems that he has not been well for
years. i is the opinion of the examin-
ing surgeon that it is a simple case Of
eowardice." Undoubtedly the EXAMINE
ing surgeon was right.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-20

Bismarck says he has always held
that war is only defensibIe after all
other remedies had failed. This causes
one to smile when his confession of
how he forced the quarrel with France
is remembered.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-20

The name of the Gussie should be
changed. The diminutive is bad enough
when silly school girls use it, but to use
it in the navy is simply horrible.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-20

Visitors at seaside resorts will see
Spanish warships instead Of sea ser
penis this summer. This will relieve
The monotony and give added excite
Inent
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-20

General Alger wants a second as
sistant secretary of war. The people
are of the opinion that what is needed
is a secretary of war.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-20

1t would be quite interesting to know
what the governor OF. North Carolina
said to the governor of South Carolina
about the North. Carolina volunteers.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-20

A gentleman who is well acquainted
with Havana assures US that the water
in that harbor is nearly as bad as the
Chicago river.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-20

1t is said, in explanation of the delay
in invading Cuba, that the volunteers
are too green to be put in there as an
invading force. And there are others.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-20

At Newark, O., little girl was born
the other day with two teeth. Not
withstanding this fact she can never
become a Richard III.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-20

The Spanish fleet is doing the wise
thing in keeping out Of SIMPSONS way
He would soon capture or sink it.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-20

You can see the Star spangled ban
ner by the dawn's early light, but you
can't see the Spanish feet by it or
any other light.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-20

The peaceful blockade and the news
paper prize fight differ more in degree
than IN kind.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-20

Uncle Sam accepts no piebald horses
They are only good for small boys and
Indians; no man would care to ride
one
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-20

A Kansas girl killed a wildcat with
a club. The average womans club
would kill almost anything.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-20

The departure of the Charleston
seems to be. a manana affair.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-20

1t has been a great rain and a great
thing for the state.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-20

When you see a man standing on the
corner with a far away look in his eye
you may be sure he is looking for the
Spanish feet.
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] ]

rs that thy feeble cry
But just beyond the threshold of the
grave?
Art thou get waiting in the voiceless hall
OF Dis. or hearst the mourning waters
fall2
Thou canst not sure he nigh
Where mad and shrieking spirits rave
Or dost thou slumber take
BY the deep CLASSY and translucent lake
Throush = chill aXhaustless night
Apart from woe, yet senseless of del.gnt!'
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-20

If there were no board OF strategy
perhaps so many of the navy's moves
wouldn't be laid on the table.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-20

.'Oh. whittier hast thou fed
From the warm. joyous world removed?'
Might one of old have questioned
OF his dear and dead;
Painting and straining for relief
Unto . passion and hopeless grief
WHITTIER. o thou in vain beloved,
Whittier hast thou borne
The smiles and kisses that were gathered
~
In thee. for her that bore thee. now for
lOrn.
As sweets in the wild roses cup
Before the norm
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-20

Spain has a new cabinet and the new
cabinet has bankrupt treasury and a
foreign war on hand.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-20

IS it possible that Cervera is using a
perfected system of wireless tele-
graphy?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-20

What per cent of this population
came frol 9, various countries that might
be called Anglo-Saxon and what per
cent from others? OF the Foreign born
population in 1880, 2.7S4. S94. or BOIL per
cent, were born in Germany. Prince
Bismarck would undoubtedly call that
Teutonic and not Anglo-Saxon, yet the
Saxon settlement of Britain was most
probably participated in by all the
German tribes between the Elbe and
the Schlei OF the foreign born popu-
lation in 1890. 1.S71,5O9 or 2O.2S per cent,
were born in ireland. No one will claim
that the Irish are Anglo-SaXons. Of
natives of Great Britain there were liv-
ing in the United States in 1890, !, Psi, 402,
or 1888 per cent. OF natives of Can
ada and Newfoundland, there were liv-
ing in the United States in 1890, $780,,
9SS. or 1851 per cent; of this number
So. Is per cent were Of English extraction.
OF natives of Norway, Sweden and
Denmark there were 49,, 249 or 1909 per
cent. If the German born inhabitants
are reckoned as Anglo-SaXon, it makes
the Anglo-Sax element 60.73 per cent
of the foreign born population; not
reckoning them, the Anglo-Saxon ele-
ment of the foreign born population
was 1882
There are no statistics to determine
exactly this question of what race pre-
dominates in the United States, but
there is no question that Anglo-Saxon
political ideas predominant, and the
political ideas and ideals are what
really determine the character of any
people. Other races thar the Anglo
Saxon have modified in very small de-
gree the political ideas OF this country,
and for all practical purposes it is pre-
eminently Anglo-Saxon.