The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-06-19
GoLDBUa ADMISSIONS.

Commercial Advertiser: The navy de-
partment has worked while the war oe-
partment has slept.
New York Times: We have been at war
/ 50 days, we have attacked the enemy at
Havana at Manila. at San Juan and at
Santiago. We have nowhere obtained
complete victory followed by capture, we
have compelled no capitulation, we have
taken no prisoners OF war, ana II the
Stars and Stripes float anywhere on Span
ish soil IT is at the waters edge; with no
command of the interior. 1t is humiliat-
ing. 1t is astonishing. nation OF ioOo, :
900; enormous wealth against bankrupt
treasury; the ''smartest people on the
ward. Fifty days. and we haven I
whipped them yeti Why? The reason Is
TO be found in our blind and supremacy
foolish national policy. Spain ought TO
have been crushed and the war ended by
the middle of May. They tell us this is
unreasonable. that we were totally I'M
prepared, that we had to buy ships, as
semble navy. and create an army. We
know that only too we'll That is the
cause of our weakness, the source OF our
disgrace-for it is a disgrace; a singing
disgrace. to be stood off, 80 days by a
miserable old bag of bones like Spain. But
that only explains. it does not excuse.
Pittsburg Dispatch: It is we'll to learn
the lessons of experience. One. of the
most salient of them so far has been the
inability of our administration. from the
time that the necessity or the war began
to loom up, to appreciate the vital value
of time.
Boston Journal: Once more the navy
leads. Admiral Sampson opened last
week with a brilliantly successful bonn
bardment of Santiago silencing the Span
ish batteries and sinking one of the en-
emy's ships. He ended the week by hoist
ing at Guantanamo. 81 miles away. the
first American flag which has been raised
in Cuba by force sufficient to maintain
it. This notable work-the real beginning
of the Cuban land campaign-was done by
body of marines.
Boston Post: This is the eighth week
of the war. 1t is to be hoped that II may
prove to be a week of action; that some
thing will be accomplished. definite. de-
cisive in the long delayed movement to
compel the withdrawal lat once of Spain
ish authority and Spanish arms from
Cuba. The American people have been
very patient while awaiting results in this
"kind-hearted' war. They have endured
the tangling of red tape and the disap-
pontments caused by indecision or incom-
potency in the councils at Washington.
and have continued Loyalty to b. * up the
government at every point. But the blaz-
ing outburst of national enthusiasm
shows that what the people want is
action, and they will appreciate it most
heartily If directed to the accomplish
ment of the declared purpose of the war,
which has not yet been touched-the eX-
pulsion OF Spain from Cuba.
Louisville Courier-Journal: The theory
upon which the war board at Washing
ton is working seems to me that war must
be waged without any risk TO life. Not
withstanding we have enough convoy
ships with our transports to sink the
whole Spanish navy. the board has de-
layed the dispatch of the troops at every
ruI----5f a puff of smoke or a sea ser
pent IN the Atlantic ocean. In this way
the Spaniards are afforded weeks OF time
in which to strengthen their defense at
Santiago. at Havana, at San Juan. and
thus make our loss of life the greater
when we do attack them. to say nothing
of the starvation in Cuba which We went
to war to relieve.