Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1898-08-13
PEACE TO COME SOON.
Half of Porto Rico in Our Possession.
Skaters Army Being Brought
to the u. S.-The American
Manufacturer.
tFrom Our Regular Correspondent }

WASHINGTON, d. c., Aug. S.
President Mckinley is so confident
from the assurances he has received
that the Spanish government will, as
soon as it can with safety to itself,
formally accept our terms of peace,
that he is devoting considerable time
to deciding upon just the right me
to represent the u. S. upon the COM
mission that will be charged with the
important and delicate duty of nego-
tiating the treaty OF peace between
the y. S. and Spain. Notwithstand.
ing his confidence, there is a limit to
the time he is willing to give the
Spanish government to square itself
with the people of Spain The French
Ambassador, who is representing
Spain, in Washington, has been told
that unless the terms of peace are ac-
cepted in a given time, they will be
withdrawn. and that if they are with
drawn, il is intended by this govern
ment 20 carry the war into Spain at
once, and that no such magnanimous
terms will be again offered
The news from General Miles con-
tinues good. More than half of Porto
Rico is already in his possession and
he is steadily extending his line S,
without fighting.
Gen Skaters army is being
brought away from Santiago just as
fast as the ships at hand can get them
away, in order to give the men a
chance to recuperate.
President Mckinley gave the two
Cincinnati boys who started the idea
of raising, by contributions from
school children the money to buy the
finest battleship in the world, for pre-
sentation to the U. S., and to be
named the American Boy, letter en-
dorsing their project and saying; II
am sure the boys and girls will deem
it privilege to be numbered among
the contributors to this patriotic un.
dertaking." Master w. Rankin
Good, of Cincinnati, President of the
National American Boy Fund, and a
companion. had very pleasant inter
view with the President-two inter-
views, in fact.
The Department of State has been
officially notified that an international
Congress, for the purpose of discuss
ing tariff legislation and the regula-
ton of labor, will be held at Antwerp,
Belgium, from September Il to II in
elusive. Americans have a tariff sys-
tenn now that is bringing them great
prosperity, and countries that are
prosperous have little difficulty in the
regulation of labor.
Not only is the American manufac-
turer holding his own market under
the Dingley tariff law, but he is push
ing his goods into all the markets of
the world at rate that must be as
tonishing to those who claim that a
protective tariff would cause our man
ufacturers to lose all their foreign
trade. 1t was generally known long
before the bureau of statistics could
foot up the figures and announce the
grand total, that our expectation of
agricultural products during the last
fiscal year, was largely in excess of
any single year in the history of the
country, and it is now known that
our expectation of manufactured ar
ticles during the last fiscal year, ex-
ceeded that of any other year, by near
| ly $I2, 900, 600, and reached in value
the enormous sum of S2SS, 81 ,44o,
and, what is still more gratifying,
our imports of manufactured articles
during the same period, were I'M
usually light, showing that our manu-
| facturers have recovered control of the
home market which they partially
lost under the low tariff law, enacted
by the Democrats, as we'll as increased
their foreign trade. These are the
sort of facts that will have to be for
gotten before the people of this coun-
try vote the Democratic party back
into power; they are also the sort of
facts that speak for themselves and
need no labored argument to make
them understood.
Surgeon General Sternberg h a S
written general defense of the medi-
cal corps OF the army and himself from
attacks made upon them, many vi
which he says were instigated by
those who became offended at his OPP
position to sending female nurses to
camps of instruction or with the army
in the field. He saysthe only trouble
with the medical corps is that there
are not enough surgeons in the army,
even in peace; that it is probable that
in taking on about 500 contract sur
geons, some incompetence may have
slipped in, owing to hurried examin-
ations. Of the shortage of medical
supplies at Santiago, he says: The
principal reason was that the supplies
were left behind when the army left
Tampa, owing to lack OF transporta-
ton facilities, and one of the minor
reasons was the delay in landing
supplies of all kinds at Siboney.