The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-03-01
THE BASIS OF SETTLEMENT,

The dispatches in the newspapers yeStSr
day morning described the efforts OF tn,
Federal administration TO settle its differ
ences with Spain. growing out OF IA,
wrecking Of the Maine, on the basis OF dol
lars and cents, and those who are familiai
with The foreign pollcy-foreign in NOR,
ways than one--which has dominated ihis
government since james q. Blaine died
will not be inclined to doubt the accuracy
of the news conveyed. The death oil
Blaine is mentioned In such a connection
only because he was the last man III nigh
rrblio office to assert the vlgor anl Dig
rity of his government. which began with
| Washington. and which NIornuc, Jacks q u
and Lincoln we're called upon 10 demon :
strale during their terms OF office. IL vigor
and dignity which has etfectuaIly aisAp-
nearcd since Clover Cleveland anil VIII
liam Mckinloy became presidents OF the
! United States.
! This Is not lingo appeal II Is not an
| assault upon Mr.. Cleveland Or Mr.. McKin
ley, or any OF those who believe thar IL Is
| better TO receive money than TO resent in
suit. It is an honest effort 20 reduce 10 u
| tomnol sense and Inathematieuily accurate
| lasis the policy already outlined by our
| administration. For. il two successive
presidents asscrt that money Is To he ac-
| ocpted as a Iepompenss for all intcrna-
| tjonal Ills. and gold Is to be the sole basis
OF arbitration whenever some foreign now
er aims It's boot at Uncle Sans distend-
"a coat-tals. then 1T Is permissible 10 ar
| range a schedule of pricss that will permit
such foreign nations to act vita an Intel
| lisent understanding as TO what their I'LL
will be afterwards.
| There are many Of us who do not like TO
look upon the picture which the newspaper
correspondents have painted 1t does not
seem right to few of us. whoae ideas are
slill old fashioned, TO watch President Me-
kinley and Senior Sasasta disputing over
The cost of the Maine anl conteniing over
The velle. In cold dollars, Of the go fight
ing American marines who went down with
her. some of those marines are not even
buried yet, and we would rather Gull the
whole thing off than continue the decker.
lut the iolhscbilds stand by the senior
lingling their gold, and back OF Mckinley's
chair stand Senator Hanna and Senator
Hale, watching with hungry eyes every uG-
tail of the game rs 1t proceeds. They want
10 see that the noncr of their country,
which they have placed at not less than
$li 1850 900. ia maintained.
1t is pretty hard Just now 20 figure on
the value OF The life of Jack Tar For
The most part they are reckless fellows
who have dritted SO far from home that
they have no home at all. and a lot of them
are gnitless of ever having recn born In
this country. Some of them are bIave
men, some are PERSONALITY patriotic, and
some go into me thins inst Tor the money
and the fun thet liz "a II. 8u, they'll all
fight and they all wear the same uniform.
and they all hope for war because war is
their only profession, and they are uiv-
hat al oh W hat hn
can do. Among the whole lot there Ism
one who does not really love his ship
above himself and who wol.in defend her
IN honorable warfare until there WAS moth
ing lett TO defend. Among the whole lot
there isn't one who would not ct L Whole
years pay that his ship can and would
whip any other ship afloat.
But when 1t comes 20 differing with
Spain as to these Jack Tars at so mach
per head, the American government has
nothing to go by. she knows what they |
did under Paul Jones on Lake Erie and |
under Captain Lawrence on Lake Cham
plain, and she may guess thoir lighting |
value when she recalls the history OF the
Merrimac and the Monitor AMI the Kear
sarge and the Alabama. In those days,
however, n mans status in International
and when he Was killed. his ,ouniry d,I
nor tbinl II nj, anfrIaient nat ~ should
erect dollar mark over Nm for a nonu-
mani Tbnv pguollv enlisted another man
in his Mace and started ,,i,, ar v,iih
bullet in his musket for the enemy who
lad spilled the blood that was then the
con,mnn hlool Of all
If is a Iittle d,fficrit 10 imo.,in., George
Washington and King George " fishing
NJ the bodies OF drowned marines and feel
inc Of the water-soal,ed uniForp,s IN 500
vhat botb sides MA last In h,ttIa Ana
ye, nrlforms cost moro IN ,hoso dave ma,
nov do now, II 10 I,ttin d.f,ic"lt 10 IN
zinc t,rorga wgsbinclnn eavin, tn b,s
.co1 ala onen,v. "Neil v,,,r majesty IN
.sI,o pi,oo and "a to,. al, NE but
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lnd ro cnn III onass Win ,yhnt sotisfac-
ion ,bo hro,.a noon,o an 10Th eiIcs ar hat
mo ,,or,d u .vc accontAI tho onnn,nce.
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curse PRESIDENT Mchihlsy can estaphsh