The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-07-05
COMMENTS OF THE PRESS.

st. Louis Globe-DemOcrat: premier
Salisbury's decadent and progressive
speech of a few weeks ago was described
in Spain as "brutally pro-Amerlcan. Inc
one which he has just made does not mer-
it this characterization. yet warm sym
pathy for the United States pervades 1t.
He speaks as the head of great nation
who is determined to preserve neutrality
between two countries which are al war,
but his words will please Spain as little
as his previous utterances did. 1t is i'm
Dortant for the United States that Eng
land shall maintain a rigid neutrality. Tor
the smallest breach ON her part IN ald OF
this country would instigate Germany,
France and Austria to confer faVorS on
Spain in their interpretation OF their neu,
trality obligations. What the united
States desires is to have all the nations
keep their hands off.
New York Commercial-Advertiser The
German emperor has sense enough not 10
mistake the United States for Japan. Inc
error would cost him his throne They
who remember the firing on Sumter can
conceive only dimly the way the Amer
at the American flag, under any imagin,,
able circumstances. That blaze burned
until it destroyed an old and rooted in
stitution and changed profoundly the MS u.s.
destroyed the proudest throne of Eu-
rope. ana changed profoundly the history
of the world by setting VI. the German
republic. Americans have fought unwtl-
linsly with kindred on both sides of the
sea. but the world has never seen the
nation reused against an alien aggressor.
1t would be a dramatic spectacle.
ST. Louis Republic; The German com
mercial interests are well protected in
the Philippines. There are ten German
mored cruisers at Manila. If Germany
should give this measure of protection to
its citizens in other parts of the world
there would not be enough room in both
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German navy to maneuver in.
New York World: In regard to the
new revenue law there has been a com
plete breaking down in some of the ad-
ministrative departments-an utterly IN
eXcusable breakdown The new law i'm
peratively exacts- that stamps shall be
bought and affixed to proprietary articles,
to bank checks to stock transfer agree
ments and to a great variety of docu-
ments But the government is wholly in
capable of supply the stamps required.
San Francisco Examiner: The powers
of continental Europe have undoubtedly
been restrained from active interference
in the war by fear that any overt act
on their part would precipitate an invinci-
bic coalition between this country and
England. Austria would like to help
Spain because of the family relationship
existing between the rulers of the two
countries; France has a racial sympathy;
Germany's Unsuitable appetite for colo
NAL possessions has furnished an incent-
i've for interference by that country. Yet
one and all are restrained from active
measures by the fear of England.
Boston Journal: 1t seems to be as good
as settled that President E. Benjamin An
drews is to go to Chicago. He has won
his fight for freedom of speech, but it cost
him large part of his usefulness in his
present position. Brown, as we'll as Am
herst, will now have to select a head.
Kansas City Star: The American SOL
der in a new country is an explorer and a
promoter. He will spread himself all over
Cuba and learn all about the island, its
present and possible resources. A few
weeks hence, through the letters of the
soldiers, more viii be known of Cuba
than all the tourists. scientists and cor
respondents have ever told. Each and
every soldier will examine some portion
of the country and report. Each will set
out the chances for business investments
in the island when the war is over. If
Cuba is to be regenerated in a business
way the operation will be found to have
begun with the landing of General Shat
ter S army. ~,rr%