The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-06-01
WE ARE A UNITED, PATRIOTIC. PEo-



PILE
And, best of all the people are united.
patriotic, with fixed purpose and undaunt-
ed resolution, animated with the spirit that
has inspired the heroes or every history
and the martyrs OF every religion Pos
sibly Doweys success has made the peo-
pie unjust in their estimate of naval opera
tons in Cuban waters. He set up an un-
app: oachable standard. His example Will
be the despair of all rivals. His feat can
not be repeated, but 10 outsiders and lay
men 1t seems that Cervera has made mon
keys OF Schley and Sampson either by SUI
perior suttlety In maneuver and strategem
or through tho intervention OF the mys-
terious war board" which sits daily in an
upper room In the granite pile at Seven
teenth street, with maps and charts and
scales and compasses and red and black
pins to guide the whirlwind and direct the
storm. II is easy to criticsc and cheap 10
cavil, but with the best disposition it is diff
hcult to avoid Il suspicion that the war
board is an cXcrescence Theories and
problems and calculations are well enough
In their way, but war is not an exact
science, and the power to compose learned
treares does not necessarily imply the
power TO plan successful campaigns
Caesar was one of the few who have been
equally great with the sword and the pen.
DEWEY'S EXPEDITION LlKENED TO
THAT OF THE ARGONAUT.
Dewey disposed of the Asiatic fleet with
out the assistance of the war board Quite
likely the Atlantic problem was different.
but in these waters the Spanish fotilla has
been in more widely separated places at
the same time for II longer period than any
expedition since the Argoraut sailed o
for nj " n
eopticon performance. with dissoiving
views, on the ocean as screen. hitting
from Cadiz to Cape Verde, to the Canaries.
to Newfoundland TO Santiago de Cuba. to
San Juan, 10 Venezuela, with visionary
bombardments OF the New England coast,
Savannah and Galveston thrown in. 1t has
teen prodigious success.
The b0nkera of Boston one day asked
permission to remove their deposits TO the
interior OF Massachusetts in u shiyer OF
trepidation mt Ell impending attack from
ironclads that were reported by the next
bulletin to lie at the pillars of Hercules.
CERVERA'S SHIPS LIKE THE BALL OF
THE THlMBLE- BIGGER.
General Miles had his baggage checked
ana his horses loaded and his sleeper on
the track. ready to start for Florida at 10
o'clock one night. two weeks ago, but the
war board slipped another slide into their
htereorticon, and the general is here yet,
and the invasion of Cuba indefinitely post
pond. The trouble with Cervera is that
his ships are never where they ought TO be.
They are like The ball of the thimble-
rgger at county fair, always under the
wrong cup. But there is one consolation
the Oregon is safe. Where no one is
allowed to know But she is safe. 80
much is ceriain--after her voyage OF a.
600 miles without lcosenng a nut or a
bolt She Is out of harms way at las
Why she was not left in the Pacifu TO
reinforce Dewey Is past knowing. except
by the war board. but she is safe. and can
now take part in the great international
regatta. John J. ingalls,.