The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-05-29

read but little, do not know that tn
hesi,ating president who mail,
catches up with the public decision Il
marked for his wisdom.
BY and by our nation will digest THU
war as a daily matter, like the oldel
nations which have preceded us and
which fight p~hilosophically. Then Nc.
kiniey will have the reins of war In
MS hands and IL his courage perse-
veres. he will be marked up high
among leaders.
The great model of this government
is not Napoleon, but Washington
whose policy was Fabian. The aban-
doned education of Mckinley is now
coming to him In the great war events
so IL Is coming to our h~emispherical
society, which has never seen the 9TH
er side OF the world except on a shop
ping or tourist expedition. 1t is a deep
reflection on the American nation that
with Mexico, Cuba and South Amer
lea touching Ii, we hardly teach Span
ism anywhere but at West Point and
cannot go to Cuba. a nights journey
from US, and say one word to all those
people who gave us nearly a hundred
millions OF trade.
Already the war has turned a flash
light upon Europe. Many young men
before this war is over will
see Spain n the Mediterranean. If
is altogether improbable that the Span-
lard VIII come to his senses until the
mines he set off at Havana will ex-
plode I'm Malaga, Cadiz. Carthagena
and Barcelona. Then he will feel that
IL is not Cuba alone that is being
gored.
Equally will fall to the ground our
ingenious demonstrations that we have
no possessions but those at home-that
we are an exception among men. and
not web-footed. that we could not do
anything with the Philippine sands, al
though Spain, in all her degradation.
has kept them up.
While Germany flibusters in China
for a port and territory in order to re-
leve her ~engorged manufactures and
agriculture, we expect to swap jack
knives with each other. like the Chi
nese, for the next Confucian thousand
years. We expect to take the part of
China. and let Europe handle the rest
of the world.
The American merchant is a block
AIDED donkey. o can hear him bray
in his cavern against a war which an
his corner in fodder.
DIR. Henry A. Robbins of this city is
nationally known for his original lee
lures upon the venereal poison. He
'o'' NV i'Ntity thdt. III Ills ODlnlOn. |
all paresis Is from that source, and not
from excuses. |
But 1 was especially interested in
what he told me about the Latin race
during the French commune. Al that
DR.. Robbins lived at the Amer
lean legation with Minister S~winburne,
the ancient friend of his parents. Rob
bins was also a surgeon for the COM
army. He said:
'"Thp cpxNa rbice Of tho E,rapob - N
after it entered Paris was most on
temptible. To cross a street they would
sneak in squads, instead of moving in
bold column. One barricade they
sneaked to tax was supplied with |
water and material only by two wo-
men. | never was more surprised than
at the al of courage of Theirs SOL
diery. and ii was matched by their
,owardly assassinations after resist
ceased. In my opinion the Ger
mans had thrashed all the courage out
them. The Spanish are of the same
race, n | have as little faith I'm the
of their valor. They are
great on mines and assassinations, but
The courage of war is not there"
Before you leave France set off all
he mines" wrote Cardinal Alberoni
so years ago to his minister i'm France,
who was experimenting a conspiracy
o plunge France into a civil war. AL
)eroni tried to secure the person of
he French minister i'm Spain to hold |
linn for his own minister's safety while |
setting off all the mines"
In the end the English fleet sank
spain's before any declaration of war.
Has Spain improved any since that
20 Peter, Peter!" said the Cal
pin of Grenada. when Peter the Cruel
Wrapped and assassinated him. This
small conduct for a gentleman"
The rolling of Regulus, the Roman,
own a hill in a spiked barrel for not
occurring. a peace from Rome. is emil
emily Spanish. n the press dis |
atches Madrid is now imposing upon
he English and American newspapers
Spain as the holy liar of the
She cannot read and therefore
es. Education does not lie. because il