The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-25
STATE PRESS OPINION.

me Cubans. in the meantime, are wonder
ing when the pie is going to be passed.
Plymouth Independent
Uncle Sam has been doing pretty good
job of threshing this season and has reaped
fairly good crop.-MiddIetow News.
Spain is talking all around the peace ques-
ton 1t is hardly possible that she has lost
uncle Sans addresS.-Lafayette Courier.
Colonel Bryan says he is only a novice in
the art of war. What is the cause of this
unusual modesty? Why, the colonel has
been studying tactics at least month.-La-
fayette Call.
Farmers all over the West are so busy
harvesting and paying off mortgages that
Democratic calamity howlers are having a
hard time to get word in edgewise.
-Muncie News.
When Spaniards get it through their
heads that the terms Of peace will be die
tated by the United States and not by Spain
there Will be more probability of peace.
Goshen Times.
For our part. we prefer to ascribe to every
man who went into the army the highest
need of praise. and to credit him with being
actuated al all times by the noblest and
best of motives.-Angola Magnet.
General Skaters heroic followers deserve
a summer vacation and the news that they
are to be sent to the mountains around
Santiago for a good long rest will meet
everybody's apprenticeship Bend Tribune.
The people of the United States have I'M
dertaken to vindicate the cause of the
Cubans before the world, but they will not
he able to do it unless the Cubans show
themselves worthy of such VindicatfOn.
Evansville Journal.
From Santiago to San Juan; from Saint
James to Saint John. The boys will soon be
through the New Testament at the rate
they are going and their pace is setting
Spain to see something Of Revelations.
Fort Wayne Gazette.
Uncle Sam has a vast amount of mission
airy work to do in Cuba to bring the natives
up to the standard of maintaining a gov
eminent Of their own, II such a one is ever
established there independent of the United
States.-South Bend Tribune.
Several Of the powers" are manifesting
considerable interest in the Spansh-Amer-
lean trouble, just now, which may mean a
nigh and noble purpose or desire to see an
honorable peace effected or 1t may mean
what is there in the settlement for us?'
-kendallville Standard
Spain proposes to grant Cuba independ-
ence subject TO the result of a popular vote
Of the island. She has failed to learn that
a vote was taken in Washington last April
which decided that question. and 1t was a
decidedly popular vote on the part of the
United States.-Decatur Journal.
There is one thing to be said in defense
of those Cubans who do not show a proper
appreciation of the services rendered in
their behalf They have been dealing with
the Spaniards so long and have been so de-
ceived and abused that perhaps they don't
know an honest man when they see him.
-Muncie Times. ,,., s,~
While there has been the most harmonious
and united action on the part of all con-
cerned in the exciting and important trans
actions of the past few months, it is due
our wise cautious and humane President to
say that he has thus far made few If any
mistakes, and has fully convinced the world
that he is a noble, firm and safe ruler.-Clay
City Reporter.
1t is not surprising that in the first flush
of expectation following the defeat of the
Spaniards, whom they had been fighting
for long time, the Cubans should have
sought to abuse the fruits OF victory, even
though won by another. The action of the
Junto in Washington, however, is evidence
that the Cubans are ,tractahle, and can be
induced to pursue the right course.-War-
saw Times.