The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-29

st. Louis Republic: In ordinary affairs
boards are better in council than in com
mand. In war, direction by boards Is
ridiculous. 1t is an enterprise which
should be left in ali essential functions To
| the few especially trained in the trade
| I our successful soldier is a strate2ist as
well as a fighter He proves possession
Of the one quality as quickly as the
other, And ne can no more be directed
in the use of one than the other.
Louisville Dispatch: The latest lie man
ufactured and disseminated by the gold
bug press is the statement that Hon wa :
lam J. BRYAN was defested for ca plain
of the company which he raised in Lin
coin, Neb. Mr.. Bryan was not cendi-
date for captain of the company and re-
fused to allow the use of his name in that
connection. He could have been elected
captain If he would have allowed 1t, but
not without goldbug opposition. Mr..
| Bryan was commissioned by the gov
ernor to raise regiment, ana could hold
his comm ssion as colonel without an
election in the regiment. So this is a
perfectly transparent lie on its face. but
it nevertheless answers the purpose OF
that class of paid patriots who are hired
by Wall street TO misrepreSent every man
VINO has not been worshiper at the
shrine of the golden calf.
Omaha World-Herald: We hasten to
inform our good friends whose eyes are
upon the, Philippines that Greoge Dewey.
not the board of strategy. is running
l.
in mind they will be enabled to avoid
some almighty serious complications.
Los Angeles Herald: The Army and
Navy Journal is looking for a man who
believes that Dewey could have accom-
plished what he has if he had been at the
end OF wire running into the navy de-
partment. When discovered 1t will be
found that he is a hidebound partisan.
who believes the president can do no
wrong; man who would prefer national
defeat under a Republican administration
to a national triumph under democratic
auspices; man who recognizes this as
Republican war to be waged by and for
Republicans, and who imputes disloyal
motives TO every one daring TO criticise
the administration.
San Francisco Examiner: The main
thing now is to get a force as promptly
a reflection on the ability of the govern
rnent that it is % days after the brilliant
action that cleared the Spanish fleet from
Manila bay before the first detachment
of troops is sent 10 his relief. Let there
he no more delay in making secure our
position at Manila.
Denver Republica1: The color of the
Spaniards is the same as that of the gold
bugS-yelloW. w. J. Bryan. who will COM
mand Nebraskas third regiment of volun-
teers. will fight the Spanish yellow as gal
lanty as he has always done the gold
bug saffron.
New York Timeslddt is high time that
the president provided himself with a Sc
knows or man who knows that he does
not know, and is willing to defer to those /
who do know upon una tiers within the
scope OF their own profession. The cor
duct of the war department has been and
IS worse than discouraSing. 1t is serious
ly threatening.
n
has been found with the government for
not shipping troops to the Philippines
earlier On May l; three weeks last Sun
a week later the account of the battle
came from that commander and the need
Of Of. troops to enable him to finish his work
ments were dispatched Immediately th..
moral effect would 0have been vastly
greater than it will be now This evf- !
dence OF Vigor and preparation would
Europe. have inspired terror in Madrid !
ana might have started revolution In /
spain. It would probably have brought !
pressure on Spain from her friends i'm /
France. Germany ana Austria which |
would have constrained the Sagasta min |
ltsry, or whatever other regime took its |
pace. 10 abandon Cuba and give up the |
New York Journal. Senior Capdepon. |
the Spanish minister of the interior. adj |
hiltS tnaL MS country has little or no /
ehance OF success in this war. but he |
holds that Spain is in the position of a |
iuelist. bound to defend his honor against |
he gross insults OF a mere powerful an |
-d6ohlSt, VINO. although he is convinced |
hat the result is almost certain death /
yet feels the force of the principle of |
noblesse o5lige.' That may not be very |
good practical sense. but at least it de- |
nands the respect due to high-minded If
somewhat fantastic. courage. But-as
SIMPLE Yankee pigs. unlettered in the I
llceties of the code we ask for inforna-
lon-is II customary for duellist en-
sased on mortal combat to defend his
honor by lodging from tree to tree?