Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-07-14
TREASONABLE
NEWSPAPERS.
INFAMOUS CHARGES OF AN EAST.
ERN JOURNAL AGAINST THE
ADMINISTRATIONS
WAR POLICY.
In Ghoulish Gush the Battle at Santi-
ago is Referred to as a Skirmlsh-
Sights In and Around New
York-The Atlantic Ocean
the Grandest of All.

SOUTHAMPTON, LONG ISLAND, N. Y,
July 5.-While celebrating the glorious
Fourth here last night with magnifi-
cent fire works a bulletin was posted
stating that our loss in Cuba had been
very heavy. The report was received
with much sorrow by all and gener-
al desire was expressed that the re-
port was overdrawn. Surely those
who are blood thirsty, but stay at
home, can now celebrate. Referring
to blood thirsty newspapers the New
York Journal says:
"Of the battle of Santiago, in which
apparently 1000 brave American
soldiers have fallen, the reasonable
World yesterday said editorially:
$3.50 far as the advices up to late
hour indicate, the fighting before San
tiago yesterday amounted to little
more than q skirmish
"'In spite of the adjectives of a
Government military reporter, the
tale of casualties does not indicate
anything that can be properly called
q battle.'
elbow many Americans does the
World wish to see killed? How many
of the sons and brothers of our women
would it have laid dead on the Cuban
soil in order to crafty its nice sense
of the proportions of battle?
"The day before the World gave place
on its editorial page, among letters
ordinarily prepared by its own writ
ers, in a communication ostensibly
sent in by an outsider, literally charg-
ing the President with betraying the
army and navy, the lives of our SOL
diers and sailors and the future of our
nation to his own partisan political
ends. The Brooklyn Eagle, justly
stung to fierce indignation by so sinis-
ter an act of treason, says of this pub
lication:
"'If this charge be false, it is in
famous. If it be Infamous, the max
ing of it entails infamy on the maker
of it. The utterer of it, to- day, is the
New York World, which publishes
the charge in the form of letter in
the most prominent position after it's
articles of comment on its editorial
page. The writer of that letter is not
the utterer of that charge. He might
have written it and carried it in his
pocket for years without harm to any
one but himself. After he sent 1t to
the New York World that paper might
have put the charge into the waste
basket and have destroyed any bad
effect in it by defeating its appearance
to the public. After publishing such
a charge the World could have i'm
paired the viciousness of it by de-
nouncing it. 1t does not denounce it.
1t stars it. And thereby it gives it all
the benefit which it can confer upon
it and all the circulation which, in
reality, the World may have.'
"Hungry for the blood of our SOL
diers, lying in its malignant attacks on
the President, who is striving, with
the skill of a veteran, to win this war
with the least sacrifice of American
life, the criminal World sets an ex-
ample of wolfish and vicious disloyal-
ty appalling to honorable journalism. %
Different people have different ideas
about what is worth seeing in New
York. Just why some of the ''sights''
are worth seeing is more than can
tell.
Who annoints New York's annointed
1 know not, but that certain famous
and fortunate persons become conse-
Grated as public idols here is certain,
and the question addressed to a for
eigner runs like this:
"Have you seen the Brooklyn
Bridge, Mr.. r.Hammerstein,th the Waldorf
Astoria, the Metropolitan Art Gallery,
the Central Park statues, the roof
gardens, Abe Hummel, Tod Sloan, Miss
Lillian Russell, the Equitable building,
Henry Dixey, Marshall P. Wilder,
Manhattan Beach fireworks, Miss
Josie Hall, Queen Lavinia Dempsey,
the uptown Delmonico's and Mrs.
Frank Leslie?"
AS far as am concerned the Allan
tic ocean is not only the greatest at
trsction in the East, but in the world.
You must see it to appreciate it. ]
cannot even make stagger at de-
scribing it and shall not try. Old
ocean-it is worth travelling around
the world to see. !
One of the results of the war is the
universal celebration of the grand and
glorious Fourth of July by Americans
everywhere. Christmas and the
Fourth of July should always be ap-
propriately observed by everybody in
this country. Boys, what do these two
days stand for? You should inform
yourself and be governed accordingly.
Some people appear to havepeeuliar
views of the war and the following
editorial from the st. Louis Republic
has our hearty approval:
"There is no fun in war. II is the
most serious pursuit in which men
and nations can engage. When iron
ships 60 out to sea in search Of battle
they court death In thousand forms.
"When ten thousand men climb
mountains, struggle through under
growth and march through swampy
grass to shoot ten thousand others
who lie In armed anticipation Of their
coming; when every hill mounts
bristling fort with death streaming
from every side; when bayoneted men
climb fences, fall over rocky roads
and rush pellmell In the. face Of An
iron hail that kills one man In ten
there 10 no fun.
Gallo stricken Spain to-day there
are fatheriess children and childless
mothers who weep for men who died
In that bloody Msy-day which Dewey
wrought. Already In our own country