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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-05
The wANe OF A GREAT WAR.

Three little months ago thesevcolumns
helped to chorus the call to warm some
respects the most remarkable in history
and the first with foreign power for ex-
actly half century; and today we bear
the tidings of peace assured if it is not
already perfected. and whose eventuality
is TO signalize the swift return of great
and peace-loying people to placid ways.
The war has cost us precious blood and
bounteous treasure, but, like ponderous
and speeding shaft, it has shot us to the
apex of nationalities. From the modest
isolation of a neighborless republic it has
thrust us into the company of trans
oceanic states and created us giant
among glowering empires. And had it
been fertile of opportunity, as it was flu
ent of American virtue and bravery, the
parchments of fame could not have held
the record of its heroes. 1t was war at
which nc patriot can have blushed; it will
be a peace to make our manhood proud.
And to the native pride of the American,
because he is an American, is linked today
the natural regard of mankind because
America is great.
The world has viewed our every step
in all the ways of the strife. 1t has seen
an invincible nation mistaken under
shocks of arms. unruffied under foreign
menaces, unmoved amid experiences it
had not dreamed of. The eye of the uni
verse has seen its ships blaze their way
to the foreground of naval glory and its
army brush aside the soldiers of Spain as
though they were reeds. And today it
watches us as, at the threshold, we are
about to re-enter the portal of another
long and grateful interval of peace. If
our warriors had not by their deeds made
themselves known they could not be des-
ignated, and if their bronze and dustiness
dld NOT Derray tnem none would guess
how brave they are.
Soon they will all be back TO business,
plodding the old time paths with plenty
to employ them and plenty to forget. In
year or two they will begin to realize
the actual immensely of the country they
love and served, but not, perhaps, until
they have thousand times been told that
one four-thousandth of the population Of
the United States-that is, armed Am
erican to each 1000 of the people, or 30
600 troops and marines sufficient in
action to annihilate the military power
of Spain on land and sea!
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-05
SEWER THE CITY.

Aside from the alI-important question
of health, Morristown should be severed
as matter of economy. Mayor Quayle
states that the severe transforms during
the past fortnight have cost the city, ow-
ing to small and inadequate water drains,
washouts, and destruction of several ex-
pensive foundations adjacent, at least
So. 500.
In Speedwell avenue and Columbia,
Pine and Harrison streets the damage has
been serious. The drains were sufficiently
large five years ago, but today they are
not, and are also deficient in number.
Then they are only drains, and not sew
ers.
The city finances will not permit of an
annual outlay of thousands of dollars in
this direction without being crippled,
and the result is, at best, only a make
shift.
In the recent sewer discussion it was
conclusively shown that a system could
be inaugurated in this city which, when
complete, would not prove heavy bur-
den on the citizens, while its benefits
would be far reaching. We trust the
Board of Aldermen will take some decis-
i've action tonight on this important
question, which has much TODD with the
successful growth and financial manage
ment of the city.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-05
FROM SPAIN DIRECT.

Extract from a Barcelona Letter 10 a
Well Known Citizen of Morristown.
The following is an extract from let
ter just received by a prominent citizen
of Morristown, written by a we'll in
formed resident of Barcelona, Spain,
under date of July %, 1898:
Il do not know how truthfully to out
line the policy of the Spanish govern
nent. The ministry allow only such
dispatches to be published as suit its
views. They exercise the strictest CEN
sorship over the press and lead the peo-
pie blindly to their inevitable ruin. That
the people are deceived is not incredible.
One day it is announced that Watson's
fleet is at Barcelona; then Immediately
batteries of flying artillery are hurried to
the port embankment and at the foot of
the fortress. Do you know of what these
famous batteries destined to annihilate
the Yankee cruisers are composed? They
are the old guns used against the French,
the most of them spiked and mutilated
after the enemy was chased from the
realm. Let them come on now, cry the
innocent descendants of the Cid and of
Pelayo, and they sleep peacefully under
the powerful protection of these ancient
bronzes. do not think revolution pos
sible just now. They are prepared to
lose everything, even honor"
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-05
BRAVERY.

This word has many shades of meaning
and much diversity of definition, just as
an act of bravery may take on variety
of forms according to the innumerable
exigencies that call it into exercise. Sim
gularly, man truly brave must disavow
it for himself at the same time that he is
compelled to resent the slightest denial
that he is brave. This is because the twin
of genuine courage is modesty, whose
handmaidens, no less absolutely, are dig
nifty and generosity.
There never was more misconstrued,
reviled and outraged word than this lit
tie dissyllabic noun Bravery, brilliant
and prodigious in its Specification. For
instance, it will be recorded that Martin
Thorn met his doom ''bravely." That
would be just as impossible as for noto-
rious rowdy and bruiser at home to per-
ish bravely in battle, even did he enlist
and were killed. 1t is, by the way
and obviously NOT only the killed and
wounded in war who are heroes, nor do
the bullets and shells select only such.
Happily, armies like ours contain few if
any innate cowards-because in war that
is an unsafe place and happily, too, the
fatalities are small enough, by some law
of averages, to leave us lots of heroes I'M
hurt. The man who cheerfully accepts
the peril of battle. and acquits himself
without wound, is just as certainly
hero of battle, aud just as brave, as was
his luckless comrade, shot to death at his
post of duty.
Nor is it war alone, or armed battles,
that brings forth brave spirits Every
honorable strife of existence produces its
heroes; but no ignoble contest can ever
do this, because the very essence of a
brave action must abide either in the no
bility of the motive or in the entire alb
sence of motive. Brutal blindness to
danger, headlong contempt for death, in
considerate acceptance of chances as be-
tween escape and destruction these may
UO III uOIO CAdlupIcS VI DEdNOIy ludu rs
the prodigality of spendthrift the mark
of human benevolence.
There die daily, and unsung, the brave
of a thousand mighty struggles of peace,
and there daily perish, too, thousands of
generous hearts whom opportunity never
sought for the brave impulses that filled
them. And so it goes.
And yet the common, matter-of fact,
busting. whirling world knows just one
token-only one-by which it may infal-
libby distinguish really brave man. a
man whose instinct of courage will assert
itself in every possible contingency of ca
lamity or panic or death. The sister of
Lieutenant Hobson said of him: Ellis
love of our mother is wonderful and his
regard for woman borders on alteration. :"
Bravery itself. Itneeded no exploit at
Santiago haTbor to stamp this young man
the soul of courage. The man who es-
teens womankind with manly tender
ness could not be a coward, nor can he
be less than brave.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-05
MAJOR GENERAL FITzHUeH LEE.

The splendid corps of Major General
Fitzhugh Lee fingers in camp at Jack
sonville, twenty thousand strong. 1t is
composed probably of the flower of the
volunteer troops, being largely ssfirst"
regiments from many States who swarm
ed to the standard of that veteran mill
tary leader while his name, three months
ago, was on every Americans enthusiast
tic lip. Our own Second New Jersey is
with Lee. and Morris wild hope of mar
tial glory hangs upon the muskets of
Company M.
There are all sorts of real heroes, but
the armed volunteer compelled to peace
full torture in camp. with sounds and
scenes of battle hooking his i'll fortune,
is more than hero and greater than
martyr. We suspect the situation seems
more ludicrous than lamentable to the
general commanding, his military fame
long won and worn with lightness, but
to the ambitious and patriotic youth who
resigned his home and business ties, his
material affairs and prospects for his love
of country and his hope of defending her,
the restraints of camp life and constant
inaction, without the compensation of
battle even if it be unto death, is bitter,
immeasurably, unspeakably bitter.
1t is hardly anybody's fault that it is
thus at Observation-Disclosures at the stepping
off place for real fighting and only less
trying at other great troop camps because
farther removed. OF course, we all wish
an end of the war, and most of us believe
the fighting is over. We know, too, that
it will be no sort of recompense for the
sturdy ardor of our gallant soldiers with
General Lee that it may be theirs to en-
ter and occupy the evacuated lanes and
alleys of Havana, but we shall always
appreciate what they would have done
with half chance at the Spaniards, and
we can forecast for the Jersey boys royal
welcome when they get back home.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-05

SOMEBODY has discovered third moon
making its way through the heavens and
on horizontal track toward the sun.
This, by surprising all former appari-
tons, clearly indicates that new trade
mark in whiskey has taken the market.
We remember to have once observed two
moons but not three. They were also
ambling, but unsteadily. arm in arm up
among the consultations late at night,
looking for a pump. That was at Bour-
bon, Kentucky.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-05
Mr.. PIrNEYs DISCRIMINATION.

The Morris County Chronicle" makes
an authorized statement to the effect
that Mahlon Pitney will not accept the
nomination for Congress the third time.
This determination by Mr.. Pitney is to
be sincerely regretted because he is un-
doubleday the strongest man available to
the Republicans in the Fourth district.
He proved his strength at a time when
it was not generally believed that he
would come out of the fight VIGOROUSLY
He did, however, and with splendid
majority.
Should Mr.. Pitney change his mind
and accept denomination, the Republi-
cans would have reason to believe that
the Fourth district voters would repeat
their action in 1894 and 1895.
In 1894 Pitney's plurality was 1,407
In 1896 it rose to 2,977. With the favor
able conditions that are sure to surround
the Republican nominees in the cam
paign next fall. it is not unreasonable to
figure out Pitneys reelection by plur-
atty of at least 5000, should he become
a candidate.
Another reason why it is to be hoped
that Mr.. Pitney will revise his decision
is that, unless he does, the State will lose
a representative in Congress who has
been a conspicuous figure there almost
from the day he took his seat.
He received consideration by other and
older members to degree not usually
accorded to new corners. He is man
whose services the people Of New Jersey
cannot well afford to lose. State Ca
xette, Trenton.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-05

THE Summit newspapers, as well as its
township officials, are inclined to make
light of the wishes of hundreds of its
citizens concerning the telephone fran
chise. The latter are fully as ableto judge
in the matter, as are those who seem deter
mined to continue a dog-in-the-manger
policy. Several communications con-
corning the matter, which have been
received by the CHRONICLE, will appear
later.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-05

THE enormous fatalities that befeI the
company officers in the American assaults
upon Santiago were due, of course, to the
Spanish sharpshooters primarily. But,
sscondarily, every old soldier will ascribe
them to the new ''open order infantry
tactics, that reduce the danger from rap
id-fre field artillery and improved pene-
trative rifle missiles, but isolate the otfic~
ers from their men and make them easy
targets for good marksmen, Of whom the
Spanish army is shown to have possessed
many more than it was credited with.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-05
THE COMEDY OF PORTO RICO.

THERE is an element of bouffe in the
character of the Porto Rican invasion
that is destined to impress its humor on
the literature of the war. The awful
progress of the invading army was enliv-
ened by incidents of irresistible ludicrous-
ness calculated at once to demolish the
grim dignities of serious warfare. Moth
ing like it was ever known before, and
it is impossible to hold ones sides upon
reading matter of fact detail of events.
The deadly preparations for assault. the
massing of men and artillery, the picket
ing and cautious approaches, and other
ominous and prodigious auxiliaries for
a most mortal combat under the personal
command of the General of the American
army, become irrepressibly comical in
the light of all that followed when the
troops got where the Spaniards were not.
The severe temperament of General Miles
must have been frightfully tried and his
official austerity put to mighty strain.
But that is where the Falstaffian fun of
the situation takes its rise. The General
doubtless perceives that he can never in
dite an official report of his campaign
that will not read like roaring comedy.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-05

es CORRESPONDENTS. where ii is pos
sibIe to do so, will please post their letters
so that they will reach this office by Wednes-
day a. m.
ADVERTISERS are requested TO hand in
their fayors each week as early as possible.
a. Changes in Advertisements cannot
be made later than IL m on Wednesdays.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-05

THE grand little "hoodoo" battleship
Texas, after three months of laundering
glory, is in dry dock for overhauling. In
all probability, the pressing need for her
unerring gunnery has gone by for this
war, but she has won fame enough and
to spare for every gallant man aboard,
from captain to pantryman. She's a
dandy hoodoo
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-05

The Philadelphia Inquirer says of Al
miral SIMPSONS report: It reads as if it
had been written in cold storage vault
instead of under the tropical skies of Gu
ba. In it he refers to Schley by name
only once, and then as having given mi
nor order. He is willing to take
glory that does not belong to him. /.
He evidently is not fitted to command a
feet"
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-05

THOSE who happen not to have read of
the unique incidents of the entry of the
victorious Charles v. into Antwerp will
get partial inkling of them through the
newspaper accounts Of General Miles
triumphal march into the capitulated
city of Ponce, where the populace greet
ed him with drums and trumpets and a
great number actually wanted to join his
army.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-05

AS to who in chief is entitled to honor
for Cervera's extinction the people of the
country have adjudged, red tape and Of
fetal envy to the contrary, notwithstand-
ing Commodore Schley is still being av-
alanched with congratulations from all
parts of the land and from abroad, and
he says he will acknowledge every letter,
if only by line.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-05

IT is said on excellent authority that
several years ago, because of an incura-
BILE affection, part of Admiral Dewey's
liver was cut away. Dewey, then, ac-
tually demolished Montijo's squadron in
Manila bay, with only half a liver. Just
suppose he had had a whole liver do you
think the Spanish Admiral would have
been q liver today
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-05

Elephantiasis hefediosiasis" is new
disease-or new name for an old and
devastating contagion that attacks all
classes and fourishes in every cline. 1t
is better known as 'swelled-hea
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-05

THERE has been nothing since the I'M
precedented Custer massacre SO pathetic
as the humiliation of the captains of the
Twenty fourth United States Infantry.
Eleven of them laid down their lives at
Santiago in battle, and the twelfth died
of yellow fever contracted in the trenches
before that city.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-05

THE death of Bismarck removes from
life great statesman at great age. We
should have been gratifed to add, if true,
that he was great friend of America.
He was not.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-05
THE ILL-FArED TwENTYFouRrA
Every Captain of the Regiment Laid Down
His Life

Every Captain of the Regiment Laid Down
His Life
Adjutant- General Corbin was affected
deeply on receiving news of the death at
Santiago of Captain Charles Dodge.
Twenty fourth Infantry, from yellow
fever. The Captain was Lieutenant in
the same company that formed General
Corbin's first command when he became
Captain, and he looked upon him al
most as younger brother.
If anything was wanting to show the
high rate of mortality among the officers
of the American army engaged in the
battles before Santiago it is supplied by
the statement at the War Department
that, with the death of Captain Dodge,
the Twentyfourth Infantry lost every
captain of the regiment. All the other
captains had been killed in action.
The President and Secretary Alger
have not overlooked the sacrifices made
by the officers of Skaters army, and
have determined to do what they can to
provide for their families. A few vacan-
cies among the second lieutenants in the
regular army still exist. and these will
be filled by appointing the sons of some
of the officers who lost their lives on the
battlefield. The War Department is
taking steps to learn the condition of the
families of these officers.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-05
SECOND in NAVAL POWER.

AT the inception of the present war we
foreshadowed as one positive result that
at its conclusion our naval power, from
the ratio of fifth at that time. would be
advanced to second, or next to England's.
This, even at the present stage and long
before the formal conclusion of peace,
has been substantially verified. Addi-
lions in ships and armament have borne
us past Germany. then in front of us, and
close upon other foreign navies that were
far in advance of us. Physically our ca
liabilities are entirely compatible with
successfully coping with the fleets of
Italy or of France, while the prestige of
this war-greater than ever befel navy
in the worlds past-qualiies us for hope
full combat with any naval fotilla afoat
save that of Great Britain. 1t is impos-
sible, of course, to exactly compare in
experience and practice a small navy
tried and triumphant in actual warfare
with greater aggregation of ships and
guns and men entirely problematical as
to value in action, but it is equally i'm
possible to overestimate the American
advantage of having the only veteran
navy in the universe. All other navies
today are unsolved enigmas.
No one for a moment now doubts that
had Spain sent in detail hundred pow
erful warships against Dewey and Schley
the very last one of them would have
been sent to the bottom. To two Amer;-
can squadrons aggregating thirteen YES
sells Spain has lost an entire naval estab-
lishment. If we add to the nine at San
tiago and thirteen at Manila, eleven at
Nipe, eighty at Ponce and forty odd gun
boats and prizes taken or destroyed by.
the Americans, we have grand total of
153 craft of all kinds lost to Spain: and
so belonged to her navy. These out
numbered the active force of our full ma
val equipment, and yet 70 per cent of our
regular warships have not fred gun in
battle. And we consent to second place
to Great Britain in consideration of enor-
nous disparity. We are neither vain nor
wild enough to imagine that forty eight
American warships are capable of de-
vouriDg the British naval establishment
of seven hundred yet we know they
would not hesitate at any other aggrega-
ton on top of the water.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-05
CHRONICLE cARAMELs.

To PRESIDENT MCKINLEY:
By all means, Sir, to the rery last acre,
Hold the Philippines!
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-05

THE announcement that Congressman
Pitney will not accept a denomination
fills the Democrats in the Fourth District
with joy, but they may find that it was
the cause which triumphed under the
popular Pitney, and that it will triumph
again under another leader Elizabeth
.LOnrnnI
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-05

The Delaware peach crop has again
been destroyed, this time, we suppose,
by collision with an iceberg. This an
nouncement cannot possibly affect the
market price, if there are no peaches.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-05

The "Adam's press" no more proves
that the father of our race was news
paper correspondent than does the Camp
bell press prove that the original printer
was dromedary.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-05

AFTER the dog days-a red hot, quick,
sharp, hair-curling political campaign,
and then roast turkey with cranberry
ruffies. That's for Thanksgiving.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-05

WHEN the American army halted in
the streets of Yauco, Porto Rico, the peo-
pie poured out from their houses and en-
braced the troops.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-05

THE Iowa's gallant Captain, Evans, as
serts that though he ''cusses'' he prays
and thanks God Then he'll outlive his
habit.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-05

IT is observed, in connection with the
important subject of early rising, that
the mercury in the Thermometer some
times rises at midnight.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-05

How greener far than small green pip
pins is that most green of verdant mon
sters envy.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-05

THIS war has produced no songs that
will live. The last gave us many that
ought to die.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-05

The American navy discharged g. 900.
900 worth of projectiles against Moro
and its consort batteries at Santiago, and
inflicted not one cents worth of serious
damage. An exploring party, after two
days investigation, reports several large
holes that showed good gunnery, but it
pronounces the Santiago forts and batter
les impregnable to the projectiies Of war
ships and uncapturable except by the CO.
operation Of a land force.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-05

ToRAL has not yet decided as to which
of tie two is the more polite, to go home
and get shot or stay away and get rich.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-05

In the Society of the Columbian Order
we suppose August is called the "Season
of Suicides"
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-05

THORN "died gladly" the papers say.
But he was strapped down SO that he
couldn't ''kick'' if he hadn't.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-05

SKATER is getting it" all around and
for all that has gone wrong. But that is
the penalty of his success.