Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-08-20
LONDON TIMES ON M'kINLEY.
Has Kept His Finger On the Public
Puise.--C6mment on Navy
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London, Aug. 16.-The Times this
morning comments editorially upon
the generous universal recognition OF
the part which President Mckinley
has played throughout the war be
tween the United States and Spain
and SAYS:
IF foreign observers might pre-
sumo to have an opinion upon his con-
duct, il would probably be that Presi
dent Mckinley has kept his fingers
constantly upon the national pulse
and has known how to stimulate and
direct national thought without out.
running its movement.
Everything has been done in the
open; every move has been discussed
as a possibility all over the United
States before the government was ir'
~revocably committed one way or the
other, and the result of the cautious,
tentative policy is that where he
stands at this moment the president
has the whole American people at his
back.
"We do not know that there can be
any higher craftsmanship for a presi-
lltlll kONtl hlIE INV nv
Of the United Stats.
whether Organism is dead or only
| sleeping, whether the smaller issues
of party warfare are superseded by
large and worthy conceptions of ma
tional policy or only thrown for the
time into the background, there ear
be no doubt that the war has had and
will have a profound effect upon
American ideas and aims. Not only
has il renovated the idea of national
unity, impaired by the great civil
struggle, but it has supplied that
| sense of contact with external forces
which Is probably one of the most pc
tent influences in favor of maintain
ing the national spirit.
1.-THE Antilles themselves Introduce
a novel element into American life ant
open up questions upon which parties
may differ greatly and worthily.
"Beyond the Antilles lies a more
difficult questionable Philippines
and that question does not end Will
the Philippines themselves. These is
lands may he taken just now as {
symbol of American awakening anc
Of the entry of the republic upon {
new career which, Philippines or M
| Philippines. she is henceforth bound
to follow"
Times on the Situation.
The Times this morning in a spccid
article reviewing the operations o.
the INSTRUMENTATION war says:
''The fact that the war was brought
10 such a speedy end was due prima
81. - Al, -;,,u1n an,,Ga nf Gn1in'c mn
val collapse. The vigof shown by the
American naval authorities and the
| high quality of the naval officers
qualities inherited from the mother
country-sufficed to counteract The
| effects of Americas u%nreadiness. The
manner in which n large number o.
warships and auxiliary vessels were
rapidly equipped and manned, togeth
er with the conspicuous ability Will
which the great naval force, largely
extemporized, was supplied and han
died is extremely significant.
at is impossible to speak in The
| same terms Of the military measures
| The causes Of the failure of the wal
department to rise to the emergency
are not set fully known. IT will b'
interesting 10 see whether INC Po'pi
will demand and Investigation. BE
fore Santiago, as before ~Scbastopol II
| the Crimean campaign, unnecessary
| suffering and hardships were inflicted
upon the troops and in both cases dis
aster was averted by the gallantry o
the officers and men.
"While it is clear that the command
| of the sea is more than ever impor
tant. naval bombardments Of coast de
lenses are less effective than they
were in Nelson's days.
THAT they were recently attempted
on n considerable scale is probably
due to the desire to give American
seamen and gunners practice rathc'
than to any special prediction ON TIT
uart of American naval officers"