The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1898-08-20
london TIMES ON M,ktNLEY.
Has Kept His Finger Or the Public
lsulae...COnnlment au Navy

has AepG h1n Finger On SaaC
rlllse.--C0lnlment On Nav
and Army.
London, Aug. 18.-Tlie Times tins
morning comments e%ditorially upon
the generous universal recognition OF
the part which President Mckinley
has played throughout the war be-
tween the United States n SPAN,
and says:
IF foreign observers might pre-
sumo TO have nm opinion upon his on
duct, it would probably be that PRESS
dent Mckinley has kept his fingers
constantly upon the national purse
and has known how to stimulate and
direct national thought without out
running it's movement.
Everything has been done in n
open; every move has been discussed
as o possibility all over the United
States before the government was r.
%revocably committed way or h
other. and the result of the cautious,
t~entative 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 a be
any higher craftsmanship for a presl-
dent governing under the constitution
of the United Stats.
whether Organism is dead or only
sleeping, whether the smaller sue
of party warfare are superseded by.
large and worthy conceptions of ma
tional policy OF only thrown for the
time into the background, there
be no doubt that the War has had and
will have a profound effect upon
American IDEAS and aims. Not only
has it 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 po-
tent influences in favor of maintain
ing the national spirit.
1.-THE Antilles themselves introduce
q novel element into American life and
open up questions upon which parties
may differ greatly and worthily.
Beyond the Antilles lies a more
difficult questionable Philippine
and that question does not end with
the Philippines themselves. These is
lands may be taken Just now as q
symbol of American awakening and
Of the entry of the republic upon a
new are which, Philippines or no
Philippines. she is henceforth bound
to follow"
Times on the situation.
The Times this morning in a sperisl
article reviewing the operation. of
the Hispano-American war says:
1.-THE fact that the war was brought
to such n speedy end was due prima-
rrily to the single of Spain's ma
val collapse. The vigor shown by the
American naval authorities and the
high quality of the naval officers
qualities inherited from the mother
country-suficed to counterfeit the
effects of Americas ~unrcadiness. The
manner in which a large number of
warships and auxiliary vessels were
rapidly equipped and manned, togeth-
er with the conspicuous ability with
which the great naval force. largely.
exSemporized, was supplied and ham
died is extremely significant.
"It is impossible to speak in the
same terms of the military measures.
The causes of the failure of the war
department to rise TO the emergency
are not yet fully known. 1t will be
interesting to see whether the people
will demand and investigation. Be-
fore Santiago, as before Sebastopol in
the Crimean campaign, unnecessary
suffering and h%ardships were inflicted
upon the troops and in both cases dis
aster was averted by the gallantry of
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-
fenses are less effective than they
were in Nelson's days.
"That they were recently attempted
on a considerable scale is probably
due to the desire to give American
seamen and gunners practice rather
than to any special prediction IN the
TART of American naval officers"