The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-09-02
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Captain Edward Wright Brady's Current Review
Of Matters and Things at Washington

far reaching growing grow out Of the military OPP
eraons at and Santiago be lost may
arise for the time being to distract the attention Of the country
the main point The nation that gathered up army patriots
unframed and impractical within plunged into
against ancient European kingdom has emerged giant
power and Colossus stature The country that the
avd then by two great peaceful today
tides of four The flag that few weeks ago
gun sunset
The marvel is altogether that all this brought
period Of time measurement less than that occupied century
ago raversng the Atlantic but that required army
number than engaged and conquest and that
this army produced the capuaon of larger better equipped
well enenched force the enemy thus achieved
end the conflict The American army before Santiago represented
but oneour houandh the population of the United States and
losses battle less than eight per of it's number
being notably than that of the Federal army any
poant pitched battles of the civil where the loss averages
anywhere from IS to 43 cent Besides all this the ratio Of
tay at Santiago about and half of hit
while in the sixties it was as one to FIVE
facts universally known furnish
eugent reflex for the extraordinary array national
consequence have flowed almost rapidly than it
been possible estimate them Thus where recently the line of
wa literally,
is roughly stated about 16ooo and where lately line
soourn $500 miles would have terminated territorial of this
continent the traveller may go forth 900 miles by land and
find the flag ofhis country masthead
frma And from estimated population OF 0O000O the
country three months has attained annexation and conquest
ia sum total approximating 85,0oO,o00 inhabitants.
And yet all these tremendous consequences have about
result Of pungg headong much might cast him
se bndy pit night The god Of battle dashed in the
peace flaming fiery
body had expected his coming and nobody ready for him The
Cuban issue had been the bane quarter of the century, the
ter year looming excitement corruscang while flicker
dying Administrations torment
ed pepexed by the Bancho ghost Anean
had squmed and squeezed and slipped from its tolls
besetng and satanic subject that lived
haunt the American and to hunt the high
chosen administrators to hound and annoy them
of the nrmnabe Cuban question Every preceding
just where they had found glad indeed
could be let go of and got away from
When the present Administration Office there
counsellor the
regime chosen for his martial predictions his genius
warfare The Unsuitable and pussan horde that waays
hand betmes with the coming Mckinley
these after place neither gaowgasses
painting battle but hercuean only the strife for soft jobs
humping salaries There not all the lot Yet every
the country knew the spook the Cuban question hid
ing away the cloakrooms closets
stalk forth with startling stride And might have and kick
thundered all wanted and vanished and saked again.
had been its wont for o those years. except for the bastard
the stiffness Of winters night dipped his deadly the
Of the aine That The Cuban spook
er for but phantom Of the past The thing before
the country that human power diplomacy could
avert-WARt that no possible device could deferl
that army army for battles and victories
deeds and conquest assembled
from peaceful and transformed into irresistible phaanxes of
that in thirty days. Two hundred and eighty
be swung Of the everyday pursuits
thousand swung fighting flag great
onoong hold ao against the disciplined bataons
empire the Old Wod And hundred different things
be done make citizen soldier sixty days. and these
things had be done hundred and eighty thousand
transform hundred and eighty thousand civilians
into two hundred and eighty thousand soldiers!
country wonder mistakesany
Mistakes you w And there mistakes there would be
degree prvation suffering selection appoint
assignments inevitable Errors Of judgment not