Pleasantville weekly press., 1898-06-08


''oN TO VICTORY.
THE people of Boston will not be able
to sleep nights until they are sure
that Cervera's feet is at the bottom OF
the sea.
THERE must be bad management OF
our military affairs, somewhere,
when Pennsylvania regiment, destined
for the PHILIPPINES, cannot drill for want
of shoes.
SPAIN has eight million people who
- cannot read. Wouldn't they be
some mad if they could, when they read
of Commodore Dewey's little circus at
Manila
u DMIRAL SAMPSON called for eight
volunteers on mission that meant
almost certain death to every man who
went. Four hundred responded from
two ships. That shows the kind of stuff
the American navy is made of.
DONsT make any apologies if yon
~ find a ''lump" rising in your
throat, and the brine soaking through
your eyelids if you happen to witness
some of the pathetic scenes incident to
the departure of the soldiers for the seat
of war. 1t is nothing to be ashamed OF
and it shows that you have got a
heart.
TT is announced from Washington
that Speaker Reed has consented
that the question of the annexation OF
Hawaii shall come before the House for
discussion. There has been time
when the members of the United States
House of Reprc sentatives wouldn't con-
sent to be choked off by their Speaker
and denied the right of free speech, but
that was before the day of "Tom." Reed
and the Sugar Trust.
IT is a stupendous job to eqrip, move,
and provision great army of men,
and no one not having a practical
knowledge of it can form any idea OF
the magnitude of such an undertaking.
Still the country is impatient and wants
10 see some immediate results. We
have larger number of soldiers in
camp, to-day, than fought upon the
historic field of Waterloo, and it is not
unpatriotic or unreasonable to insist
that the government shall make some
progress with the war. Thus far thert
seems to have been most laundering
and delay.
THE representatives of the Standard
Oil Monopoly have given notice
that they will resist the imposition, by
the United States Government, of tax
of one-fourth of one per cent. per annum
upon their business, to help pay the ex-
penses of the war. Last year tn,
Standard Oil Trust divided over thirty
one millions in profits, and its President
John d. Rockefeller, is worth two hun
dred millions. What shame to think
of taxing such poor fellows Let the
farmers and the laborers pay it. They
won't mind it.
n LTHOUGH Old Spain is said to be
A on her last legs she is putting up
a pretty stiff game of bluff. Her "dis-
appearing" feet which has been reported
about everywhere between Nova
Scotia and South America, has
frightened good many people out
OF their senses and even our government
officials would rest easier if the whole
concern was at the bottom of the sea.
As buffers and all around liars the
Spaniards are hard to beat, but when it
comes to shooting cannon and hitting
something the Yankees can teach them
their alphabet. Their Workmanship
was so poor, during the first days fight
at Santiago, that Fighting Bob"
Evans contemptuously remarked, "they
couldn't hit id thing but the
ocean, and they couldn't hit that if it
wasn't SO big"
THE sinking and blowing up of the
: steamer Meyvi'nac in tho harbor of