The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-07-23
SEND HIM ALONG.
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The London Spectator, which has
held the clearest view Of the Hispano-
American conflict says that if the
American is loud and boastfuI, ne is
quiet. decided and fearfully determined
in action When an American swaggers
with revolver somebody is apt to get
killed. That paper asserts that nothing
can be more inapt than the Spanish
management Of the war and nothing
more respectable than the peasant-like
stubbornness with which the Spaniards
accept the awful consequences of their
inaptitude Their fleets have been ut
terly neglected, their armies starved,
and while their representatives grow
grandiIoquent, their queen contem-
plates flight and their generals threaten
pronunciamentoes. Peace under such
circumstances cannot be sanely reason
ed about or even urged. Spain as an
entity is alive but torn and distressed
beyond expression. Her people are
wholly unaware that they are beaten
and cannot therefore understand why
their country may not yet triumph.
AS for the financial and pecuniary con-
ditions, they do not seem to care
whether it's ruin or otherwise. The
only kind Of peace that they can COM
prehend is for the piratical American
to agree to go home.
For these reasons, because of this
state Of affairs, has President McKin-
ley determined to carry the war into
Spain. There is no other way of con-
vincing the Don, and Europe ought to
see that Watsons' squadron is no bluff
but serious business and a military
necessity.
This new position, this unexpected
turn of affairs. as the Eagle empha-
sized yesterday, astonishes Europe. If
American guns should destroy BARGE
Iona. if the American navy can block
ade Cadiz, then American ships can
menace AIarseilles or a hundred other
European cities. Hence the fury among
the ruling heads and classes of France,
Germany, Italy and Austria, hence the
danger of King Bits administration If
Dietrich should make the mistake of
shooting at an American vessel in
Manila bay, and hence the trouble
which threatens to grow out of the
fact that the Spanish governor general
of Manila issued a proclamation that
the German fleet would not permit
Dewey to lombard the city of Manila
There has been more danger from the
in Manila bay than there ever
could be in an attack on Santiago
Porto Rico or Havana. But for the
Of the Philippine situation
there would not be such a pressing ne
cessity TO send Watson into European
waters. The fact that our incompar-
able navy has sunk two fleets and |
slaughtered thousands with but the
loss Of a sick man in the one engage
ment. and the killing of another in the |
second, has. unaccountably, failed to
impress either Spain, Germany or
France; therefore Admiral Watsons /
expedition becomes practically man
datory. w2th Admiral Dietrich in Ma |
Mia bay is Prince Henry, the brother Of !
the Emperor Of Germany. and Manila
must be forced TO surrender in tie face
Of and in spite Of such menace. or 9TH !
erwise Deweys' victory goes for
naught
The American people confidently ex-
pect President Mckinley to stand By /
his guns by sen5Ing Watson into the |
Sea, though all the
world should stand aghast in protesta- /
ton