The San Francisco call., 1898-08-07

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 The military problems ensuing upon the declara- ton of war light and easy compared with those which come upon declaration of peace
 The two yellow and besotted papers of Hearst, re- inforced by the New York World, told the country that the Cubans had an organized government, with fiscal bureau a system of public schools, judicial establishment and all the muniments ot state t to take its place among the powers They demanded belligerent rights for this Cuban government and o lowed this by demand for its recognition outright by the United States Senators and Representatives went to Cuban waters in Hearst's yacht, his paid Commissioners and returning, in the Senate and House these members of Congress tore passion to atters in describing what they saw They exhausted the vocabulary of fattery in their ascriptions to the Cuban government. They said that all it needed arms and it would expel Spain from the island. The San Domingo negro Gomez, praised equal to Washington in patriotism and to Napoleon in mil tary strategy.
 When the President, to whom the situation known, asked for the power of intervention, these papers and their allies immediately took advantage of his reference of the issue Congress to insist upon recognition of the Cuban government They did this in the face of the of Fitzhugh Lee that there Cuban government army MT William ]. Bryan appeared in Washington to back up the yellow press and buged his followers into
 
 politics.
 The Senate thereupon declared for recognition, and only by almost superhuman exertions did the Presi- dent succeed in defeating this declaration. There was substituted for it the phrase that "the people of Cuba are and ought to be free and independent Then came war. We blockaded the island shut out food and munitions of from the Spanish centers, and sent in food arms and ammunition to Gomez, Garcia and Maso
 We fattened and equipped the Cuban army and we starved and disarmed the Spanish force. What has been the result? Gomez had no army The boast that if armed by us he would expel Spain was idle vaporing. He has shriveed into common San Domingo negro, whose patriotism is diverted from great exploits the sight of fitch of bacon or fresh watermelon. When Garcias army" was asked to help our men cut the barb-wre trocha at Santiago and assist in making roads which to bring artillery the black rascals replied, "We are soldiers not laborers
 When our boys had the trocha and left their camp to go into the hot hell of that battle where 2ooo fell Garcia noble band stayed behind and stole everything in camp, including the hospital and medical stores.
 They killed only prisoners o war the naked survivors of Cervera's fleet they ashore, and used the ammunition gave them in target practice on the corpses of Spanish officers as they loated in the sea.
 There was no Cuban army nor government, no school system fiscal establishment judiciary The patriots over whom these yellow journals and vel lower Congressmen wept and agonzed robbed the men we sent there to fight for them, and stole the medical and hospital stores, for lack of which boys have been dying, fever smitten in the swamps of Eastern Cuba
 The President was right and should have been sus- tained to the extreme of his policy. A number of Congressmen have invited themselves out oi public life and into public contempt by their indorsement of the lies of yellow journalism, and the Government finds itself loaded with the vexatious respon- sibity as the comes to close. There no Cuban government We must lick one into shape the Spanish population go into exile in fear of the loot which would follow our military withdrawal from the island the majority there will consist of negroes and their congeners. What they can do in the way of government in the tropical islands we see exemplifed in the opera bouffe states of Hayt and San Domingo, where Simon Sam and General Heureaux strut at the head of the procession, pluned like parrots.
 Yellow journalism has an account to settle with the American people Its Cuban patriots have cost good lives unnecessarily The cooperation which the yellow press said they capable of giving has been offered. Our men into battle alone, and they sickened alone, and have died alone hundreds of them because the "patrots of the yellow writers stole their medical stores.
 These yellow journals were in league with the Gu ban Junta in New York, who had printed nearly a half billion of bonds as blanket mortgage on the island, to be validated by the recognition which Mr. Bryan said would be good politics.
 The members of this Junta are the murderers of every American who fell in battle for lack of Cuban cooperation, and of every one who has died for need of what Garcias bandits stole from their camp It is to be hoped that experience with this blanket mortgage unta will be the means of denying to spec uative conspiracy any future lodgnent in the United States.
 pr. Arthur Marten sends from the Ukiah Asylum appeal to be released. Happily the court cannot way clear to oblige the doctor and yet there is desire to subject him to undue hardship If he will assent to transfer from the asylum to the peni