Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1898-08-04
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Ia the End in Sight.

During the past week Spain has sought to
end the war and negotiations to that end
have progressed rapidly.
The prompt response made to SPANS
advance is crcdi,able to President Mckinley
and the very apparent iudisposition TO fur,
ther humiliate a foe that has not only been
solnd,y whipped. but has shown undoubted
courage, when given opportunity to display
it, is altogether to be commended Spain
and the remainder Of continental Europe
will thus learn other things concerning the
American Nation, of which they have re-
NAMED in ignorance.
They will have learned two lessons that
will serve them in making correct estimates
of us In the future: first, that we are nation
of fighters when the pressure of events forces
us to that arbltrament: second, that we arc
not the bumptious and refractory parvenue
that lcses bis head when success comes to
him, but that civilizlng agencies have
wrought out effects here as there.
The demands made upon Spain, viewed
from an American standpoint, are liberal
vet lust: as viewed from the European etand.
point, while not SO confessed, Will be, that
we have been liberal to the point of folly, if
we are to judge them by their actions under
similar conditions. 1t u.s. however, almost
impossible for us to find a parallel case in
modern European wars, there having been no
victorious country SO wholly independent in
action as we may be in this Gaze, that great
stumbling block to territorial! expansion,
"balance of power" always coming into the
path of the victor to prevent the rending to
pieces of the vanqulshcd. If any of them
had Spain at their mercy, with so little con-
Germ about balance Of power as we, Spain
would suffer far more at their hands than at
ours and to believe this, is to make us all
love our liberalizing institutions the more
and to be prouder of them.
That Spain has enough of it we are sure,
and that we as people are glad rather to
conclude an honorable peace, than to choose
horrid war, that brave acts may be recorded
brilliant victories won and names be written
on the scroll Of fame. We favor holding the
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our duty to give benighted people the ben
eft of the liberalizing influence of American
institutions, as for conquest or gain, but if
President Mckinley concludes a peace that
holds Cuba and Porto Rico and insures a
better government in the Philippines, VIC
shall be more than content, for, duty or no
duty to benghted people, we value the
first drop OF American blood higher than the
last drop, of people who show no more
sense of gratitude than Garcia in Cuba and
Agunaldo In Luzon.
Let the end come.
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Personal Mr.. and Mrs Spurrcr of
Wetherdsville, Baltimore County are visit
ing at Mr. John Roots.
Rev. G. A, Whitmore and wife left on
Wednesday morning for Lancaster and other
points.
Mr.. Chas and Miss Salie Foreman of Bal.
tlmore are visiting at Aurora Cottage.
Mr.. ]. G. Cassell of Philadelphia is visit
Ing relatives in this place.
Miss Anna Miller of Middleburg, is visit.
ing Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Creeger.
Rev. Weber and family Of Baltimore are
summering in Thurmont
Miss J. E, Lynn, who has been in York,
Pa, for the past year, has returned home,
accompanied by her cousin, Mrs. G.. r.
Slough, who will spend some time among
friends in Thurmont, Frederick and Woods.
b0ro.
Mr. j. l. Miller, wife and number OF
their summer guests, of Creagerstown, spent
Tuesday evening with Mr.. p, N. Hammaker
and vile OF this phase,