The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-04-20
INGALLS, ON WAR.
Says Spain is in the Last Stages
of Decay.
Our Victory Will Be Almost
Without Glory.
YOUNG MEN ONLY
Fight and Win Battles, Grant
Was But 80
TFhon Ha En<arod A. n:-:I
When He Entered the Civil
War, Sheridan 81.

by Former Senator John ]. Ingalls,
Washington, D. c.. April 16.-Sagas-
! ia, Weyler, Blanco and De LONE learn
ed with joy last night that the senate
had adjourned without action, and that
there was to be another day of brilliant,
| eloquent and learned debate. This de-
| ferred the concurrence or disagreement
| of the house till Monday.
Then the president has ten days for
I consideration, which will give the Eu-
| ropean powers ample time to intrigue
| and conspire and threaten to intervene,
| while Senior Polo arranges for the pur-
| chase of munitions of war in our mar
kets and their shipment in foreign bot
toms to the coasts of Spain
On Thursday night the British steam
er Hampstead is reported to have sailed
from Norfolk with 5000 tons of Ameri-
can coal for the bunkers of the Maria
Theresa and CrfstobaI Colon and the
torpedo fotiIIa at St Vincent
The agents of Spain are purchasing
mules at Kansas City and Quartermas-
ters' supplies in Baltimore and New
York Gun foundries and powder mills
are running day and night, and a new
armada is darkening the seas
The longer the delay the better Spain
will be prepared for war when it comes.
Fighting as she must, at an immense
out fuel, her fleet will be helpless, and
she will have neither ships to fight nor
transports on which to convey the ma
teriaI Indispensable to military opera
lions on shore
Without disparagement it may be
said that no new argument has been ad-
vanced, no additional facts presented.
no vote changed by the discussion this
week None can be- The case is made
up. The evidence is all in
The people have rendered their YER
dict There is no delirium or frenzy for
war. The bravest men dread war most,
but the ''cankers of calm world and
a long peace are worse than war, and
discouraging as it may be to the moral
fSt or the eccleSiaStic, the man or the
nation that does not resent an insult,
demand reparation for an injury, and
make the wrongs of the helpless his
own, becomes the object OF either COM
passion or contempt
1t is not wise to undervalue an enc
my but the most competent military
critics do not consider Spain capable OF
maintaining even a formidable defen-
sfve war Certainly she can land
armed force in our territory We have
no vulnerable colonies nor outlying pos
sessions and dependencies to defend
Operations must be confined to the
sea and Cuba Our harbOrS are pro-
tected. Our fleets are equal to hers and
can be indefinitely reinforced In pop
uIation and resources We are so rnucn
superior that victory would be well nigh
destitute of glory Spain has passed the
grand clirnateric of nations, and is in
the stage of seniIe decay We are in the
J1ucouquered and indomitable vigor OF
Iustv adolescence, and thrice armed be
cause we have our quarrel just
Judging by the campaigns of the last
three wears, it does not seem doubtful
that Phil Sheridan or Stonewau Jack
son with a corps of 10000 men could
have have ridden from Cape MazI TO
Cape San Antonio and driven Spanlards
and Cubans together into the gun
have Sh6r1C2nS OF
Jacksons now is not disclosed, but the
emergency generally brings the man;
Successful wars are fought oy Ine
Young NAPOLEON was conqueror- OF IL
aIv at Of and Alexander died at IS. AT
the beginning of the war Tor the = mon non
Lincoln was 81. Grant 3s. Logan 50, NC
PharsOn 80 Sheridan 81, sherman Al,
LiIpatrick 25 Custer p, RoSecranS AZ,
Thomas A. Meade IS, Stonewa1 JACK
son az while Lee and Johnston, the old
est on either side to reach d1st1nct1on,
v-ero "a Farragut the veteran of the
navy was 60. and Worden, the nero OF
the Monitor, was 43- General mics and
wear. but the treaty of peace viii. no
doubt. be signed before their birthdays
come
of time and the dangers and compica-
ton that accumulate with every hour
of delay the prolonged, difuse. and
Ieisurely interlOcution IN the senate TO-
day was absolutely unintelligibIe. Were
it for a struggle for party advantage it
could be conprehended; but partisan
shin is acknowledgements, Popu-
lists and Republicans are United
Not only are the SpaniardS obtaining
great advantage by this waste and
consumption of the hours but the busl-
ness of this country suffers from the
uncertainty and indecision of congress
upon trivial and unimportant detalls OF
I,fraseology. punctuation. and etiquette
It is reported that the president IS anx-
ions for immediate action one way or
the other and the house is so impatient
that it refused to adjourn TINS aIter-
noon but took a recess till 10 on Mon
dav morning The effect is to continue
this legislative day over sunday, IN or
der to be readyfto act upon the resoIu-
ton passed by the senate at the earnest
moment. and without interference from
the regular order of business
The friends of recognition are sangu-
ms of success. and its opponents init
mate that should the president consid-
az the senate resolution an infringement
uDon his constitutional prerogat1Ve he
will be at liberty to ignore and d1sre-
gard it and act in his own time and his
own way
In the tumuIt and clash and collision
of ouiniou in such a passionate crisis
changes are Kaleidoscope IN their rapid
i+V and it is impossible to foreteI1 the ac-
zion of the house, because the members
have formulated no course and have no
fxed purpose. The tendency will be to
disDose of the matter at once on any
basis which does not require too great
a sacrifice of pride and self-respect-
STARVE THE SPANIARDS.