The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-12
NJ. DooIev on the war.

We'll. sir" said Mr.. Dooley, "confound
thin Cubians If I was Gln'ral Shafter ia
back up tn wagon in front iv tn dure an
I'd say to Gln'ral Garshy, I'd say, want
YOU an I'd have thin all down at m
station an decently booked be tn desk
sergeant before tn fall iv night. Tn i'm
pydince iv them
What have they been dom? Mr.. Hen
messy asked, according to the Chicago
Journal.
"Failin' to understand our civilization"
said Mr.. Dooley. "Ye see, ii was this way.
Gin'ral Garshy with wan hundred thou
san mems been fightin' Dravely fr to lib
oryate Cuoia. F'r two years he's been
marchin his sivinty-five thousan' men up
an down tn island destroyin' tn naughty
Spanyards be tn millyous. Whin war was
declared he offered his own sarvices an
III sa1Yices iv his ar-rmy Nv fifty thou
san men to TN United States an while
waiting FIR ships 10 arrive marched al IN
head iv his tin uhousan' men down h
Sandago De Cuba an captured cigar
facthry which they soon rayjooced 10
smokin ruins. They was holdin this po-
sidon-Gin'ral Garshy an his gallant wan
thousan' men-whiu Gin'ral Shafter ar
rived. Gin'ral Garshy immedjtiy offered
tn services iv hismself an his TWO
hundred men fr tn capture iv Sandago,
an whin Gin'ral Shafter arrived there
iv fifty Cuoians re-ready to eat at min
yits notice.
"Ginrai Shafter is a big, coorse, two
listed Taan fr m Michigan an Whin he see
Gin'ral Garshy an his twinty-fve gallant
followers, Frrout,' says he This way
he says, step lively he says an move
some w these things he says Sir, says
Ginral Garshy, dye take me f'r a dhray?'
he says. L m sojer,' he says, not a bag
/ gage car he says. 4 m "a Cuban pathrite
| an I'd lay down me life an the lives w
! III eighteen brave men iv me devoted
| r'rmy he says, but I'll be hanged if
carry a thrunk he says. IN fight whin-
! Yer It's cool he says, an they amt wan
/ Nv these twelve men here that wudden't
! follow me to he'll If they was awake at tn
! time, he says, but he says, If twas
| wurruk we were loolin' FIR we cud nave
| found il long ago, he says. 'They'se a lot
| iV it in this country that nobody's usin >
| he says. What we want, he says, is
! freedom, he says, an if We think we have
been in tn woods dodgin' tn savage CORE
| spOndint FIR two year he says, FIR IN
sake iV r-rushin' ye'er laundry home he
says us no wondher he says, that tn
r-roads firm Marinette TO Kalamazoo is
paved with goold bricks bought be tn
| people iv ye'er native state he says.
80 Shafter had to carry his own trunk,
an well il was fl him that it wasn't Gin
raj Miles, tn weather bein' hot An
Shafter was mad clear through, an whin
he took hold iv Santiago an was sendin
| out invitations he scratched Garshy Gar
shy took his gallant band iv six back to
tn woods and there tn three iv thin ar-re
now, ARMED with forty r-rounds iV cam
ed lobster an r-ready to raysist to tn
death. Him an tn other man has written
to Gin'ral Shafter to tell him what they
think iv him, an it don't take long.
well" said Mr.. Hennessy, Il think
Shafter done wrong. He might've asked
| Carshy in FIR to see the show, sem tina
he's been hangin' ar-round FIR a long time
dom tn best he cud."
1T isn't that" explained Mr.. Dooley
9TH throuble is tn Cubians don't undher
stand our civilization. over here freedom
means hard wurruk. What s tn ambition
iv all iv us, Hinnissy? It's ayether to holC
our job or to get wan. We want wurruk
We must have it, Now whin Cubiar
comes home at night with a happy smile
on his face, he don't say to his wife anC
childer: Thank Gawd, I've got Wurruk a
last He says: Thank Gawd, I've beer
fired
You can't make people here understand
that an ye can't make a Cuban undher
stand that freedom means tn same thins
as a pinitinchry sintence. Whin we thr!
TO get him TO wurruk he'll say: why shu'
I? | haven't committed amy crime That
goin to be tn throuble. TIL first thing w
know Wen have another war in Cuba Whii
we begin disthributin' good jobs, lively
hours a day, wan sivinty-fiVe. TIL Cuban
amt civilized in our way. l sometime
think I've got touch iv Cuban blood il
me own veins"