Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1898-03-29
A PACK OF SEA HOUNDS

There is at the present moment
riding at anchor 2 Key West, within
foul hours ~un Of Havana. thirty one
ships OF war str.ining their anchor
CHAINS ike a pack Of mounds in the
leash, waiting for The oder to flash
from Washing on TO swoop down OF
Cuba.
Tue combined displacements Of
these vessels is over one hundred
thousand tons and some Of their mon
ster guns WI cay a thousand pound
p"oJecu'e twelve niles. The crews of
these vessels eve, 50 TO sleep at n:.glt
without hoping mat they will be
reused rom Their slumbeis with
orders to weigh anchof and speed for
Cuba where a chance to avenre ne
murder Of nearly three hundred o.
their comrades awaits them.
What a cheer would go up from the
throats Of those sailors were thew to
get the wo.d TO turn heir p.ows
toward the South.
WHAT a sight to make ne blood of
every American cap with p:ide to see
those monster sea dogs unmuzzled
and bounding across the wafer for
theli goal. The picture O.. their
steel prows brushing aside The massive
foam, tnei smoke stacks leaving
a black trail behind and their crews
grouped about tie guns impatient for
the fray.
Cuba is sighted and twelve miles
Out al sea comes the order to train the
guns Of tue Brooklyn on Havana.
A touch Of he button, a roar echoes
over the sea and a thousand pound
shell falls on Moro Castle. The
other vessels r@rge alongside the big
leader of the feet and as they advance
a hundred guns ba K in chorus and
by the time they have reached Havana
the city IS 2 heap ofdismantled houses
and IN the hands of the insurgents.
Imagine tie gIeam of pleasure that
would ght the eyes Of the thousands
OF starving 1ec%oncentrados who have
tor months past Lived on the hope that
the Unlted States would take pity on
their mlseries and reach out is strong
arms for the relief.
Imagine the rejoicings in Cuba that
night with the victorious insurgents
celebrat lg their victory in the streets
OF Havana and The dungeon doors Of
Spain opening at the command of the
American ma-iues.
With these scenes enacted on that
little island would not everv man
woman and child III the United States
rise next morning and say "Amen."
Then # Spain wanted any more
discussion on the subject the fleet
should hunt hers wherever it could
he found and such a drubbing dealt
out to it that the arrogance aud pulled
pride OF Spain would be laid n. the
lust of tue next hundred years.
She has been the most nou~pro
gresslve and ]tyrranous nation Of the
earth and chief butcher of the lot.
She has ground her principaliiies
under the heel Of despotic oppression,
robbed their inhabitants by excessive
taxation and in times of war has not
hesltated to throw bodies of armed
troops upon aick soldiers lying in the
hospitals and starving women and
children N the felts.
She has played the coward, brar.
gar, bully, murderer and thief and
her word mas hever been worth the
paper It was written on. Treachelv,
cruelty and despotism has marked
every step IN her career and it is tine
that every vestige Of her authority
was wiped off the map of the New
World. 1t seems 10 the most casual
observer that the time has arrived 70
begin the wipin9.