The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-25
1NDIANA,s wARL1KE EDITORS.


What the boys in blue will do to that
trocha will be sufficient.-Terre Haute Ex-
press.
The boys in blue and the boys in gray
are marching through Georgia under one
flag now.-Muncie News
Spain should have made better use of her
time in Cuba when she had plenty of it.
-Shelbyville Republican.
If Blancos guns shoot as wild. as MS
mouth, no American soldier will ever re-
ce1ve a Scratch.-kokomo Tribune.
Remember the Maine" will be the shib-
boleth of the American army, that will put
an end to Spanish domination in the western
Observation-Disclosures News.
Spain talks, good 9deal about her
honor" People with "a shady character
are always loudest in their protestatlons or
honor.-Henry County Republican.
The statement that there would be no
cane raised in Cuba this year is a mistake.
Uncle Sam will raise a crop That VIII sur
prise the Decentralization News
War hath it's horrors. No one denies that.
But peace, peaceatunder Spanish rule. hath
horrors many times WorSe.-Terre Haute
Gazette.
If Butcher Weyler comes back to Cuba
to command the Spanish troops, our soldiers
won't do thing to him.-Noblesville
Ledger.
European powers are not going to make
naval demonstrations in Cuban waters. The
United States has spoken for that LOCALITY.
Lafayette Courier
The Spanish sailors who have vowed never
to return until they are victorious may as
well make arrangements at once to have
their mail forwarded.-Marion Chronicle.
The Americans were largely for peace but
now that war is on quick sharp work should
be done and the war ended before the Span
iards get a good start.-Greentield Repuo-
lican.
Spaniards win find that the blowing up Of
the Maine will help their cause about as
much as the assassination of President
Lincoln helped the cause of secession
-MiShaWaka Enterprise.
Now that war is on let every American
breathe prayer that Old Glory will never
be lowered in front of any foe and that the
brave boys in this will be victorious IN every
contest.-Was hington Gazette.
The duty of this Nation is to make the
present war so awful in its destruction of
men and cities as to prevent all wars in
the future. The object lesson must strike
terror to the hearts of nattons.-Lafayette
Call.
A ship out of powder can run away but
one out of coal is lost. Realizing this fact
the Spanish fleet had better be careful
where it goes, for Uncle Sam has both
powder and coal, and plenty of it.-Logans-
port Journal - 4.p r-...-f .lt .....
So far as the troubles between the United
States and Spain are concerned the INES
drawn between Republicans and Democrats
have been obliterated and all true Ameri-
cans are standing upon platform OF loyalty
and patrotism.--Anderson Bulletin.
When next ''the powers" tender their
good offices it will be at the earnest request
of scared Spaniards, to stop warfare that
has brought Spain to ruins brink. And the
Spaniards won't be at all fastidious about
the terms.-Wabash Plain Dealer.
If the capture of Havana by the United
States troops works as great a sanitary
revolution in that city as the capture of
New Orleans by the Union forces in the
sixties, it's capture VIII be a real blessing to
it's inhabitants. Fort Wayne Gazette.
We have in the past heard something
about twisting the lions tail" but when
the American policy relating to Spain is
cheered in the House Of Commons we feel
like announcing to our English cousins that
every kink, so far as America is concerned,
is taken out.-rMuneie Times.
AS American citizens; as people being
under one of the best and freest of govern
ments, it is our duty to theoretically sus-
tain and support the powers that be, in
bringing the war to a6final and successful
conclusion; and this duty applies to men or
all partieS Warsaw Times.