The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-28
COMMENTS OF THE PRESS.

Chicago Dispatch: 1t would be inter-
esting to know the name of the man who
is responsible for the laundering conduct
of thew ar OF course, primarily, William
! William Mckinley is not torceful enough
TO make policy and to follow it out con-
sistently. Before the war was declared
1 he was on all sides of the question, one
/ day hot for war. the next day roaring for
peace: Perhaps Alger is to blame. His
/ record as an aggressive hghter is not
were brief and Unhappy. Perhaps Miles is
| to blame. He is SAID 10 advocate extreme
caution, and to be anxious to lead none
4 but well-trained soldiers in an advance
on Cuba 1t may be that the board of
! strategy is making all this middle. But
/ that there is blame to be assigned some
where there is no doubt. In all probabil-
ity the explanation of the delays and the
| blunderS Will be found in the application
of the old proverb that too many cooks
spoil the broth. What is wanted is
man. One man who is a leader of men.
The progress of the war will develop the
man.
Minneapolis Tribune: The admnistra-
ton has seemed incapable from the outset
OF Srasping the idea that war was de-
clared to give Cuba Independence and re-
lieve the starving reconcentrados. and for
no other purpose; and the necessity of
landing troops at the earliest possible
moment was apparent the moment war
was declared. as it has been every day
AIDING squadron they could have landed
anywhere outside of Havana They were
very few fortified coast towns and those
that had land batteries could have been
reduced in an hour. But the administra-
tons policy OF representation has en-
abled the Spaniards to do an immense
amount of work terrifying and to deploy
troops all along the coast. We have been
playing into the hands of the Spaniards
until it is far more difficult to land 500
well armed men today than Ii would have
hean To land AZ 40 tvyO PraSi-
dent Mckinley himself admitted some two
weeks ago that unless immediate action
was taken to provide the starving nom
combatants in Cuba with food. the main
purpose of the war would be removed
meaning that there would be few recon-
centrados left if we delayed taking pos
an easy conclusion to reach. in view
of the statement. which is probably under
rather than above the truth, they are
perishing at the rate of 1900 a day.
Los Angeles Herald: The great victory
won is jeopardized by the hardness of
the administration in taking advantage
seem to have been stunned by the vigor
and effectiveness of Dewey's blow 1t has
proved more paralyzing to Washington
than TO Madrid. That sort of warfare |
was evidently not part of the pro- |
gramme. And IL orders were given to de-
stroy the Spanish feet in Asiatic waters.
II Is obvious such an achievement was |
wholly unlocked for. since no preparation
whatever was made to follow it up with |
reinforcements, with ammunition or sup
plies, and there has not been moment |
since the last Spanish flag was struck !
In Manila bay that our occupancy of the /
islands has not bees. .mperiled With half |
the Spanish navy at the bottom of the |
ocean, with the remainder of it in hiding. |
the Washington authorities still stand in |
awe Of about the weakest nation on the |
European continent today.
Minneapolis Times: There seems to |
have been deliberate purpose to divert |
the public mind from the real object of |
the war. But il has not succeeded. The |
people know that We have engaged in this |
light in the name of humanity. and that !
we have been conducting a war of cor |
guest and aggression. The capture Of |
Manila and the destruction of the Cape
Verde squadron were important, perhaps. !
as aids, but they only contributed to the
main business, and they have no value |
At all unless we take Cuba and drive the |
Spaniards from the island. Is it any Won |
der that the irresoution and faulty of |
the administration are provoking the de-
rlslve criticism of military men and the
press of E,urona2