The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-04-15
PHILIP SOBER AND PHILIP
DRUNK

Mr.. James Gordon Bennett owns the
New York Herald and publishes a
Paris edition of it. Last Monday ne
gave in his two editions one of the
finest displays of Philip sober and
Philip drunk ever witnessed. The
Paris edition was Philip drunk. Here
is sample of it:
Witness the impending war upon
Spain-war without motive or justifi-
cation, and undertaken solely to feed
fat fires of speculation. But while
Americans are thus virtually bouncing
upon Il bedridden patient. let them
look well TO themselves for in no other
country does a state of such absolute
Reorganization exist as in theirs.
Then, after telling how Boston. New
York and other American cities are
infested with footpads. the Herald
continues:
AS to the west, as represented by
Chicago. it is simply Millions, and at
the lowest deep a lower depth" To a
foreign observer there is but one con-
clusion, namely, that the United States,
as a nation, has sunk below the level
of even a South American republic;
also that Europe need not fear sus-
tanned effort on the part of this people.
composed, as it is, of elements so he
terogeneous that its disintegration is
only question of time.
So much for Philip drunk, drunk on
Spanish wine, evidently. Now for
Philip sober. The Herald New York
or regular edition) of last Monday, in
the course of an article entitled, In
~
We are in the presense of war.
And yet there is a ray of hope for
peace.
If peace is to come as an Easter
benediction, upon what terms?
The country demands PREPARATION for
the Maine. If crime, the criminals
must be punished. If neglected hospi-
tally, the indemnity and reparation
must be forthcoming. Spain should
frankly, spontaneously concede this.
It cannot go into arbitration. Cuba
must be pacified. Existing relations
have become insufferable. Starvation
cease. This we will compel if diplo-
macy fails.
The Maine atoned, Cuba pacified. hui
manity respected. if independence
comes it shall have high welcome. A
free Cuba means in time an annexed
Cuba, whatever New England's war
senators may say. AS a republic Cuba
would be as helpless as Texas until
we had annexed 1t, or as Mexico until
we drove out Macmillan =
We believe in just war. We loathe
an unjust and unnecessary war. Spain
has given us every prOvocation, has
answered forbearance with indignity
II war be the only eXpiation, war be it
then. If. however, because of the con-
seriousness of weakness before our vast
and impending ornaments. an appre-
hension for the Madrid dynasty and
the infant sovereign, the influence, CO.
ercive or otherwise, of foreign powers,
a decree from the vatican or a com
mand from the brokers who hold Spain
IN pawn-if from any cause an honor
able peace is within the PRESIDENT
reach. he cannot put it aside.
Surely Philip sober is much more
sensible fellow than Philip drunk; in
fact, in the latter case he is a very
disagreeable, ugly person.
No one in this country anticipates a
state of anarchy as the result of a war
with Spain, no matter how such a war
might terminate. Absolute disorgan-
ization exists in the United States.
Since when? Nobody in the country
seems to realize this, not one person
in all our seventy millions of people.
The United States sunk lower than anv
republic of South America. Does Phil
Up own some Spanish bonds that he is
afraid they will so even lower than
the great republic?
Man was given two ears to hear
with and one tongue to talk with. our
Philip seems to have two tongues. and,
like Midas, has ASS ears.