The record-union., 1898-07-18

will be upon them for whatever need
less sacrifice of life may ensue.
THEIR METHODS OF FIGHTING.
Alameda Argus: We hear a great
deal about the personal bravery Of the
Spaniards, but the particulars of their
fighting does not seem to bear it out
The gallant way that history records
and that is generally accepted as the
unwritten law is for ships to fight till
they go down. and never surrender In
stead We see Cervera's fleet heading for
the shore when too sorely beset, so that
by Bleaching the men yet alive might get
off. After they got off they huddled
on shore, in deathly fear of the Cubans.
The good American way is to fight it
out, and if defeated, to go down with
the ship. And another thing that seems
probable is that the speed and effec-
tiveness of the Spanish cruisers were
greatly overrated. When war began
there was shiver all along the Allan
tic Coast because it was believed that
the Spanish navy was greatly superior
to ours and might have no check to
going and doing whatsoever it listed.
The experience shows that the fear
was based on nothing at all that was
substantial.
MORE UNDERMINED WORK.
Riverside Enterprise: The dispatches
from Cuba convey the information that
the Spaniards defending Santiago have
adopted a cowardly method of prolong-
ing their resistance by misuse of the
Red Cross flags on large number of
buildings, says the Evening Express"
These structures are so located that it
iSs yal1 itrI, .rsil l,ln oh a
Spanish intrenchments with their fire
without injuring the buildings pro-
tected by the flags. Such conduct is
despicable, nor should the American
forces tolerate any such interference
with their plans if it does actually in
terfere This line of action is very
similar to that adopted by many of the
smaller Spanish vessels in Manila har-
Dor, that attempted to fight from be
hind the foreign vessels in port, and
then, defeated, accused the Americans
of the very trick of which they alone
We're guilty. The policy is just what
might be expected from a nation that
declined to join an international agree
ment to refrain from privateering,
poisoned bullets, poisoned well water
and other fiendish ideas abandoned
generations ago by all humane and CIV
ilized nations
AGE OF MIRACLES.
Tulare Register: The victory of Samp-
son ever Cervera again shows that the
age of miracles has not ended. We
thought it marvel enough that Dewey
could destroy the Spanish fleet in Man.
liza and lose but one man, who died
of heart failure as a consequence of the
strain of battle, one Captain GTidley.
who died because of having fought
that battle when i'll, and eight wound
ed, yet here the flower of the Spanish
navy was annihilated, its men killed
or captured and the vessels driven
ashore and blown up with a loss to
our side of one man killed and two
wounded. What could be more i'm
probable? What radiant. enthusiast,
undertaking Spanish valor and over
rating American prowesA could have
predicted any such result? The ''Arabi-
an Nights" does not contain tales so
wonderful The truth is vastly stranger
than any fiction.
AWAY WITH FAKE SENTIMENT.
Stockton Independent: The talk of
the Anglo-Saxon race against the
world is growing a little tiresome.
When the real sentimentalists took up
the question of an alliance between
Great Britain and America and began
to weave into 1t an alleged kinship and
mase it blood or race covenant, it be-
gan then to be an abSurdity. Least