New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-07-13

you to fill the executive chair of Mime.
sofa, we do not doubt for a moment
your hearty acquiescence.
What Conquest Means. g.. .l
There is no question as to the inten-
ton of the republican party to acquire
the Spanish islands in the Pacific ocean.
But as to what shall be done no conclu-
sion has been reached. Nobody claims
that the Philippines should be returned
to Spain or Cuba remitted to anarchy, or
Porto Rico be taken by us only to be
again put under the Spanish yoke which
Spanish hands have failed to keep upon
the necks OF the people there. It has
been proposed that these islands might
be ceded or sold to some European pow
er other than Spain. These questions
are now. on US. The answer to them, if
given according to our inclinations or
our aprehensions, is easy. But duty alone
can dictate the answer-the duty that
is due to humanity, to morality, to JUS
tice. If we intend to give back to the
tyrant power what we have wrested
from it, our war is mockery, our ar
mics are committing suicide, preceded
by murder; our navy Is engaged in a
work of violence and imposture and the
entire change wrought in the history of
the world since our declaration of war
has been a crime among the nations. On
the other hand, if we do not intend to
return to Spain the provinces we take
from her-and to that our people would
rever consent-and if not intending to
insure to them the blessings of our gov
ernment or the protection of our flag,
we cede or sell them to some other na-
tiOn, We convert our war into auction
and the goods which we hold up eor
sale will, under the circumstances of
national competition for them, destroy
the peace of the world. In the present
condition of our relations and response
bilities to the other nations of the world,
in the present age, which is vivid and
vital with love for liberty and humani-
ty, we cannot engage in SO mercenary a
proceeding and expect the United States
to retain its name or fame among the
nations of the earth.
Our duty will be to give the conquered
nations freedom and order, the first es-
sentials of civilization. It,was to estab-
lish them that we intervened In Cuba.
We warned Spain out because she would
not grant one and; guarantee the other.
We must make peace upon the precise
basis Of our ultimatum before the war.
Peace on that basis will have no excuse
for European interference. No. power
has any interest in any of the islands
which this arrangement would not con-
serve. There is no nation which would
not prefer security for trade with the
Philippine islands under American pro-
lection to any other possible disposition
of them except its own proprietorship,
and no power could seek them for itself
without grave risk of war, with several
others.-Minneapolis Times.
The number of Americans killed and
wounded in the battle before Santiago
is now known to have been 1893. Less
than three hundred were killed. IS.
Only through unconditional surrcn der
can the spaniards of Santiago expect to
avert an effective bombardment by the
forces under Sampson and Shafter. S.
Gen. Miles has set out for Santiago
with heavy reinforcements and it isn't
likely that any further attempt viii be
made to capture the city until his arrival.
Admiral Sampson wires the depart
Iment men at Washington, that, with prompt
action, he deems it possible to save the
Vizcaya, Cristobol Colon and Oquendo,.
and make them part Of the American
navy. ss5s
The Spanish general at Santiago is
said to have driven twenty thousand peo-
pie out Of the city and left them there.
to starve unless the American army feeds
them. Shafter has undertaken the task
but will find it almost next % imposai-;
bic, as the provisions INLAND an barely
suficient to supply the troops Fitif1I.
scenes mark the scramble Tor sbreas