Mexico weekly ledger., 1899-04-20

SAYS What AgEtEtiEs PolineiA.s Ned
SedAtzss-Es,kizg Golzg
ts EspPsa to A2sr1e1
Bat Prosperity

WAswgFOS, April Is.-Rsv. De
WIZ TGlzzze gave sons intarss-inx
vis1s to-day Upoa the oztlook q
E1tioS4l ssairE He sid
"Sever IA ny tine nor IN tse time
Of szy living mar waa the prospect
for taAa coautry 90 srigat what 01-
aginzssd politicians Eoss need nov "a
a sensitive. Sothfng II going to hap
pen TO tht countFy but prosperity.
All she evil prophesirs o. the past
have failed. Every decade Of cur
history haa been an improvsneut On
the prevfSua decade ] 90 not shAre
In the agitations sitheg Of the expan-
s3oniEts or auti-exPAnsaoni=tE. It Il
absurd 70 be imp8seztly crying out
Tor . declaration a. 10 what i Our
goveEunent's policy for The future.
Thsy cannot foresee what viii be best;
No man can tel nov what win be
best We can no nsre zee What
viii Be the t1rn Of Afairs than
ne c0ald have prophssisd the ex-
plosf0a Of TIE Maize or the sinking
Of Cerverz's entire feet with almost
No loss 70 ourselves ! believe ths1
Prssdsnt Mckinney and his Cabsnst
zzd the GensEhls and Admins are
doing the very best things- It i easy
for u to sf and ~czideiss, a. during
the war We sat and criticised
sThe same thing happensd curing
our eivl conflict. We Who stayed al
home knew better how to fight the
battles than the Generals st the front,
and prayers in those tines we're Offer
ed IN Northern and Southern pzlpits,
which gave the Lord q great deal Of
Information ss to low the w1r saould
be condDcsed, information which,
though nok used, uast have been very
gratifying. TIE oyerhGuEing and de-
fzmEtion Of our officials and military
leaders a that tine was % per cent
worse than now. People called Grant
. butcher and Lincoln q bufooa Ess
Hooker = drunken loafer. II il very
suggestive to take up the cartoons Of
the years between 1850 and 1856.
Names around which We roE put
gzzzuds we're then besP&ttsred with
mud.
"Ehst do you think Of the invssti-
cations which have been and nov are
going On concerning the conduct Of
the wzE7s
"WeI, l think this country always
wants 3 scaPegoza, someone on whom
il can pEIe abuse and misrepressnta-
tons and hillingHgzte- No var de-
psTtnenf that w&a v created could
in two months give equipmsut
transportation, food, medicine and
shelter to 10000 men, and have
everything 90 smoothly without m1s-
take. The simple fact ID thai some
scoundreIly q1arterrnastsrs,for whose
behavior no One was responsible bat
themselves, ssut TO the army meat
that vii stink q thousand years. I
would like 10 hear the nans Of some
man who, as Secretary Of War, could
have foreseen everything that has
happened, apd who could have made
the necessary appointments without
developing here and there an incom-
petsnt- Wa IL pandenonium let
loose, and no sooner IL . war pro-
claimed than . lot OF incompetent
surgeons and fool chaplains and ig-
norxnt officials get their friends 10
commend them for position in the
army. And, acting on what are sup
posed to be honest and intelligent
Communications, the war department
sometimes unwittingly send to the
front physicians who could hardly tell
the difference between rheumatism
and mumps, and chsplains who can
not SPEAK without disgusting the reg
, iment with their miteracy, and OIL
GERS who could not 60 through the
easiest company dril in q city armo-
~. At the time the Spanish wal
opened Washington was filed with
applicants for everything, and the
only wonder is that the War and
Navy Departments were not oftensE
mislsd.
"The fact is, that this war ought
never 10 have occurred. A lot Of fell
lows up there Ia Congress kept howl
ing for var, but when the var came
they did not 90 themselves and they
have ever since been trying to de-
fame and belittls those who, to the
best of their sbility, conducted the
war. We have had the greatest naval
cncer Of the century, Admiral Schleyt
sssziled for disobeying orders, and
, Gen. shafter denounced for being too
fat and wanting to retreat, and heroiC
and unparalleled General Wheeler for
sOmething else, / have forgotten
what.
Eve are all tired Of this investi-
eating business. II IL costing the
government Of the United States an
awful pile of money and the only
practical result will be the extinguish-
/ ment of what glory this giant OF q
nation won In thrsshing the Spanish
plgmy. The investigating committees
had better be disbanded and 60 into
better business than that Of smelling
around to see IL they can find . mall
odor. Inever knew q mar In church
= or state to move for an investigating
committee who was not himself q
slice Of sembalmed beef
"rhe question nov is, what to do
with the bad job We have on hand7
say educate and eyangelize those
islands. The work has already splen-
didly begun. The missionary socie-
ties have entered upon q great plan
/ OF gospelization. l hope capitalists
IN great numbers will 60 there and
take with them printing presses and
schools and colleges; in ten year.
those people may be prepared for the
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