The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-17

| our military power which our troops
| are making on the other 81 l. of the
| globe. II is something new in the his
tory of the world. 1t is putting America
| in the proud place of prime factor in
extending and developing the Wrrid s
| civilization and commerce.
Well, what is the tone and attitude
| of the newspapers of New York, ne
center of American commerce and civil
ization toward the great American en-
terprise in the Philippines Are they
conscious of the admiration which cur
army there is winning from the fore gu
world? Usually :hcy either ignore the
subject in their editorial discussions CT
subordinate its far oVerShadoWlng i'm
portance to the catchpenny treatment
of provincial and parochal matters of
paltry insgn1icance relatively. The
splendid demonstration of American
military skill, endurance devotion and
resiStleSS power makes no impression
on them, for their thoughts are occu-
pied rather with a humbug assault on
"embalned beef and with senseless
cries of Beef, beef" After a great
and unexampled victory over a Euro
pean state, organized on the modern
military system, after a war in which
we lost never a battle, skirmish,
prisoner, color, a gun, or ship, and
even our loss by disease, the greatest
foe of armies, was unprecedently
small proportionately, and while we are
repeating this glorious record in the
Philippines. they have nc eyes and
thoughts except for temporary and Su-
perfical matters of military concern.
We are now subduing rebellion
against our power in the Philippines,
and conducting there a campaign which
will be memorable for it's display of the
highest military ability and noblest
military virtues in the American troops,
a campaign of extraordinary difficulty,
which has been carried forward with
continuous success against obstacles
which would have been insuperable by
soldiers less dauntless: yet so splendid
an exhibition of American valor and
masterfulness goes without stirring the
hearts of these editors or distracting
their attention from puerile trivialities.
They seem to be incapable of ris-
ing to even faint conception
of the palpably tremendous importance
of events in the current history of
their country, though everywhere else
in the world these are estimated at
their true value. Their only keenness
of vision is employed in trying to dis
cover some defect in our army ration,
the most abundant in the world-a
officially expert decision, and at most
never of any grave Importance. One of
these newspapers, for instance, has
gloated over an insulting jibe which it
said was current in Berlin as to the
food of our troops. If an American
soldier was condemned to subsist on
the ration of the German soldier he
would revolt at the fare with indig-
nation, and the miserable pittance of
the Germans pay would excite his con-
temptuOuS amazement.
Undoubtedly, these papers have some
excuse for their neglect of the great
for the little. 1t has been furnished to
them by the conduct of the officer rank
ing as commander general of the
American army. Recently he has been
going about the country posing for ad-
miration, not as a successful leader in
the war, but as the leader of an at
tempt to divert public. thought from
the splendid achievements of American
soldiers to this matter of an item in
the army ration. The other day his
shameful example was commended to
college boys by their president as high
er in it's courage than that of the
soldier! Meantime this commander has
uttered not one word in recognition
for the magnificent performances of
our army in the Philippines, though
they are now provoking the praise of
the whole military world. -......
SO astonishing has been this journal
istic exhibition of Indifference and of
inability to comprehend the significance
of the triumph of American arms that
even the London Times is moved to
wonder at ard to rebuke it. That
foremost foreign paper deems the
splendid demonstration of our proWess
in the Philippines worthy of discussion
and celebration in it's leading article.
How is it in New York? "Algerism.'
beef! beef" and relatively petty paro-
chial concern absorb the intellectual
energies of these remarkable journals.
Our soldiers in the Philippines are
made of different stuff, thank God.
They are sustaining the power, the
dignity, the glory of their country at
the cost of their blood and their lives
in campaign which taxes to the ut
most the courageous endurance of
troops. They are making history
which will always command the study
and admira ton of mankind. They are
leading their country to a new and a
higher elevation as one of the pioneers
of civilization.--New York Sun.
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