The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-03-11

weilder of a caustic pen. He writes
with insight and wisdom wilc.i he con-
siders public affairs and has a happy
way OF exposing folly and pretention
His last paper on the latest pliase OF
"Interven. ion Is full OF good points
and. the whole should be read. He
throws ridicule pon the Contention
among foreign nations is TO which In
tervened in behalf Of The United States
as TO prevent the others from Jumping
upon "it"-see the congressional non
sense-in the Spanish war. England -
loving now, but was none too loving
then. bir. Dooley begins nis amusing.
keel paper in this effective way:
''Th question befor tn house Is said
Mr.. Dooley, which Nv tn Euro'peeJ,
powers done nos fr US in tn Spanish
war
said Mr.. Hennessy.
so did l., raj Mr.. Dooley, but
done him an injustice. / was crooi to
him crowned heads. IL II hadn't been
FIR some wan power, an l can't make
out which 1t was, tn Cubans today
u be opprissed be IN CASTLE instead
iv h Beet Sugar Thrust. an tn Fill
.pinor d be shot by ihausers Instead
iv Krag-Jorgensens. Some wan power
stretched out its hand an said. NO. no.
L. said. thus far. but no farther. We
will not permit this misguided but
warrum-hearted little people to be
crushed be tn ruffyan power " Spain.
1t said 'Niver,' Ii said, shall histhry
record that tn United States iv Amer
lea, mes lin there in ats cosy raypub
lie firm tn Atlantic to tn Passyic,
- lsI
crty that they robbed from US wasted
because we did not give thini support
1t says. An 81 whin r. future looked
darkest, whin we didn't know whether
tn war wud last eight or be prolonged
fr tin weary, tragic minytis, whin 1t
seemed as though tn Spanish fleet
wud not sink unless shot at some
kindly power was silently comfartin'
US an saying to itsalf. 4 do So rope
they'll win, if they Can.' But 1 don't
know which wan it was.
Eat first l thought it was England
Whinive We hear II amy country
helpin' US, We think it is England.
That's because England has helped
us so much in tn past"
That fits the case precisely. The
temper. 1t shows the latter-day pro-
fessions Of European powers to be sell
fish and %insincere. Urcle Sans devel-
oped power as a %conqueror n his abil-
ity to build big warships and great ex-
penditure have opened the eyes of some
nations and now they are sedulouslv
c~ultivating our country IN axe loving
and smiling and fatteTing in demon
STATIONS. Mr.. Dooley pen%etrates the
palaver n p%retense and hits from tie
shoulder after this sample:
cit won't do FIR we To look at tn man
say that tn pow'rful proCtictin' ma
ton wud be hardly big enoug fr n
watch charm FIR a man firm Texas or
Euro-peen assistance fr America
is about as useful as a crutch FIR a foot
But fl h intervention iv our
frind. we'd've been annihlln.
ted. TIL powers wud've got together
they wud've stint over a fleet that
been turrble il IT didn't blow up
an tn crews didn't get seasick. They
STINT irresis ,ibie ARMY like tn
wan that is now crushin' TIL Beers
with tn infirmities iv oil age; an ,
if all else failed they wud rayfusc
food. That's goin' to be tn UNEXPECTED
iv amy war that tn parishes iv
wages again us. They viii de-
cline to eat"