Judge — April 6, 1889 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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LAST accounts A Grover had not cap- tured Cuba, and by the une token Otto had not acquired Samoa, ON SHERMAN says. more by his silence. than most men might say in volumes of speech if they never had a stutter, W DO NOT think that Governor Hill will marry, He will do as Grover did during the war he will send a substitute. HE MAN who has a mind of his own is a splendid fellow until he insists that no other man shall have a mind of his whether he has public office or is given to public life! An act, an event. a signature, a suggestion, may be as slight in its effec is thrown from beach to ¢ but the eff lasting and become as large as the signature of King John to the magna charta. George will presently till this great city for three days —George and Benjamin, and the William Henry who preceded the latter by two generations, Ab, ho} as the pebble th: t is there, and it may be rue it i Tives of Whigs, they all remind us We can make our lives sublime; As Republicans leave behind us Records ne'er behind the time, PROTECT THE SEA-COAST! THE VULNERABILITY of the United States through its important and numerous harbors is a matter of national anxiety. The great cities on the Atlantic, and San Francisco and Portland on the Pacitic toast, are broad, open and absolutely defenseless. If 2 occur between this nt, leading toarmed menace (while a military attack would be ridiculous), the ships of a third-rate power could hold as hostage Boston, New York, Philadelphia, or even Washing- ton, under the threat of its guns, ‘The complacent plumage of the Amer- ican eagle would be but a slim defense against Krupp cannon or the less forceful projectiles of any larger geographically cough not only to: thr serious difference should and any European governui ropean navy. ‘The Malian peninsula, no Florida, is the possessor o| armament strong aten but devastate our wealthiest sea cities, the richest reachable in the world, Our open ocean front, stretching from the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of the St. Lawrence, from the frostless mouth of the Mississippi to the cliffs of Maine, that crunch the icebergs of the Arctic sea, is in its breadth at once our wealth and our weakness. The time has passed when the Atlantic tion. ‘The a has become a bridge instead of a barr Not only our national was a fortifi safety, but national self- demands prompt nt defense, It may be that “Thrice armed is he who has his quarrel just It is wiser to be four times. armed by sufficient forti- fications, and a navy large enough, strong and alert enoug! comer. The millenium is to cope with any own, BITTER INDIGNATION. afar off, Nations, like eee men, are deterred from ROBERT LINCOLN Mr. Grocan—"'Oi'm goin’ back t’ Irelan’, Rosie!" struggle with the strong nceralieeicghen -<* Mxs. Grocay—" What's wrong, John?” + cae never sings) to showy Mk. Grocax—" There's a fomily of nagurs moved in on th’ lot below, an’ O7'll Governments that haven that he is waiting or shtay no longer in a counthry thot laves a nagur kape a goat.” regard for political forms and there is a growing opinion that he is the worthy son of his sire and therefore fitted to a larger place than any that comes of persistent: begging. anxious for an office, BY THE GALLEY FIRE. | 1 IS SAFE to say that whatever Benjamin Franklin Tracy may do with the navy will be looked upon in certain quarters as merely the thing that William Whitney would have done if he hadn't been blown out of the swim by a truly competent adversary. Adversity is, however, to a certain extent the fate of naval warfare; and William will pipe to the as soon as he can find the pipe. quarters mentioned GEORGE AND BENJAMIN. WASHINGTON runs through a large portion of every he dust at Mount Vernon is extremely quiet, but the i G ZORGE year, Huences which the man who belonged to it created are as lasting as time itself. How much a man is of his present and of the future if he is as great a.Inan as our George was! How he ought to behave himself have a profound respect for strength. may sneer at the French republic; it does not sneer at armed and re- ful France. ¢ stupendous iron-clads were for atime deemed invulnerable. ‘The invention of the torpedo, that could be sped swiftly, silent and unseen, to strike their unprotected hulls below the water-line, was at first thought to al. ‘Their mission of attack, however, is frustrated by the protection of asteel netting hung around, down and over the line of weakness, This naval crinoline tangles, deflects and renders harmless the explosion of the projectile. Every project of murderous ingenuity seems to be met, and is met, with an equally efficient defense. It is a race of science and mec! cal skill in which, while watching, we have taken but little part. England is now proposing to double her immense naval strength at an outlay approximating $110,000.000, England has in every sea com- merce to protect. Our foreign commerce is limited and small, but the commerce on our own coasts exceeds the total of Great Britain; yet our defenseless seaboard more than equals the whole seaboard of Europe. It is expected of the Repulsi istration that jermany ven; be fi party and this admi comicbooks.com