Judge — May 28, 1898 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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AS 70 the torpedo-boat Gwin, we hope it will. see 5 OMMODORE DEWEY acted himself into immortal fame within three days, © THE LATE Spanish fleet—*Since I was so quickly done for I wonder what I was begun for?” DON CARLOS. A REVOLUTION at Madrid will bring out Don Carlos as a schemer and a possible king; but if he wins the throne he will be very sorry for it. This is not a good time for monarchies, and what is going to be left of Spain's credit and value will hardly suffice for the crown, THEIR SACRED HONOR, HE UNNECESSARY killing of several thousand ordinary men will presently be looked upon by the Spanish government as a vindication of Spanish honor. It is a pity that the members of the government did not decide to give their lives to the vindication, but they never thought of that. ' LET US FIGHT THE ENEMY. oe DES A MAN'S first duty belong to his wife and children or to the suffering people of Cuba?” asks a lady. This is no time to ask such vexatious questions. Let us wait until the war is over. Why invite bickerings in the domestic circle when all the fighting on our side ought to be centred on the beastly Spaniards ? RULING THROUGH VILLAINY. COLONIZATION BY SPAIN has been the means to her own luxury and the degradation of her dependencies. There has been no change in these methods, and the wonder is that she has held on to remnants of her possessions so long. It shows what wonderful patience colonies have, and also what amazing and selfish meanness the ruling power has been guilty of through centuries. THE COMING cee THE WORLD is with us in this fight, with the gratifying exception of Spain and the relatives of the acting queen. T MUST be admitted that the Spanish edit- ors are offering the yan- kee pigs a great deal of their peculiar swill. SENoR POLO says he isn’t afraid of the whole United States. So he went into Canada just for his health, did he? S IT NOT curious that HEROES. THESE DAYS bring up memories of ‘sixty- one. We didn’t know much about war then, but there was'a sufficiency of information before the surrender at Appomattox. The greater heroes of the civil war were totally un- known at the beginning of it. Who shall win greatness in the struggle now on? We have great expectations in connection. with Fitz Lee and Theo- dore Roosevelt; but the last men may be first and. the’first last. CIVILIZATION. Spanish honor could be vindicated only through the destruction of the Spanish fleet at Manila? cee IN THE FIGHTING between Speaker Reed and Statesman Bailey the latter is captured pretty nearly every day and towed into port as a cheap prize. Before and MB. WANAMAKER doesn’t expect to beat the Quay Republicans; but his proposed regiment will win such glory in Cuba that he will be as happy as if he might. A VIENNA PAPER says the niceties of diplomacy are wasted on such people as the Americans. It is such mean remarks as that that make us want to fight to the other fellow’s last ditch. eee LONG ARTICLE in the Evening Post shows innumerable recon- struction troubles when Cuba gets her freedom. Isn't the existing situation worth considering, too? Hadn't death by starvation ought to be stopped? ++ [F WE ARE so civilized,” inquires a lady orator, “ why do we want to go to war with a barbarous nation?” We should like to have had somebody present that question to General Gomez. It might have led to his immediate surrender. JEWELL AND JAMES went from the newspaper office to the office of postmaster-general, and during their terms some pains were taken to distribute periodicals as well as letters. A little hint for Charles Emory Smith, who has had much to do with newspapers himself. PUNCTURED. STREET-RAIL- WAY COMPANY in Cincinnati forbids any. employé going on duty within: twenty-four hours after eating onions in any form. This is a courtesy to the traveling public that ought to have been adopted long ago. When one thinks of it the wonder grows that there should have been this long delay. Some day, bearing in mind, for instance, the ordinance forbidding spitting in public conveyances, we may become half-civilized and somewhat happy. after. RULER AND VICTIM. THE STATESMEN of Spain order a fight in Cuba and a further sacrifice of life with the idea in view of a graceful descent from their high altitude. When their army gets out of Cuba they will laugh at their, acuteness and bury their dead without tears. They remind .one of the western sheriff who was proud of the success of his first hanging. “It was beautiful,” he said, with a shining face. “Jim went_off like a bird.” Then his eye fell on the gaunt, haggard face of Jim. “ Why, why!" he said, “1 wonder what makes Jim look so blamed sorry.” WHY LEE CAME? [7 1S NOT exactly true, as a Havana paper says, that General Lee left Havana because he was too cowardly to remain longer, but he might have been apprehensive. The Spanish character turns to assassination as a baby to the mother milk, and the more helpless a man is the more vindictive the Spaniards are. General Lee was doubtless prudent. He wanted, quite naturally, to come home alive. We don’t blame him a bit. Why should he have remained in Havana to be killed? His duty called him to no such sacrifice, and again he wanted to go back and fight his. enemies, comicbooks.com