Judge — June 11, 1898 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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ENGLAND and the United States—United we stand; divided we stand also. aise ‘THE SPANIARD is unfortunate, but he may congratulate himself that he is getting a geographical education. FRED GRANT may fight with Fitz hugh Lee in Cuba. As has been suggested, the civil war is far enough away to be forgotten, cee ANY CHANGE in the gov- ernment of Spain must inevitably be a descent from the frying-pan into the place where Spaniards most be- long. oe [t IS A WISE YOUTH who kisses his sweetheart good-bye every chance he gets, because the examining doctor may refuse to accept him when the time comes. eee THOSE GERMAN SAIL- ORS at Cadiz who fra- ternize with Spanish sailors and curse the United States with unity and force are evi- dently tars from the same stick. sae THE LURING of Dewey " into the harbor of Manila was great Spanish cunnin, but it would be greater cun- ning to lure the fleet out of it. has captured a prisoner.” How often that half-sightedness occurs. cee [ TWAS the original impression of the Spaniards that the yankee pigs were of the kind that went about. roasted, with knives and forks’ in their backs, begging the Spaniards to eat them. eee ET US BEG the dissatisfied commoners of Italy to postpone their revolution until a few other wars are ended. Men cannot be born with sixteen eyes in their heads, and this world is no four-ringed circus. se] ALWAYS FEEL.” says General William Booth, “that my motives are so good that everybody ought to like me.” Truly « comfortable feeling; and yet if such a man is disliked by somebody he must feel as if he would like to punch his unappreciative head. s©WHAT IS A MAN?" inquires the Reverend Edith Hill Booker of Kansas in a recent lecture. But for the fact that the lady has been married fourteen months we should suspect a typographical mistake, the real question being that of the average Kansas maiden, * Where is a man?" <a A SHREWD DIAGNOSIS. GvARD—"* Colonel, one of our Kentucky pickets is shot and one of the colored pickets Coton. (rapidly)—"' Let the Kentuckian be have the chicken brought to my tent immediately. PAUSE FOR REFRESHMENTS. FTER POUNDING the Spanish fleet at Manila till there was little left to shoot at, there came the order “The firing will cease. We will devote an hour to breakfast.” That is a pretty good lot of vessels to board with as well as to,fight with. QUR RECONSTRUCTION TROUBLES. THE QUESTION is frequently asked, what of the Philippines, of Cuba, of Porto Rico when they are in our hands? Ah, what a world of trouble we are getting into! One shudders to think of it. How much better it would have been to let the Spanish starve and kill their revolting subjects, ‘ WHY? SPANIARDS might better have considered the situation of China, which has every other foreign nation on its hands, each armed with knife and fork. Why should Spain exist with its tax-paying accessories gone, its home people taxed to the point of pauperism, its credit permanently absent, and nothing but poverty and revolution at its back ? THE ECSTASY OF SAVAGERY. SPANISH MOB is a little worse than any other. Your ordinary brute is content to kill men and boys. It is difficult to see how this amounts to gratification or satisfaction. It is the lust for blood which no law of nature can explain. But your Spanish brute kills women and girls, and is as proud of it as if he had won in a fair fight. THE MIGHT-HAVE-BEEN. HE LADIES of one of the peace societies held a meeting in Boston the other day, and resolved that peace with Spain would have been “atriumph tocivilization rare- ly equaled in history.” Noth- ing could be more sweet ; and it is forceful as well as sweet now that the war is on and peace is an angel in heaven. We feel sure that of the half- million reconcentrados starv- ed to death in Cuba not one will raise a hand against the soulful proposition, THE GROSSEST POLITENESS. HE CAPTAIN of a Span- ish vessel at Manila who wanted the fight postponed until he could get some am- munition was treated with great severity by Commodore Dewey. The courtesy was brutally refused, and present- ly the poor fellow excused himself and went down with his crew. We learn from this how cruel war is. It destroys all manner of politeness, and substitutes death for the amenities. And yet Commo- dore Dewey, so far from being dropped from the service, is promoted. No wonder the Evening Post howls, IM- t in the guard-house to sober up, and ight about! Huh-b-h!” SOME PROFITABLE MERCY. T 1S A GOOD THING that the law disqualifying ex-confederates from holding positions in the United States army was marked off the books. ‘The removal of the disqualification gives us Fitzhugh Lee and Joseph Wheeler, and they are needed in this emergency. Justice is well, but jus- tice tempered with mercy is better. And the further we get from those four years of civil war the better it seems that we didn’t hang any persons of our own flesh and blood for fighting for their opinions. And they will never do any rebelling again. THE SCHOOLS THE ARMY. THE MILITARY DRILL in our public schools is a great help to the work of disciplining an army. Add to it the experience in war that we had thirty years ago, and the work of the national guard, and a few days suffice for an army ready for action, It took months in ‘sixty-one to accomplish the discipline that is now to be had for the asking, and our standing army amounts to a mere ‘handful. Every school ought to give the military drill and information. That amounts to our standing army, and it is the best and the least expensive in the world. comicbooks.com