Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1899 — PULSE of the PRESS [ARTICLE]

PULSE of the PRESS

Filipino Peace Proposals. Peace must be made on our own terms. —Nashville American. Surrender first, peace and reconciliation afterwards.—Louisville Courier-Journal. It is regrettable that there should be any delay in arriving at terms of peace Buffalo Courier. It is useless to urge that Aguinaldo cannot surrender without the authority of the Congress.—Omaha Bee. Aguinaldo’a effort tp work the manana game on Gen. Otis was not successful.— Seattle Post-Intelligencer. - Self-preservation will force Luna to accept Gen. Otis’ terms of unconditional surrender.—New York Mail and Express. Aguinaldo is the kind of general who thinks twice liefore allowing a war to interfere with his summer vacation.—Washington Star. Talking of peace cannot stop fighting just now. unless complete surrender is agreed to. for the serious part of the rainy season is near at hand.—Minneapolis Times. If the insurgents insist on losing another capital or two before making peace, Gen. Otis should hasten to gratify their desire with all possible dispatch.—Sioux City Journal. Of course Otis is carrying on the negotiations with the Tagals badly! He is an ignorant wardog on the ground, and the know-it-alis here could tell him off-hand that he ought to surrender unconditionally!—New York Tribune.