Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1898 — CURRENT COMMENT [ARTICLE]

CURRENT COMMENT

American shot and shell are the best answer to Spanish heroics.—New York Journal. The chief province of the naval strategy board seems to be to figure things out after they have happened.—St. Paul Dispatch. . It would appear from the news reports that Spain purchased a great many war vessels for publication oniy.—Washington Post. tn order to have a naval victory to boast of, the Spaniards may yet have to confess, that they blew up the Maine. —Kansas City Journal. Spanish warships are cruising in the straits of Gibraltar. They will yet get into straits where they cannot cruise.— Salt Lake Herald. Spahlsh officials say it “was a sad but glorious day.” And so it was—«ad for Spain and glorious for the United States. —Kansas City Journal. There appears to be 4 growing suspicion that the sons of some .great men want to start In where their fathers k*£» off.— Cleveland Plain Dealer. , The American pctople love peace, but they do not want peace In war. They prefer Deweys way of arguing with Spain.—New York World. , » . When the Spaniards sank our battleship they put a new Maine-spring in every “watch” in our pavy.—Boston Globe.