Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1898 — PULSE of the PRESS [ARTICLE]

PULSE of the PRESS

We must extend Anglo-Saxon civilization in the far East.—Evening Wisconsin. Hooley now says he has net named all the people that bled him. Hool he accuse next? —Boston Herald. Admiral Sampson’s report has at least, recalled the importance of the little word “if.”-—Washington Post. Judging by the prices Hooley paid, England may be right in holding its House of Lords dear.—Philadelphia Times. By pulling off a quintuple lynching Arkansas has made the Porto Rico campaign a very tame affair. —Washington Post. We wouldn’t advise Gen. Weyler to come over here on the strength of the reception that has been accorded Cervera.— Boston Globe. As soon as the American ham sandwich was mustard into the Santiago campaign the Cubans were happy.—Johnson City (Tenn.) Comet. Destiny seems to be thrusting the Philippines upon the United States as a fairly earned trophy of the war.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. It was expected Havana would! not tumble till the autumn, but results show even Spanish pride goes before a fall.— Philadelphia Times. The capture of Manila before it was possible to stay the hands of Dewey and Merritt was a piece of unmixed good fortune. —Philadelphia Record. The lion is doing some heavy growling, but the bear keeps ominously quiet. He may intend to rush the growler when least expected.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. It was a war without a single repulse to our arms, and the most serious consequences of which were the result of bad management in our camps.—Boston Herald. The fall of Manila by arms, instead of its surrender by cartel, materially improves the position of the United State* in the negotiation at Paris.—Philadelphia Press. There is one way to divide up the Santiago sea fight, and that is to give Sampson credit for the blockade and Schley credit for the fight.—Memphis Commer-cial-Appeal.

So far as the comments of the American press on the subject, during a period of four weeks, indicate anything, the purchase of a patent incubator by the Hon. Grover Cleveland is without political significance. —Milwaukee Sentinel. Our Pacific Possessions. Possession is nine points of law.—Boston Globe. It is definitely settled that they must not be returned to Spain.—New York Journal. There is every reason to demand that the Philippines should hot be given up or divided.—Tacoma Ledger. There is a constantly increasing sentiment throughout the country in favor of the retention of the Philippine Isiands.— Nebraska State Journal.

The spectacle of Dewey alone at Manila, but in control in spite of everything, is a solemn protest against giving back the Philippines.—Concord Evening Monitor. American blood has been spilled upon the soil of the Philippines. It is time to stop the talk of the surrender of the island to Spain.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. There is no longer the slightest apparent objection among the European powers to our assuming the full ownership and responsibility for the Philippines.—Detroit Tribune. Give up the Philippines? Oh. no; not this year! We want them for commerce and civilization, and we also want them for strategic reasons quite as much.—Asbury Park Journal. There is no disguising the temper of the American people. The people of the United States want the Government at Washington to secure the full control of the Philippine Islands. —Peoria Jonuninl. What! Give up Manila! By no means. Let the agitators call it Imperialism if they will, but the true American spirit will demand that we shalk,not surrender one inch of territory upon which we ha ve so gallantly fought.—Philadelphia Inquirer. There is no determination yet as to what we shall do with those islands, but the people are just as firmly resolved that Spain shall never have them again as they are that she shall relinquish all claim to Cuta and Porto Rico.—Richmond (Va.) Times. We presume there were people who talked about “imperialism” when Thomas Jefferson bought Louisiana, and, later on, when Secretary Seward purchased Alaska. There is no imperialism in the present policy of the American Government. No reason obtains why a republic should not have colonies as well as an empire or a monarchy.—Kingston Daily Freeman. Hobion and Hi* Kia*. Now that the girls have begun kissing Hobson, it is high time for him to hurry to the front. —Boston Globe. Beware, take care, Hobson! There - is more peril in promiscuous kissing than there is in dynamite, and its victims ar* more numerous. —Boston Herald. Having shown an admiring world how he could handle anything nautical from a collier to a cruiser, Hobson has now demonstrated how gallantly he can handle a “smack"—whether it be nautical or merely naughty.—Philadelphia Record. As smart n man as Hobson and especially a person by that name is entitled to his own choice in such a purely personal matter. The United States pays him for his services in the navy, nnd gets it* money’s worth, but being a kissing block is not among the duties imposed by th* Government regulations.—Utica Pre**. • Dewey First and Last. Admiral Dewey made the entrance of the war and he makes tis exit as well. From first to Inst he has held the center of the stage.—Philadelphia Press. Admiral Dewey has won new laurels. His capture of Manila is likely to make him commander-in-chief of the whol* American fleet.—Boston Journal. Messrs- Dewey and Merritt have issued a protocol of their own whose terms will not need construction with the aid of a dictionary and a grammar.—Louis.villa Courier-Journal