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PHILIPPINE ISLANDS.
FREDERIC R. COUDERT FORETELLS
THE FATE OF THE PHILIPPINES.
Says the United States Can Hold Them
For Indemnity or Keep Thera as Part
of Her Territory—To Sell the Islands a
Valid Title to Them Is Needed.
Frederic R. Coudert, the eminent
lawyer and jurist who represented the
United States in the Bering sea com
mission, gave to the New York World
recently his views of the disposition of
the Philippines as follows:
"The United States has the right to
either hold the Philippines for indem
nity or to keep them altogether as part
of her territory, just as Germany took
Alsace-Lorraine in the Franco-Prussian
war. We may keep possession of them
until hostilities are ended, and then
their disposition will be one of the fac
tors in the making of peace.
"We would, of course, have to re
spect the vested rights of other nations
in the islands, if they have any. These
rights would include coaling stations,
liens or mortgages on custom houses
and claims of that nature. Spain can
not give to us any more than .she owns.
"If we can find sufficient indemnity
nearer home, for instance in Cuba, we
would possibly content ourselves with
holding the Philippines during hostili
ties for use as a military or nuval base,
but if adequate indemnity could not be
procured in this hemisphere, then wo
would hold Manilla until Spain paid
up. Some arrangement would be made
whereby we would keep possession for
a certain number of yearn while Spain
was paying the installments of tbe in
demnity. This is all a matter of con
tract and agreement between nations.
"In regard to the selling or transfer
of tbe islands to another power by tbe
United States, that could not be done
until we had a valid title to the islands,
FREDERIC R. COUDERT.
which can be obtained only by a treaty
of peace with Spain in which she cedes
the islands to us. Otherwise we would
be selling a disputed title, and the coun
try that purchased it would have to
reckon with Spain. Tbe law is the same
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private persons, urns law was ooservea
between France and Austria in 1859,
when Piedmont was turned over by
Austria to France and by Franoe hand
ed over to King Victor ffiitfmanuql. The
theory of modern times is that a princi
pality or province should not be turned
over to another nation without the con
sent of its people, and a plebiscite is usu
ally held, as in the case of Nice and
Savoy.
"Once having secured title from
Spain, however, by-a treaty of peace,
there could be no legal international
objection to our disposing of the islands
either by ceding or selling them to any
nation we chose or by offering them to
the highest bidder, but suoh a proceed
ing would cause jealousy and bad feel
ing among the nations. But this is not
a war of conquest, and I do not think
tbe United States would resort to any
suoh practice. But we have a legitimate
claim against Spain for the expenses of
tbe war, and Spain must pay tbe costs.
When that is done, the Uuited States,
I believe, will relinquish all claims to
the Philippine islands and return tbem
to Spain.
"As to the effect of Dewey's victory,
I think it amounts to half the war. The
Spanish fleet in the Pacific is destroyed.
It only remains to destroy the Cape
Verde fleet, and Spain's fighting will be
at an end. She has no money, and, as
a wise old king of France once said,
'The king who has got the last gold
piece is going to win.'
"Money settles all these things, and
a most hopeful sign is that Spanish fours
went up immediately after the destruc
tion of the Manilla fleet, just as French
bonds went up after the battle of Water
loo, although the emperor was crushed.
It means that the people who deal in
those bonds regard the war as practi
cally over."
Byron on Spain.
Here all were noble save nobility.
None hugged a conqueror's chain save fallen
chivalry.
Such be tbe sons of Spain, und strange the
fate—
They light for freedom who were never free!
A kingless people for a nerveless state,
Her vassals combat when their chieftains
flee.
True to the veriest slave of treachery,
Fond of a land which gave them nuught but
life,
Pride points the path that leads to liberty,
Back to the struggle, baffled in the strife,
Wur, war is still the cry—war even to the
knife 1
Ve who would more of Spain and Spaniards
know,
Qo read whate'er is writ of bloodiest strife.
Whate'er keen vengeance urged on foreign too
Can act is acting jere against man's life.
From flashing seimiter to secret knife
War nioldeth there each weapon to his need,
So may such foes deserve the most remorseless
deedl
Flaws there a tear of pity for the dead?
Look o'er the ravage of the reeking plain.
Look on the hands with female slaughter red.
Then to the dog' resign the unburied slain.
Then to the vulture let each corse remuin.
Albeit unworthy of the prey bird's maw,
Let their bleach'd bones and blood's un
bleaching stain
Long mark the battlefield with hideous awe.
Thus only may our sons conceive the scenes
WTT TTLIW.
—'"Childe Harold."
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TWELVE YEARS OLD. EXIRA, IOWA THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1898. $1.00 PER YEAR
LIKE DASHING TARRAGUT
Commodore George
Comes of Good Old
Dewey
Stock.
IS A YANKEE OF THE YANKEES.
He Dearly Loves Children and Is a Ter
ror In a Figlit—Trained First to Be
Soldier—His Old Home at Montpelier
and His Townsmen's Pride In Him—His
Experience on the Mississippi In 1863.
If you will carefully read what fol
lows about Acting Rear Admiral George
Dewey, you will better understand why
the American men-o'-war under Dew
ey 'Bcommand smashed the Spanish fleet
in the bay of Manilla and wiped out of
existence the vessels commanded by the
sailor whom the dons delighted to hon
or as "the fighting Monti jo."
The Spanish braves have been calling
us "Yankee pigs," Yankee this and
that. Of course this whole nation is de
lighted to be known by tbe generio
name "Yankee," but it will not please
the Spaniards to learn that George Dew
ey is a true Yankee, a Yankee of the
Yankees, a down easter, born of good
American stock, in whose veins flows
the best blood of Vermont and New
Hampshire.
Dewey firBt breathed the free air
among the green hills of Vermont 61
years ago. He was born in a fine old
colonial honse on State street, Montpe
lier. The acting rear admiral's father
was Dr. Julius Y. Dewey, now dead, a
fine gentleman of the old school, re
membered and honored for his integrity
and force of character. Commodore
Dewey's mother was a very beautiful
woman, born in Vermont too. The old
colonial house at Montpelier has long
been the center of the best society in
the state, and besides being noted for
her beauty Mrs. Dr. Dewey was famed
for her hospitality and social
graceB.
The young George Dewey was early
educated in the Montpelier publio
schools. He wanted to go to 6ea, but
that he should be a sailor did not meet
his father's wishes. So they came to a
kind of compromise. The young man
went from the public schools to the
Norwich university at Northfield, Vt.,
a military school, where, if he oould
not learn to be a sailor, he could be
taught how to shoulder a musket and
drill. Incidentally he bad some very good
training in pacing a deck, for one form
of discipline at the Northfield school
was to punish an offender by making
him walk, Bhouldering a musket, a cer
tain number of times around a big elm
tree on the school grounds. This big
elm had very widespreading roots, so
that tbe punishment was more severe
than it sounds, and George Dewey
tasted some of it. He was a quiet young
fellow. His father did not approve of
fighting. He told his son, "Never fight,
but when you do fight for all you are
worth." It would seem that tbe son has
borne in mind this advice. He remem
bered it at the Northfield school—and
so he walked around the elm tree once
in awhile.
When he was 17 years old, Dewey
won his way, and his family's influence
had him appointed to the Naval academy
in 1854. He was graduated from An
napolis in 1858 and went on the steam
frigate Wabash, cruising with the Medi
terranean squadron until 1859. When
Fort Sumter was fired on, Dewey was
in Montpelier, but he did not stay
there. His Yankee blood was up. Just
one week later, April 19, 1861, he was
commissioned lieutenant and was as
signed at once to the steam sloop Mis
sissippi
fierce fighting of the west gulf squad
ron. Captain Melancthon Smith com
manded tbe
MissiBBippi,
On the Mississippi Dewey learned
the same heartbreaking lesson he taught
"the fighting Monti jo"—how to lose
his ship. Admiral David D. Porter, in
his "Naval History of the Civil War,"
thus describes the end of the Mississip
pi, which came on the river she was
named after while she was trying to
run Port Hudson's powerful batteries:
"The steamship Mississippi, Captain
Melanothon Smith, followed in the
wake of the Monongahela, firing when
ever her guns oould be brought to bear.
At 11 :S0 o'clock she reaohed the turn
which seemed to give our vessels so
much trouble, and Captain Smith was
congratulating himself on the prospeot
soon catoliing up with the flag offl-
of
cer when his ship grounded and heeled
over three streaks to port. The engines
were instantly reversed and the port
guns run in in order to bring her on an
even keel, while the fire from her star
board battery was reopened upon the
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REAR ADMIRAL SAMPSON
THE OREGON
xorts. rne engines were oacKea wun an
the steam that could be put npon them,
and the backing was continued for 80
minutes, but without avail. It was now
seen that it would be impossible to get
the ship afloat. Captain Smith gave the
order to spike tbe port battery and
throw the guns overboard, but it was
not done, for the enemy's ffae was be
coming so rapid and severe that the
captain deemed it judicious to abandon
the ship at once in order to save the
lives of the men. While preparations
were being made to destroy the ship the
sick and the wounded were lowered in
to boats and conveyed astiore, while the
men at tbe starboard battery continued
to fight insplendid style, firing at every
flash of the enemy's guns. The small
arms were thrown overboard and all
possible damage was done to engine and
everything else that might prove of use
to the enemy.
"Tbe ship was first set on fire in the
forward stoseroom, but three shots came
through below her water line and put
out the flames. She was then set fire in
four places aft, and when the fiames
were well under way, so as to make her
destruction certain, Captain Smith and
his first lieutenant (George Dewey) left
the ship,' all the officers and crew hav
ing been landed before. The Mississippi
was soon in a blaze fore and aft, and as
she was now relieved of a great deal of
weight—by the removal of her crew and
tbe destruction of her upper works—she
floated off the bank and drifted down
the river, much to the danger of the
Union vessels below but she passed
without doing them any injury, and at
6:80 o'clock blew up and went to the
bottom."
Montpelier first felt a spark of the
enthusiasm which fires the old New
England town today when Dewey re
turned to his native place a captain of
the United States navy. You must un
derstand that there are not more than
5,000 people in the city. Every one
knows everybody else and no man can
be happy there unless the old people
knew his grandfather and knew his
grandfather to be an honorable man. So
which was to take part in the the old people were very glad to wel-
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a side wheeler
of 17 guns, and, while fighting—un
fortunately—with men of Anglo-Saxon
blood, his brothers, Dewey learned some
lessons that have stood him in good
stead with the Spaniards. The west
gulf squadron was ordered to force its
way up the Mississippi river. The ship
preceded Farragut past New Orleans,
and the "History of Our Navy" thus
describes some of the training Dewey
got then:
"The Pensacola and the Mississippi
steamed slowly, with their black hulls
at irregular intervals sheeting the air
with lurid fire as they replied to the
forts. Abreast of St. Philip, where the
Confederate fire was hottest, they drew
in so close that the gunners afiout and
those ashore heartily cursed eaoh other
as they worked."
oome Captain George Dewey, U. S. N.
But the children were a little afraid of
his stern, penetrating eye, his bushy
eyebrows, his big mustache. That did
not please Dewey, for he loves children,
So he took the trouble to win the chil
dren of Montpelier to him. He would
gather the boys and girls in the after
noon from the capitol grounds across
the way into the grounds around his
home. He took them driving and he told
them stories about sailormen until the
little girls were almost frightened and
all the boys were determined to be cap
tains in the United States navy. He
had one fine story about the voyage of
Noah's ark that Montpelier boys who
are men now still remember. Tbe boys
and girls called him "Uncle Captain."
"Unole Captain" with boys and girls,
telling fine stories about the ark's 40
days' oruise acting rear admiral with
the Spaniards, bidding them hand over
their guns and torpedoes, or be bom
barded—such is George Dewey.—New
York World.
Listen to JLIIIS.
The Cherokee boys have invented a
yell which they roll out on the air with
all the vim of a football team from a
college. It runs like this:
Cuba, Cuba, bow, wow, wow.
Liberty, liberty, chow, chow, chow.
Vengeance, vengeance, down with Spain.
Iowa, Iowa, remember the Maine 1
—Council Bluffs Nonpareil.
Captain "Girlie" AdaniB Will Lead Them.
Chadron (Neb.) women have organ
ized a cavalry company to go to Cuba to
fight the Spaniards. The company will
be led by Captain "Girlie" Adams, a
brave frontier woman of that city, who
has devoted much time to the matter of
recruiting the company and securing the
necessary equipments.—Rocky Moun
tain News.
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LANDS NEAR HAVANA.
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First Military Expedition is Safely
Lodged on Cuban Soil.
RUSH SUPPLIES TG DEWEY.
Cruiser Charleston Ordered to Sail for
Manila at Once—Troops at Mobile
Waiting for Orders to Move—Spain
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Has One Ship Less in Its Navy.
NEW YORK, May 11.—A Key West
special says that information has
reached that place of the landing with
in 50 miles of Havana of the expedition
under command of Captain Dorst,
Fourth cavalry, which left Tampa yes
terday, on board the transport Gussie.
TAMPA, Fla., May 11.—Captain Dorst
left here yesterday with a transport
loaded with ammunition for the Cuban
forces. His orders are to scout along
the coast and send supplies ashore at
different insurgent posts. He takes a
Gatling gun, two companies of artillery
and rations for 30 days. This expedi
tion is entirely independent of the
troops that are to invade the island.
Breaking Camp at Clilckautauga.
CIIATTAJJOOGA, Tenn.,May 11.—Camp
George H. Thomas at Chickamauga
park is rapidly undergoing demolition.
At daybreak this morning the work of
breaking camp was begun by a number of
the regiments and in a few hours there
after, places which have been covered
with white tents for some time, were
again vacant and deserted. Officers and
men of all regiments now remaining are
giving their time and attention to the
preparations for departure and the
regular routine of camp life has been
entirely suspended. The first troops to
go are those of the Third cavalry. They
were loaded on special trains at Ross
ville about 9 o'clock, and started
through to Tampa over the Southern
railway. The Sixth cavalry got out a
few hours later.
Active Movement Against Cuba.
KEY WEST, May 11.—It is said here
that if the report that the Spanish fleet
has returned to Spain proves to be cor
rect, an active movement against Cuba
may occur in 4b hours. It is possible
that Rear Admiral Sampson at Porto
Rico and Commodore Remey here may
strike simultaneously. If it were de
sided to land troops at Baliia Honda,
Matanzas or any other point, the ves
sels here, together with the ships on
the blockading station, would have no
difficulty in covering a landing with
the aid of the heavy armored lighting
ships.
Loading Transports at Tauipa.
TAMPA BAY HOTEL, Fla., May 11.—
Everything possible is being done to
facilitate the work of loading the trans
ports at Port Tampa with ammunition
and supplies for the expedition. All
last night and all of today hundreds of
men were kept busy unloading the war
material from the freight cars and
carefully stowing it away in the trans
ports. This part of the work will he
practically concluded by tomorrow
night and the ships in the slip will drop
anchor in the bay to make room for
other transports.
Waiting for Orders to Move.
MOBILE, May 11.—In the camps of
the regulars and volunteers all is quiet.
No orders to move have been received
at either camp, although the officers are
looking lor some at any moment, and
are ready to go to the front promptly.
With the regulars and state troops com
bined, there are 5,000 men encamped
here.
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and Homestead,
Poultry Farmer
and the Institute
Monthly—all for
Spain's fl«t Retreats
Cape Verde Squadron turns back and puts in at
Cadiz.—Safety of the Oregon assured and the way
clear for operations in Cuba.—Possibility of a de
scent through the Suez Canal and attack on
Dewey.—Naval strategists much concerned as to
the next step of the Castilian Fleet.—Prospect for
a long war increased, and likelihood that Ameri
can war vessels may have to be sent to attack the
coast of Spain.—Crisis fast approaching in the
Cuban capital.—Famine imminent in Havana and
only the rich can purchase the simlest food.—
Crushing defeat anticipated.—Troops for Cuba
Two companies of First Infantry the pioneer in
vaders.—Transport carries supplies, small arms
and cannon for Gomez.—Army at Chickamaugna
ordered to start for Tampa without delay.—Di
rections to State Troops to mobilize at Central
Camps changed to cammands to hasten to Tampa,
and start for Cuba—Volunteers will follow on the
heels of the Regulars.—Cabinet pushing the in
vasion.—General Miles preparing for the field.—
The Second Iowa Regiment (now known as the
Fiftieth Iowa Infantry) to move to New Orleans.
Insurgents massacre Spaniards at the Philippine.
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SPAIN LOSES A WAR SHIPS
Torpedo Boat Destroyer Wrecked by
Boiler Explosion.
LONDON, May 11.—A dispatch to the
Globe from Gibraltar says a British
steamer, which has just arrived there,
reports officially that she passed yester
day evening a Spanish torpedo boat de
stroyer, which was guarding Algeciras
bay and straits. Shortly after the
steamer passed her all the lights of the
destroyer were extinguished, a terrific
explosion followed immediately and the
destroyer disappeared. The disaster,
the dispatch adds, was apparently
caused by the explosion of the boilers of
the torpedo boat destroyer. It is feared
that all on board of her have perished.
Cavalry Orderml to New Orleans.
WASHINGTON, May 11.—The Fifth
regiment of United States cavalry, scat
tered at various posts throughout Texas'
and with headquarters at Fort Sam
Houston, has beeu ordered to proceed
immediately to New Orleans. Later it
will be sent to Cuba, although it is not
yet settled whether the regiment will
be a part of the first expedition to the
island.
North Dakota Troops t*o to Philippines.
BISMARCK, N. D., May 11.—Governor
Briggs received a telegram from the
war department today stating that both
battalions of North Dakota volunteers
would be ordered to San Francisco,
presumably to make a portion of the
troops to be sent to the Philippine is
lands.
Spanish fllob Burns a Warehouse.
LONDON, May 11.—A special dispatch
from Madrid says a mob burned a huge
grain warehouse there early this morn
ing. The structure is reported to be a
total loss.
No Word From Sampson.
WASHINGTON, May 11.—At noon no
word had been received here from Ad
miral Sampsop
Relief Supplies For Dewey.
WASHINGTON, May 11.—The cruiser
Charleston has been ordered to sail im
mediately with ammunition and relief
supplies for Admiral Dewey. She will
leave San Francisco today without
waiting for the rest of the relief steam
ers and supplies.
sfeivell Will Stick to His Seat.
WASHINGTON, May 11.—Major Gen
eral Sewell has decided to decline the
position of major general tendered him
by the president. This conclusion was
reached after receiving a verbal opinion
from Attorney General Griggs that it
was unconstitutional to hold a seat in
the senate and a commission in th?
army at the same time.
New York Stock Market.
NEW YORK, May 11.—The majority
of stocks showed small losses at the
opening, in sympathy with declines for
Americans in London, but there were
some important exceptions on the side
of gains. St. Paul, in face of a decline
of in London, sold simultaneously at
an unchanged price md up to above
last night's close.
Proceedings in the Seuate.
WASHINGTON, May 11.—When the
senate convened today, the national
quarantine bill was displaced as the
unfinished business and the bill to pro
vide for taking the Twelfth and subse
quent censuses substituted. The cen
sus bill will be pressed vigorously.
To Increase Tax on Tobacco.
WASHINGTON, May 11.—The senate
committee on finance decided at its
meeting today to increase the tax on
manufactured tobacco in the war rev
enue bill from 12 cents, the house rate,
to 10 cents per pound, and to exempt
the stock on hand from the operations
of the act.
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