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THE URATE TO THE BRAVE. Tho iiiiihI remarkably tribute t thf cuuiiut-ror by the comjurl 1 - tho following fare well of the HjiauUI noldirr failured at Matitiaifo to th American. llier: "Soldier of the. American Arm) WV would aot kw fuHUIing our dut) at well-born uifo tin whone bretiti tlier,livH gratitude a ad courtesy, should we mtxirk for our beloved Sjwio without at-nding to you oui tin w t corlial and sincere good witfhei- ami farewell. We fought you wit! ardor, with all our strength, emleav oring to gala the victory, but with- out the alightt-Ht ranror or hate to. ward the American nation. Wfc have been vamiuiahej by you (ho our Kt-neraN aud chiefojudgnd in Niguifig the capitulation), but our aurreoder and the bloody battle preceding li have left iu our souls no place for re. wiituient against the men who fought us nobly and gallantly. You fought in compliance with the aame call ot duty as we, for we all but repretieni the power of our respective coun tries. "You fought us as men, face to face, and wi'h great courage, as be fore stated, a quality which we have not met during I ho three yearn we have carried on this war against a M),,lo without morals, without con science and of doubtful origin, who could not confront the enemy, but bidden, shot their noble victims from ainbu.-h, and then immediately tied This was the kind of warfare we had to sustain in' this unfortunate lan You have complied exactly with all the laws and usages of war an recog nixed by the armies of the most civi! i.ed nations of the world; have giv en honorable burial to the dead of the vanquished; have cured their wound ed; with humanity have resected and cared for j our prisoners and their comfort, aud, lastly, to us, whose con dition was terrible, you have given freely of food, of your stock of med iciues, and you have honored us with distinguished courtesy, for, after the lighting, the two armies mingled with the utmost harmony. "With this high sentiment of api preciation from us, all there remains but to express our farewell, aud with the greatest sincerity, we wish you all happiness and health la this land which will not longer belong to our dear .Spain, but will be yours who have captured it by force and watered it with your blood, as your conscience called for, under the demand of civ ilizttion and humanity, but the do scemlarits of the Congo and of Guinea, mingled 'A ith the blood of unscrupu lous Spaniards and of traitors and ad venturers, these eople are not able to exercise or enjoy their lilierty, for they will tind it a burden to comply with the laws which govern civilized communities. "From 11,000 Spanish soldiers. "I'f.khu Lopkz De Castillo, "Soldier of Infantry. "Santiago de Cuba, Aug. 21, 1808." 8 it a ft Kit, Major General THE VAKtE AS A WAKKIOK. 1 he successes of the Uuited States iu the war with Spain and the losses on Uilli sides have led Ruert Hughe to write tho Yankee down as the su preme warrior. The article is high ly laudatory in style, but it contains tlgures and observations upecially In teresting at this moment. Mr. llug.ies, after a high tribute to thu courage and skill of the Amer ican soldier, says in Criterion (New York): "The nioMt noteworthy quality, however, of tho American soldier Is what R'ichefort called a particularly American trait, 'contempt of death.' It is true leyond cavil that the world has never known soldiers that hold or gain ground in the face of such a high percentage of loss, "The word 'decimation' is used for horrible slaughter, and the lor of one man in ten is certainly very heavy. In many armies it is believ ed to justify retreat. Hut with us whole armii s have suffered far great er losses. At Shiloh, Murfreesboro, and Chiekamauga the losses in killed and wounded ranged from 16 to 34 per cent. At Santiago (letieral Shaf fer's whole force has lost ovei 10 er cent iu killed and wounded. "As for single bodies of men, the Light Brigade made a foolish charge bravely and won immortality, thanks to a ureal lyric; it suit-red a loss ot :I7 H-r cent, killed aud wounded. "In the Civil War M2 men in the First Minnesota Volunteers charged a whole division at Gettysburg, aud, leaving 1.1 dead and wounded be tun I, brought away thr rebel colors. While the Light Brigade lont 37 per cent and accomplished nothing ex cept to immortalize a blunder, the First Minnesota loet 82 per tent and gained a vitally lniortant point. And as for useless bravery, what is the llttlaklavaii !17 per cent to the 75 H-r cent of the Maine Heavies in sevru iuinute charge in the battle of Petersburg? "Two German regiments lost re spectively -It! and 4'. per cent at Metz and Mar-l.-Tour, and the Twenty sixth Uusrian lost 75 Hrcentat Plev na. "But there were fifteen Union and tlve Confederate regiments that lost over "i per cent. The first Texas lost over S'J per cent at Antietaiu, and in one company of the Stith North Carolina only three men cwapod out of eighty-seven, a losa of more than !'! percent. "This hideous carnage was the re sult, not of our fighting aliens, but our fighting each other. And the history of the world has no parallel to it. Why, the tolal casualties of all our wars, French and Indian, Revol utionary, 1I-, Mexican aud Indian, lo not exceed the loss of Grant's trin y in the week ending Msy 12, IHO-1. ''Grant's killed and wounded li the Wilderness and 8pottlvaiii were five times Napoleon's loss at Marengo, more than bis losses in all his Italian campaign, three lime the loss liifliced on Wellington at Wat loo, "The reason for this unheard-of slnughtet? There is just one reason 'he most Intelligent, the brjvst, lh liercest soldiery In the world's hi tory was divided against itself. All that straight shooting, that battle fury, that determination wbieh doe not falter when d at h Is bus y on all sides all those qualities that make up the word 'Americanism' were turned inward at the nation's own h art. "The indomitable mag'iillcence ol tne Yankee soldier has lost none ol its luster to-day. Thereat Santiago our forces nude a landing without the loss of a life, invested the city and drove the Spanish through the jungle back to their labryinth of trenches, and were busily cleaaing them out of these with a fatal s rsist ence that did not lack the gcntleuer-K to plead wiih the enemy to avoid use. less sacrifice to further bit tie. "And another American regiment has gone up higher than the Bilak- ava or the Plevna heroes. For Cap tain Ducat of the 21th Regulars led a glorious charge up a long hill at Han Juan; he started with seventy-five men, and only tweuly-two of them reached tho blockhouse at the top. But though they lost fifty-seven killed, the important fact, the Amer ican fact, is that they captured what they went for. Tho ercentat;e of loss in men killed was 70, and if the number of wounded were known the percentage of casualties would be still greater. "Then there were the nineteen men of the 9th Infantry at El Caney, who entered a blockhouse through the roof and killed 35 Spaniards. They lost the first four iuho that dropped In, but after twenty minutes of hand- to-hand conflict there were fifteen hale Americans and no living Spaniards. Consider, too, the high percentage of losses among our officers. They have always led, not followed." AMERICA AS A WORLD l'OVYEK. English writers and politicians al most with one accord concede that the United States must liecome a World power with the acquisation of the West Indies and a share of Hie Philippines. What effect this will have upon international politics is a matter of most interesting specula tion to, them. A great many ingen ious theories are put forward. Mr. T. Lloyd, who writes the signed ed itorials in the Statist, is of the opin ion that the first move by the west ern giant will he made in the fur east. After saying that America must feel her way with colonies as Great Britain h is d ma aud after pointing out that the Iiritish empire through modificitions of colonial sl icy has become "a federation of fed erated states,'' Mr. Lloyd goes on to wy : "In the early part of the present century Euroie was controlled by five great powers GrHat Britain. trance, Austria, Prussia and Russia. Then for a short time Italy arose,nnl was admitted to the rank of a great power. Rut Italy has now broken lown, while Austria-Hungary seems io be disintegrating. Practically. therefore, there are only four great European powers, and nr. 1 now these four powers not only lorninated Europe, but Africa and Asia as well. The rise ot J (pan m id- itied the situation to a certain extent. Japan Is not yet, at all events great enough to interfere In Euroe, but In the far east she hus to be taken into account. Now, however, there is a Iramatiu change inasmuch as the United States steps into the arena. Of the resources of the United States, the skill, the courage, the ingenuity of its people, nobody can have any loubt. In extent it is ritual to all F.urope. In population it exceeds all European nations except Russia; and he population is growing so quickly that the time does not seem far dis- ant when it will he morn opulous even than Russia. Hut apart from mere number, the intelligence, the resourcefulness, the mechanical inyei. uityofthe American eoplo make hem infinitely more powerful than the Russians, while they di-poc of far more wealth. The United States then, will sjs'rtk in all international matters with a far more potent vole than any continental country. More over, the United States is so far re moved from the continent that no continental ower can ho to inflict upon it any serious it jury ; while all the probabilities are that the Amer can navy would sweep from thi seas before very long any continental navy. The new policy of the United States, then, makes an immensely greater change in the international ituation than the rise of Janan. "Assuming that there is no Inter vention by the continental power at the conclusion of the coming peace with Spain, it is not probable that the Uuited States will immediately intervene in Euroean affairs. The American people are hardly likely to reject altogether and at once the the advice of Washington. I It sides, if Spain makes peace bcfoie the Amer icans have to send an expedition to Europe, they will have no strong mo tive for intervening. Rtit it I per fectly certain that the time I not far distant when the United States will speak with an unequivocal and deter mined voice In the far east. It has just annexed Hawaii. It seern ssf,- to predict tha it wdl likewise annex j the Pbillm lnes. It will have to I keep up a h werftil '"; and It cit izens hav Jvaluabieeominercisl intr ests in Cuius. Tin r tor, tl Amer- lcnn iroveriiment will ! driven popular feeling lo luakn A"e rici opinion felt in the fur east, and it id hsve the rneansof giving effect to i policy. Rut although Ju-tai tirst th Auiericau people will Is- loath meddle wiih purely Eunqs an sffdr it is not ilitlicull lo -ee II. si even; may occur which ui I move iluiii action, just a Gen. WVjWa iioven ment of Cuba roued Ihem lo inuki war Ujn Spain. For example, if in- foiled Slals 111 out a great imv mil larirelv Im-reuM its arinv. and II thertt were to lie new uia-aeres in rurkey like tho- of the Armenian- a couple of year sgo, it s aliiiot ce- I tain that the churches in the Uniteti States would raise the cry that sucl a rod lies must be out an end to a oice." Mr. Lloyd rightly calls attention to I the tremendous increase of our pott - er which now all Euroias stems to realize better than we di. This in crease brings with it immense re sponsibilities which it (lis s not In come us to shirk by a timorous and hesi ating policy of di aling with the fruits of our conquest. A nation can not afford to evade duties war kid I out lor it any more than individuals can evade them. We never dreamed when entering upon lha war that it j would carry us so much farther than the liberation of Cuba, but we havt put our hands to the plowshare and it will not iH'come us to look buck. 'rbe part that it seems we must play- in the far East before many years is o ily a tiart of the work that was mapped out for the infant nation that was "cn.-t a bantling on the rock." But we shall not depart from the ideals of the Fathers of the constitu tion; we shall be realizing them, to a fuller and grsater extent than they recked of. "There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough hew them as we may." Fightiug Joe Wheeler thinks that he is giKsl for another campaign. He must have found that spring of etern al life for which Ponce de Leon sought 300 years ago. Baking Powder OREGON nklriil Exposition tia.-iis in Portland, September 22(1 Closes October 22d, 1898. The finest anil Greatest R position evi-r neiii in the northwest. HOETICULTUBAL aili AGRICULTURAL rrixliii'ts of Orinn and Vasliini;liin will I ilifipl.-iyeil in wonilerful pio-fu-i'in inrliiilirig more varic-lies than ever before gatlierrd to gether In one t-xliil.it. 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