The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-05
SPANISH as SHE Is WRIT.
What the People OF Montana Think Of
the Infanta Of Spain.


Apropos Of the visit Of the Spanish In
fanta 70 this country the following from
the Anaconda Standard humorouslv de
scribes the interest that is felt in Mon
tana in the royal guest:
Ever since the announcement Of Prin-
cess Eulahe's proposed visit to Montana
the esteemed, elegant and eruditt Helena
independent has been lowering the atti-
tude Of its vest, dipping into its COPY of
CerYantes and industriously brushing up
us spanish with a view not only of filling
the lnfanta with an adequate sense of the
greatness and grandeur of Montana. its
meXhaustlblc gold and silver and precious
stones, its bOunteOus harvests. its count
less Hooks and herds, its mighty and ma
lestlc mountains, its ornaments of for
eSJS, the solemn splendOr of its scenery.
and all that; but also, and more especi-
ally, OF bringing her mind to a quick and
mastering realization of the fact that here
IN the very heart of the far. wild west
Is city whose people she could meet
on terms Of social equality; that here in
Helena, albeit a city dead in some re
spects and dropping in many others, for
all the world just like her own Madrid
she would ind the polite manners. the
polished amenities, the gracious gentili-
Ules-all the punctilious niceties of speech
and action that she left behind her at her
gay and glittering court that here, in
short, would burst upon her a city of ele-
gance and refinement people of culture.
profoundly versed, among an illimitable
wealth of other things in Castilian lore
and literature; up in Cervantes. CaballerO,
De Trueba, Valera. LOpe de Vega, Lopez
de Ayala and the rest of that noble, bril-
liant and fascinating outfit singing her
delicious Spanish love songs to mandolin
Accomplishments, and whenever occasion
required dropping gracefully into the soft,
sweet language Of Hispania and yanking
the very stufling out of its magnificent
vocabulary.
This being its purpose, its hope and its
inspiration, the chivalric Independent fell
down gasping in a fit of horror yesterday
at the discovery that, owing to a mon
strOus and merciless bull on the part of
the enrolling clerks of the last legislature,
the motto on the great seal of Montana is
Ora y plata, - which it freely translates
into Pray for silver instead of the reg
ulatiOn thing, "OrO Y plata" We cast
aside the Independents Undignifed and
lrreverent suggestion that it may be well
enough to let it stay ora" instead of
''orO, on the theory that silver needs
praying for. Ora" may be very good
Latin, but isn't good Spanish for pray"
anu tiAO l-uAu NUulu never answer Llle
prayers of a people who left their state
motto in such slip-shOd state as that.
What IS to be done2 Shall the infanta
be delicately notified that Montana is not
quite ready to receive her. and shall the
governor call an extra session at once and
have the error roctifedl Assuredly, it
will never do to let the princess come
within gunshot of the seal in its present
condition. We agree with the Independ-
ent that only the purest Castilian must
be used in her presence. Independent of
the Independent, the Standard has itself
a very large and extra choice stock OF the
real unadulterated article, which it has
been saving up for the express purpose.
Acierta errandO No es orc TODD. No hay
cerradura 81 es de orc gauzua Ofrecer
muchO, especie es de negus. Verdad es
verde. Mas vale saber que haben
We defy the esteemed Independent or
any other competent critic to attack the
purity of that Spanish. And these selec-
tions are only a sample of what we can do
when we want to- There are plenty more
where they came from, in the back part
of the unabridged dictionary. And as the
immortal AlonzO de SolorOzano wrote to
Estaban Gonzalez in relation to the edict
of Nantes: 30, Hutcho, come offo Y
perchO.n