The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1896-05-02
CARTOONED AS HOGS.
A SPANISH PAPER IN CUBA HAS FUN
WITH OUR sOLONs.

How the Officers. Clerks and orderlies of
the Spanish Army In Havana Are Enter
tained-Their Ignorance of American
Sentinent-Queer Spanish Humor.
The war in Cuba is not without its
humor-Spanish as well as American
humor. Don Quijote is the cartoon pa
per of Havana. 1t extracts'fun out of
the war situations and presents the gro
tesque in colors. When the statement is
made that there are on detailed duty at
Havana, as officers, clerks, orderlies
and in other headquarters capacities,
40, 900 members Of the Spanish army,
ing literature will be appreciated. Don
Quijote seems to enjoy considerable
popularity although an American would
find it difficult to tell why. The paper
is not only for sale at the numerous
news stands, but copies are tackled on
bulletin boards or protected in frames
at the cigar booths, in the cafes and
other frequented places to attract pass
ers and to stimulate trade.
1t cannot be said that the cartoonist
has done entire justice to his subject. He
might at least have selected type o
little less calculated to wound American
pride If he had gone to the advertising
matter of the pork packers, he could
have fond character of hog upon which
Americans could have looked with GER
tain degree Of complacency. But the hog
with which the artist Of Don Quijote
has seen fit to typify the Americans is
most disroputable looking beast He
isn't even distinct breed. He has the
nose of the razorback, the tusks of the
peccary of Texas and the body of the. Or
binary porker. This kind of hog the art
list puts into a suit Of clothes made of
the American flag ard labels as any
American public man who has been con-
spicuOus in the Cuban developments at
Washington.
The latest Issue Of Don Quijote pre-
sents "a group of those Yankee SEN
ators. Where the American humor
finds food is in the personalities. With
out discrimination Don Quijote groups
friend and foe of Spain. He makes
hogs of all of them. Senator Hale of
Maine has been a thick and thin de-
fender Of Spain in all of the senatorial
discussions, so much so that he is known
in the cloakrooms as the Spanish sena-
tor. Yet Senator Hale is held up to
Spanish derision as an American hog in
the group with the fiercest of the jim
goes - Morgan, Cameron and Call.
Sherman is included, although he has
left the senate and entered the cabinet.
Don Quijote varies the hog idea, in
the latest issue, so far as to represent
distinction without a difference be
tween the Cleveland and the Mckinley
administrations.
The president and the ex-president
are offered fog Spanish ridicuIe in the
forms of two bobtailed pug dogs strug-
CLING to be first at dish Of bones label
ed Cuba. - Uncle Sam is holding them
back. The American sense of humor
grasps the fact that those bones have
been picked SO we'll before the pugs
reach them that they glisten.
Don Quijote's wit does not mislead
the Spanish element of the population
as to the truth of history The late adj
ministration's relations to Cuba are
we'll understood. A few days ago the
dispatches brought the news that the
eX-president might visit the gulf of
Mexico on Mr.. Benedict's yacht. The
leading ultra loyal Spanish residents of
Havana came together and began pre-
parations for an elaborate reception Of
Mr.. Cleveland.
Don Quijote' S cartoons are not as sig
nificant as they were three months ago.
The American no longer encounters
scOwls as he goes about his business. He
is persona grata in, Havana now Two
things have conduced to this. One is
the growing desire for peace and the
feeling that the United States is to play
a conspicuous part in the settlement.
The other is the natural impression
made by Consul General Lees single
handed course in defense of the rights
of American citizens, for, without bias
or prejudice on the Cuban question,
without reference to politics or to sec
tiOns, it can be said General Lee has
proved the right man for this emergen-
cy. He has stood up firmly for interna-
tional justice, and hereafter the rights
of naturalized citizens of the United
States will have a new meaning. st.
Louis GlObe-DemOcrat.