The age-herald., 1897-10-01
AS SPAIN SEES US.
Yankee Civilization as k Appears in the Land
 of the Cortez.
Frcm Esi Imparcial of Madrid.

Frcim Fl Imparcial of Madrid.
 AmoTlg q her favors which we owe
 to our good friends, the Yankees, noG tho
 least are those which their newspape s,
 their meetings and their congress itself
 offer-that the Spanish are an uneul-
 Gured people. coarse and behind the
 times, when at The turn of every l,tYle
 street one may meet a ''Torquemada." !"
 Woodford llimeslf, who, in paoof of his
 friendship and sympathy for Spain, had
 scarcely arrived at San Sebas ian wh n he purchased a mantilla and expressed g. wish to see a bullfgh., and went out from the arena thororghy1 diFgustsd and yowfng never again to witness a specthcIa so vile, so repu1sive, 50 bloody. Clearly the Yankees, standand-b arers of civilization, nave a right 10 feel indig- nation and anger at the backwardneas of our land. They, on the ether hand, in their own country, and fin fore.gn on s, exhibit a fineress cf feeling, a dslicacy of customs, a love for their felTow-crea- lures, an infinite cfatl.y, a respect for right and jus ice. %
 Thousands of examples could be of fered of their uperiority-physically as we'll as morally Directly we are gong to cite few Of the most recent examples in order that we may be shamsfaced, hang down our heads and Gry to fmitafe @ those lofty deeds by which the Yankee
 pioclaim through all the would thsir per- fection in their customs, in their educa-
 ton and an I.Eeir laws.
 A few days ago there land d at Genoa
 a detachment of men from the United
 States ship Raleigh. The marines divid-
 ed into small parties, amused them selves
 throughout ,ilre city in a state of drunk
 enness and some of the brutal ones re-
 fused to pay the expenses Incurred in the
 drinlyipr places; others collected in a line and blocked the progress of peace- ful pedestrians; others occupied car riage and refused to pay flor the hire, depriving the poor driver of hfs fee, so that neither in the consulate nor on board sihe cruiser could he obtain redress nor find any one to Rslten to his com plaints.
 But this may be an exception. In their own homes the Yankees do not
 proceed thus. A recent English news
 paper publishes the remarkable infor-
 nation that during the last month of
 July there only occurred in all the towns
 of the great lepublic seven lynchings-
 that Is, in the preSencs of the authoIi- ties.
 Seven in one month! A mere baga- telle!
 And, by the way. Philadelphia offered some days ago high and worthy exam pie of what is humane spectacls-an entertainment, cultured and refined; a contest between two very famous boxers the flower and acme of what is brutal end what is brute strength. The arena was resplendent; for the most lowly places one had to pay 8; a Monte Cristo there would have been able to fill his card case with illustrious names.> In the corridors were numerous bettors shout ing the odds in favor of one or the other of the pugilists. The entertainment was magnificent. Many thousands of dollars changed hands. and when the "stage hands'' dragged away from the arena the body of the conquered boxSr these lofty, these powerful, risese emineno these cultured, these civilized men ap- plauded with fervor the winner. who