The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-06-04
HOW SPAN|ARDS SEE US.
Amazing Ignorance Of Our
Country Shown by
Madrid Papers.

OtlGI QEDpiG llluk Oh us, anu llSIc ID q
particular piquancy just now in knowing
what the Spaniards think, says the
Washington Times, Not long ago an
American boy who is studying in Paris
got hold of a bundle of Spanish newspa-
pers. and he and his chums were highly
amused over the contents. After those
boys had searched the papers carefully
for items relating to America, they made
extracts of such items and forwarded the
result to the mother of one of them. II
will be remembered that sixty-seven PEI
cent. of the Spanish population cannot
read. and the people who can read are
furnished with this sort of information
.AlI the troops of the Yankees are in
the far western part of the country, many
thousand miles from the Atlantic coast.
There are only a few thousand men, all
told, and they are i'll paid and i'll fed,
and not willing to fight. To utilize this
force 1t will be necessary TO bring it to
the eastern seaboard. There is but one
railway by which it can be transported,
and it is an old and poorly constructs
affair. At one place this railroad passes
over Niagara Falls, a cataract 1000 feet
high, near Labrador. At last accounts
the bridge at this place was in a very
dangerous condition. 1t need surprise 70
one to learn that some agency had made
it still more So. 1t would serve the hate
full pigs of Yankees right if their miser-
able army was: thus drowned"
That is from TEL Heraldo de Madrid
a leading newspaper. The same paper
suggests that the Spanish fleet run over
to America and lombard Chicago and
49, - AxJ hnro8 fo a 2xrfnur mn
the internal condition of the Republic.
which appeared on April 2 in the Inn
parcial,'' a leading newspaper which
compares itself, to its satisfaction. with
the London Times
But behind and beyond the natural
fear of Americans to meet the brave
Spanish army upon and or our gallant
navy upon the sea. is the danger the
Yankee Republic runs of facing a revo-
luton at home. 1t is a fact we'll known
to all European statesmen that only by
means of armed force stationed in the
late Confederate States has the Washing
ton Government been able to preserve
the semblance of peace. Even now the
new generation of the Confederacy is but
waiting for the word to evo When
war is declared General Lee, who has
been CDnsul-G General at Havana, and who
was kicked out of Cuba by Governor
General Blanco, will raise the standard
of revolt and the Did Southern Confed-
eracy. This Lee is the same Lee who
was General-in-Chief of the Civil War in
1850 to 1856. and whose surrender to Gen
eral Lincoln in the last-named year broke
the revolution. His acts at Havana were
for the purpose of plunging the Govern
ment into war with the Kingdom of Spain,
at which time he and his followers would
rise against Senior Mackindley:
sit is not likely that Spain will find
the United States opposing her, for the
Government at Washington will be busily
engaged in putting down a civil war"
The idea of Internal revolutions in
America seems to be quite prevalent in
Spain. In this same ape April 20, APP
pears a dispatch from Havana, saying
WORD has just been received here tina
the Indians are rising against the Yam
KEGS in Illinois, Ohio and other places.
The farmers are petitioning the Govern
ment to protect them from the blood
thirsty savages, who are burning house
and killing on every side. Troops are
asked for at Colorado, in the State Of
- 0kif ~ oA3A q !. ~ LIS 10 H4
Al possible reason for these catastrophes
is evolved by the 'fHeraldo":-
News is brought to us that Buffalo
Bill, a notorious outlaw and eader Of a
band of half breeds, has risen against the
American Government, n is burning
towns near his birthplace in New York.
Unless Colonel Cody contemplates m.
early Invasion of Madrid, and has ar
ranged for advance advertising, there
seems to be no explanation for such q ru-
NOR as that.
The s'Dfario," also of Madrid, fairly boils
over with information o Mr.. Mckin-
ley. 1T said in one of its extras:-
THE Yankee President, Magnify, com
mitted suicide for fear the Spanish fleet
would capture New York"
Next day it issued another extra cor
srecting this and stating that he died
from d wound inflicted by a brave Span
lard. Then it gives a biography of say
eral famous Americans and ~vouchsafes
this priceless gem of truth
Magnify is a naturalized Chinaman,
having been born at Canton"
But it is when dealing with this general
character of the country that the Spanish
imagination really runs riot Ind tumb,es
over itself with exultation. Listen TO
this row.
The sImparcial":-"We nave repeated
" called attention to- the fact that the
Americans are ignorant swine, who can-
not take care of themselves under any
circumstances. That they are imbeeiles
IS shown by the fact that at Philadelphia
the other day, a boiler burst in a cigar
factory n killed twenty-seven people.