Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1898-05-26
President Committed Suicide.
HE FEARED THE SPANISH FLEET
WOULD CAPTURE AND DE-
STROY CHICAGO.
Buffalo Bill Burning American Towns
and Killing People in New York
What the Spanish Press Knows
of America and Her People.
From the Memphis lrennl Appeal.

United StateS,Spaln certainty possess
es monopoly OF the green journal
ism of the world. But they are mere
amateurs compared with the molders
of published falsehood on the Spanish
press. Americans will be delighted,
however, to learn what the Spanish
press thinks of the war, and to see
what an intelligent conception 1t has
of the situation in the United States.
The Impartial, which is considered the
leading paper of Madrid, has made
very important discovery, 80 replete
with new and bewildering historical
Information that we cannot refrain
from quoting the following paragraph
for the benefit of those benighted
Americans who don't know any bet
ter:
But behind and beyond the natural
fear of Americans to meet the brave
Spanish army upon land or our gal"
liant navy upon the sea, is the danger
the Yankee republic runs of facing a
revolution at home. 1t is fact we'll
known to all European statesmen that
by means of armed force stationed in
the late Confederate States has the
Washington government been able to
preserve the semblance of peace.
Even now the new generation of the
Confederacy is but waiting for the
word to revolt. When war is declared
Gen. Lee, who has been Consul Gem
eral at Havana, and who was kicked
out of Cuba by Governor-General
Blanco, will raise the standard of re-
volt in the old Southern Oonfederacy.
This Lee is the same Lee who was gem
| eral-in-chief of the civil war in 1850 to
| 1856 and whose surrender to Gen. Lin
| coin in the last named year broke the
revolution. His acts at Havana were
for the purpose of plunging the gov
| ernment into war with the kingdom of
| Spain, at which time he and his fol-
lowers would rise against Senior Mac
kindiey. 1t is not likely that Spain
will find the United States opposing
her, for the government at Washing
ton will be busily engaged in putting
down a civil war.
But another paper, Ell Heraldo de
Madrid, has made discovery which
may well alarm these United States
from one end to the other:
4 All tuS tEOOpS VI tu6 hhkoSS
bare in the far western part of the
country, many Thousand miles from
the Atlantic coast. There arc only
a few thousand men, all told, and they
are ilI-paid and ILL fed and not willing
to fight. To utilize this force it will
be necessary to bring 1t to the eastern
seaboard. There is but one railway
by which it can be transported and
that is an old ana poorly constructed
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 very dangerous condition. 1t
need surprise no one to hear that some
agency had made it still more SO. 1t
would serve the hateful pigs of
Yankees right if their miserable army
was thus drowned.
1t has been suspected for some time
that the corduroy bridge over Niagara
Falls was not in good condition. The
Labrador end of 1t is known to be
rotten and most of the trestle work
on the Manitoba terminus of the bridge
has been washed out by the Mississippi
floods. The government should have
built a railroad over the Chilkoot
Pass through the Klondyke to
Florida, so that we would not have
been at the mercy of single line.
Ell Diario is another Spanish paper
which blurts out American news that
has been kept from US. In green
extra recently it said:
"The Yangee Presidente, Magginly,
Icommitted suicide for fear the Spanish
feet would capture Sheekago.".
The next day it corrected this and
said that he died from a wound inflicted
by brave Spaniard. In biograph-
ical sketch of several Americans El
Diario says:
| "Magginly Is naturalized China
man, having been born at Canton"
But we feel satisfied that Magginly
is the last Chinaman that will ever
occupy the Presidential chair.
Under date of April 20 the Impartial
and the Tempo have the following
dispatch from Havana:
Word has just been received here
that the Indians are rising against the
Yankees in Illinois, Ohio and other
places. The farmers are petitioning
the government to protect them from
the bloodthirsty savages, who are
burning houses and killing on every
side. Troops are asked for at Colo