The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1898-06-09
What the Press of Spain Thinks of
The United States.
NEW FACTS IN OUR HISTORY
The Spanish People Are Hood winked and Led
to Believe That America Is a Vast
Wilderness. Inhabited BY Saw
ages Called Cowboys.
Spanish Ignorance.

CnlcBgO Lines Herald: Inc Ignorance
Of Spain passes understanding. The
proud Castillians who prate about their
national honor" have no adequate con
ception of America or the Americans.
In nation s. per cent of which Is illit.
crate it is not strange that popular mis-
apprehension should be entertained con
corning a foreign nation thousands Of
miles away; but it seems queer that the
press and the public leaders OF Spain
should be 80 woefuliy in the dark con
corning American matters.
No less a parsonage than Gen. Weyler
himself recently assured an interviews
that with $4,000 soldiers landed on Amer
lean soil he could in one weeks time
march from Boston to San Francisco.
Gen. Correa, the Spanish minister of war,
recently said The war will not be con-
fined to Cuba. What is to hinder us
from taking our army to the United
States some night and investing the capl.
tai at Washington City next day."
One of the leading journals at Madrid,
the Impartial, editoriaIy remarked Oh
April 2:
at is fact well known to all European
statesmen that only 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 Confedracv is but waiting the word
l.. L L.. 4 al
Lee, who has been consul general at Ha
vanH, and who was kicked out of Cuba
by Governor General Bsnco, will raise
the standard of revolt and the old South
ern Confederacy. This Lee is the same
Lee VINO was general in chief OF the civil
war in 1850 to 1855, and whose surrender
to General Lincoln in the last named
year broke the revolution. His acts at
Havana were for the purpose of plung-
ing his government into war with the
kingdom of Spain, at which time he and
his followers would rise against Senior
Mackindley."
FL Herado de Madrid furnishes this
bit of information concerning the United
States troops;
Gan the troops OF the Yankees are in
the lar western part OF the country, many
thousand miles from the Atlantic coast.
There are only few thousand men all
told, and they are i'll paid and i'll fed and
not willing to fight. To utilize this force
it will be necessary TO bring it to the east
ern seaboard. There is but one railway
by which it can be transported, and that
is an old, poorly constructed affair. At
one place this railroad passes over Mag
ara falls, a cataract 1000 feet high, near
Labrador. At last accounts the bridge at
this place was in a very dangerous con
dition. 1t need surprise no one to hear
that some agency had made it more So
FL TEMPO prints this special dispatch
from Havana:
"Word has Just been received here that
the Indians are rising against the Yam
KEGS in Illinois, Ohio and other places.
The farmers are petitioning the govern
meut to protect them from the blood
thirsty savages, who are burning houses
and killing on every side. Troops are
asked for at Colorado, and at st. Louis
,San Luis, in Missipa. News is brought
to us that Buffalo Bill, a notorious out
law and leader OF band OF hslibreeds,
has risen against the American govern
ment and is burning towns near his birth
place in New York"
FL Deario truthfully says: 1T will no
doubt surprise our readers to learn that
the Yankee President Magginiey is a nat
uralized Chinaman, having been born in
Canton"
Ell Pals draws this beautiful pen picture
of the United States;
1.-THE country is not fit to live in. The
climate is execrable. When it is not
sleeting or showing the heat is almost
unbearable. Avalanches are frequent at
all times, and these threaten the Drinci-
pal cities. AS for the people, besides the
lew whites engaged in business along the
eastern shores, the remainder of the
country is one vast plain, covered with
Indians called cowboys, and great herds
OF roaming cattle.
1t is mistake to say, as our school
histories do, that america was discov-
cred by Spain in 1902" Spain has not
discovered this country yet.
The coldipr's Paw