Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-08-11
DOOley OH the Cubians.
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station an dacently booked be tn
Dask Sergeant before the fall OF
night. Tn impydince iv Thin"
What have they been doin'? p
Mr.. Iennessy asked.
"Failin' To understand our civ
ilization," said Mr.. Dooley. "Ye
see it was this way. This is tn way
it was. Gin'ral Garshy, with wan
numbered thousan' men, g been
fightin' bravely FIR two years f'r to
liberyate Cuba. Fr two years he's
been marchin' his sivinty-live
thousan' men up an down tn is-
land desthrOyin' tn naughty Span
yard be tn mil!yons. When war
was declared he offered his own
sarvice an tn sarvices iv his arr
my iv fifty thousan' men to tn
United States, an while waitin' FIR
ships to arrive he marched at tn
head iv his tin thousan' men down
to Sandago de Cuba an captured u
cigar facIhry, which they soon ray
jooced to smokin' ruins. They was
holdin' this position-Gin'ral Gar
shy and his gallant wan thousan'
men-whin Gin'ral Shafter arrived.
Gin'ral Garshy immeiiily offered
tn sarvices iv himself an his two
hundred men FIR tn capture iv
Sandago, an when Gin'ral Shafter
arrived there was Gin'ral Garshy
with his gallant band iv fifty Gu
bians re-ready to eat at minit's
notice.
"Gin'ral Shafter is a big, coarse,
two fisted man firm Michigan, an
whin he see Gin'ral Garshy an his
twenty-five gallant followers,
'Fr-ront,' says he. This way he
says, step lively he says, 'an'
move some iv these things he says.
Sir says Gin'ral Garshy, dye
take me FIR dhrayT he says. I'm
a soier,' he says, not a baggage
car he says. I'm Cuban pathrite
an I'd lay down me life an the
lives iv iv'ry wan iv tn eighteen
brave men iv me devoted army
he says, but I'll be dam'd if / car
ry a thrunk,' he says. I'll fight
whiniver it's cool he says, AN
they amt wan iv these twelve men
here that wudden't follow me to
he'll if they was awake at tn time
he says, but he says, if twas
wurruk we were luokiu' Gr We cud
have found it long aco, he says.
'Thov'se a lot iv it in this country
-It' robody's usin',' he says. What
W, want be say. is freedom h.
say n if ye think We have ..-.
.1 h. woods dodgin' tn sr,tsr
cog-v- ,.nndint FIR two year, =.
says, - tn sake iv r-rushin ye',r
laundhry home he says, otis no
wondher,' he says. that tn roads
from Marinette 10 Kalamazoo is.
paved with gOold bricks bought be
tn people iv ye'er native State he
says.
80 Shafter had to carry his
own thrunk, an well it was FIR him
that it wasn't Gin'ral Niles, tn
weather beiu' hot. An Shafter was
mad clear through, an whin he
took hold iv Sandago an was send
in out invitations he scratched
Garshy. Garshy took his gallant
band iy six back 10 tn woods an
there the three iv thin ar're now,
ARMED with forty r-rounds iv
canned lobster an r-ready to ray
sist to tn death. Him an tn other
man has written to Gin'ral Shafter
to tell him what they think iv him,
an it don't take long"
Well" said Mr.. Hennessy, II
thing Shafter done wrong. lie
asked Garshy in f'r to see
tn show. secin' that he's been hang
in ar-round FIR long time, doin'
the best he cud."
1T isn't that" explained Mr..
Dooley. "Th' trouble is tn Cubians
don't understand our civilization.
Over here freedom means hard wur-
ruk. What is tn ambition iy all
iv us, Hinnissy2 'Tis ayether to
hold our jobs or get wan. We want
wurruk. We must have it. Dye
tn sign tn mob carried
in tn procession las year? Give
us wurruk or We perish it said.
They had their heads bate in be
policemen because no philanthropy
ist'd come along an make thin
shovel coal. Now, in Cuba, whin
the mob turns out they carry a
banner with the wurruds: Give us
to do or we perish, Whin
a Cuban comes home at night with
a happy smile on his face he don't
say to his wife an childer, Thank
Gawd, I've got wurruk at last He
says, Thank Gawd, I've been fred
An tn childer go out and they
say 'Pah-p pah has lost his job an
Mrs. Cuban buys herself new
bonnet, an whore wanst they was
sorrow an despair all is happiness
an cottage organ.
''Ye can't make people here un-
dherstand that, an We can't make
a Cuban understand that freedom |
means tn same thing as a pinitin-
chry sintince. Whin we thry TO
get him to wurruk he'll say why |
should II / haven't committed any
crime That's goin to be the trou-
bile. The first thing we know well
have another war in Cuba, whin
we begin distributin' good jobs,
twelve hours day, wan sivinty-
five. Tn Cubians amt civilized in |
our way. l sometimes think I've
got touch of Cuban blood in me |
own veins"
HARPER Whisky is liquid I
bottled poetry, ripe,
mellow. refreshing and doiiC- |
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