Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1898-05-19
As the Snaniards see us.

Tho st. Joseph (Mo.l Herald culls
some interesting isems, from Spanish
newspapers of recent date. From IGl
Heraiao Of Madrid 1t quotes thus:
+. san the troops of tho Yankees are In
tho fer western country mGpy thousand
miles from tic Atlantic coast. There are
only few thousand men oil told, and
they are i'll paid and not W ling to fight.
TO utalize this force it will be necessary
to bring it to tho eastern scaboard.
There is but one railway by which it can
be transported and that is an old and
this road passes over Niagara Falls, q
cataract 1000 feet high, pear Labrador.
At last accounts tho bridge at this place
was in very dangerous condition. 1t
need surprise mono to hear that some
agency had mado it still moro so. 1t
would servo the hateful pigs Of Yankees
right If their miserable army WAS thus
drowned"
In another part of tho samo paper q
correspondent suggests that tho Spanish
fleet make quick run from Cadiz to tho
American shorc-which, he says, could
ho dono in four days-and lombard
"Ckicago" (Chicago) and other seaports.
Tho Diario, another Spanish nows-
paper, evidently similar to our. "yollow"
journals, issued an oxtra with tho follow
ing statement: "The Yankee Presidento
Magginly committed suicide for fear that
tho Spanish fleet would capture New
York" Tho next day it corrected this,
saying that he died from wounds inflicted
by q brave Spaniard. Tho Diario also
distinguished itself by publishing bio
graphical sketch of President Mckinley,
in which it says: "Magginly is natural
izod Chinaman, having boen born at Can
ton" This, mark you, is not an attempt
at humor on tho part of Tho Diario, but
In meant SeriOuSly.
Tho impartial, under date of April 20,
publishes tho following dispatch from
Havana:
"Word has just been received horc that
tho Indians arc rising against tho YAM
kecs i'm Illinois, Ohio and other places.
mcnt to protect thom from tho blood
thirsty savagos, who aro burning houses
and killing on ovcry sido. Troops arc
asked for at Colorado, in the State of
Dol.!cr and at st Louis (San Imis) in
Misspa."
In tho same issue Tho Impartial also
says:
"Wo havo repeatedly called attention
to tho fact that tho Americans arc ignor-
ant swine who cannot tal1o caro- of thcm-
solves uuder any circumstances. That
they arc imbccilcs is shown by tho fact
that at Philadelphia tho other day boiler
burst in cigar factory and killed 27 pco-
plo. And those arc tho people who daro
to dofy and insult tho Spaniards, with
centuries of chivalry and war like history
at their backs"
El Pals. another great journal of Madrid
recently said, cditorially:
"It is pitiful to sec what children,
what wcalSlings tho Americans are.
They are unable to caro- for themselves
as infants in arms. Yesterday thoro
wcrc no less than two railway accidcnts
in America, tho total victims bcing six
They arc ignorant Of tho nsc of steam
blowing down."
Speculation upon what Spain should
do with tho United States W hon shc has
conquered this nation, El Pals says:
"Tho country is not fit to 1.-Two in. Tho
climate is oxccrablc. When it is not
slcoting or showing tho heat is almost
nnbearablc. Avaanchos arc frequent at
all times and these threaten the principal
cities. AS for tho people, besides tho
few whites engaged in business along tho
eastern coast, the remainder of tho
country is ono vast plain covered with
Indians called cowboys and great herds
of roaming CATTLE"
In one of tho recent issues El IIcraldo
says;
Bill, notorious outlaw and leader of q
o''hu vi nam DlCc'S, Has itilScH tBdlllSG
tho American government and is burning
towns near his birthplace in New York" {"
These references arc all n serious sar-
casm, they arc not humorous, they arc
published as actual facts SO far as tho
Spanish editors know them. TO us they
arc extremely ludicrons, but they mani
fest the Ignorance Of tho people and the
base influence that gagged press, under
power of steaming and corrupt statesmen
and military IpaInlS f1ln
public of Spain. They arh much like
our 'ycllow" journals in tho publication
of figments of tho imagination that has
rlln mad