The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-18
THEY CALL US HOGS
INSOLENCE OF sPANIARDs IN SOUTH
AMERICAN COUNTRIES.
Hog Cigarettes and Cartoons and In
suIting Pictures of Queen Victoria
and President Mckinley.
PLOT TO BLOW UP OUR SHIPS
AND HOW 1T WAS FRUSTRATED BY
OUR MINISTER AND CONSUL.
A Pro-Spanish Sermon Which Was
by the "Star-SpangIed Banner"

| copyrighted, 1898, by Frank G. Carpenter,l
| SANTIAGO, Chile, Aug. 20.--I have just
| received letters and papers from Buenos
| Ayres showing the intense hatred the Span
| ish there feel for the United States. 1t is
| bad enough here, but there it is worse. The
Argentine Republic contains more Span
iards than any other country outside of
| Spain. 1t has more than 100000, and in
Buenos Ayres alone there are over $4,000.
| Buenos Ayres is the biggest Spanish-speak-
| ing city Of the world. A large part of it's
| population is made up Of Spaniards of the
lower classes, people who know nothing of
| the United States, and who just now are
| violently infiamed against us. The capital
| Of the Argentine is hence the hotbed of
the anti-American spirit of South America.
| The Spanish there gave more than mil
| lion dollars to their cause, and until now
they have supposed that the war would
| be all one way. The lower classes of the
| Spanish down here are like the lower class
| es in Spain. They believe that the Span
iards are the strongest and bravest people
| of the world, and until now had no idea
that the Yankees. as they call us, could
| conquer them. AS a specimen Of the way
they talked and felt at the beginning of
the war cite the following, which heard
| eO-Aoy' WHICH wal was uSCldE6Q a IdIue.T
| prominent Spaniard here said to an Amer
| lean:
''You Yankees are fools to make war
against us. Why, every one knows that one
Spaniard can whip twenty Yankees"
'You think so, do your" replied the Amer
ican ''Well, you are one Spaniard and
am one Yankee. 1 don't care for the other
nineteen, but am pretty sure I can lick
| you here and now if you want to try it,"
| The Spaniard had no more to say.
The legation here is not guarded and the
minister goes about freely. am told, how
ever, that an American had better keep
his eyes open as he goes through the streets
| at night A prominent Englishman of
Iquique warned me that / might get a stab
| in the back or blow with stone if
| were not careful. On the east coast, where
| the feeling is even more bitter than here
policemen are stationed at the consulates
| anu legations. This 1 know to be the case in
| Montevideo, although I am not sure as to
Rio Janeiro. understand it is not the case
in Buenos Ayres The different South Amer
lean governments. though they secretly
sympathize with Spain, doing what they
can to control the Spaniards among their
| people. They permit, however. all kinds of
meetings, professions, ct cetera, and If
!
bonfires and general rejoicing They allow
all sorts of vile sheets to be distributed
cartooning the Americans, and posters are
now put up in the leading South American
cities advertising a new cigarette by which
the Spanish when they smoke it think they
are burning up the Yankees.
THE HOG CIGARETTE.
This is called lei Chancho cigarette" or
| the hog cigarette. 1t comes from Buenos
| Ayrt S, where the Spanish call us hogs, and
| publish vile sheet in which we are char
acterized as the pigs of the universe Where
they have got this contemptuous term 1 do
| not know. Perhaps from the fact that they
| have heard that we make much money out
| of pork. At any rate LOS Yankees and
Los Chanehos'' are commonly used here
| by the lower Spanish in referring to us
| Posted throughout the city of Buenos Ayres
are Sheets colored cigarette cartoons as
big as table cloth, representing President
Mckinley as hog being marched off to
prison by two Spanish soldiers. The hog is
dressed in the stars and stripes, the red
white and blue of our national colors His
hands are tied behind him and tears drop
from his eyes as he is marched off crying:
| why do you take me to Jail? For steal
ing?"
Such is the poster which a friendly ma
ton allows to be put upon the bill boards
of its capital The cigarette boxes are equal
ly bad On one side is what is supposed
| to be picture of our Congress. One hog
| as speaker, in the national colors is
| haranguing other hogs who sit at the desks
below On the other side are pictures of
Spanish soldiers firing at the American
fleet and hogs flying through the air in
| pieces. Other cigarette pictures show naval
engagements in which the hogs are being
blown into atoms.
| There is a leading pictorial weekly of
| Buenos Ayres which is being circulated by
| the thousand all over South America You
see it in the Spanish stores here, hung up
| in the windows, and it is greedily bought
| and applauded by the people. 1t is so vile
| that it would not be tolerated as decent in
| America. Our Police Gazette and yellow
| journals are Sunday-school tracts beside it.
| In this paper there are weekly illustrations
| OF the war, the Americans always being
| pictured as hogs. Here President Mckinley
| is cartooned the king of the hogs In
| the last issue, which lies before me, the
| chief cartoon is an Illustration of the anger
| the Spanish feel at the friendly relations of
| America and England. 1t consists of a pic
| ture of Queen Victoria wearing a crown
| ley, as baby on her lap, while she acts
| the part of wet nurse to him. Below is a
| Spanish rhyme, which reads:
| Mckinley, you have found a good nurse.
| She will satisfy your hunger and thirst
Further over on the sheet is a picture
| of a Spanish general roasting lot of pigs
| on spit and on the other side are Spanish
soldiers cutting UP hogs. This is labeled
Public Slaughter House of Yankee Pigs
In addition there is another hog cartoon
describing the bursting of a gun on the
Massachusetts, was falsely reported
here. Pieces Of gun and pieces of pork are
flying through the air. This is but one issue
of the paper. If it were not so disgusting il
might be laughable. Other issues are even
worse Some are absolutely too vile to be
described. The Spanish, however, are anx-
ious to get them. and the circulation of the
sheet has jumped from nothing to over
fifty thousand copies since it began their
publication
Outside of the Spaniards proper this coun-
try is fun of Spanish sympathzers. The
Chileans as a nation are for Spain as
against the United States They have had
J no love FIR 11a ofroo tha Rnlffr0oro and