The Portland daily press., 1898-05-18
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with centuries of chivalry and warlike
history at their backsl"
One issue of the Pals said: ''It is pitt
full to see what children, what weaklings
the Americans are. They are as unable
to care for themselves as infants in arms.
Yesterday there were no less than two
railway accidents in America, the total
the use of steam. and their telegraph
poles are continually blowing dow n -
The Pals, specializing on what Spain will
do with America when she shall have
conquered it, says:
The country is not fit.to live in. The
climate is execrable. When it is not
Sleeting or showing the heat is almost
unbearable. Avalanohes are frequent at
all times and these threaten the principal
cities. As for the people. beside the few
whites engaged In business along the east
enr coast, the remainder of the country is
one vast plain covered with Indians
called cowboys and great herds of roam
ing cattle"
We have no navy, according to the
Tempo, except "a few old vessels left
over from the Civil war of 1876, and
clumsily plated with rusty boiler iron."
From Osten d comes the news that Don
Carlos, the would be king of Spain, has
said that as soon as war is declared the
Cubans will join issue with the Span
ioiNo hSdluSU Ul6 COLuuOu CHIEFLY.
There's an. intelligent monarch for you'll
The Quixote, weekly paper at Bar
celona, has a cartoon which represents
Spain as a n1ail-clad warrior driving into
the sea, a herd of pigs labeled "Ameri-
canos. 4" Black and White an illustrated
paper at Madrid, has had some very bit.
ter cartoons. The Diario, which seems
to be a special offender against truth,
printed April 9 an account of a massacre
of Spaniards in some American town, the
name of which it forgets to mention.
The scene in the plaza was one of
frightful slaughter" it says. "The brave
Spaniards to the number of about 200,
with their beautiful wives and children,
made stand in the public square near
the cathedral fountain. On every side
the Yankee devils closed in. Cannons
were brought forward and soldiers aimed
their muskets. At the signal the guns
exploded and the valiant victims fell
writhing in death agony. The soldiers
then bayoneted the wounded till they
died. The square ran with Spain's best
blood'
In another newspaper we are given an
account of a rainstorm which drowned
s,70O persons. This, the paper said, was
owing to the "carelessness of the Ameri-
cans.''
The Spanish newspapers I saw were full
OF Insults to Minister Woodford, some OF
which. however, were really funny.
Their cartoous of him all represented the
fat and pudgy minister with burnsides
as a tall and awkward man whose chin
was adorned with a wisp of hair. They
evidently got him mixed with Uncle
Sam. One newspaper had paragraph
saying that as all McKinley's boys were
girls the dynasty would pass away as thi
Death. The same newspaper said:
The average height among the Amer
leans is feet 2, and they have never pro-
duoed an athlete. This is due to their liv-
ing almost entirely upon vegetables, as
they ship all their beef out of the
country, SO eager are they to make
money. There is no doubt that one full
grown Spaniard can defeat any three men
IN America" The journals resound with
hyperbole and high falutin. Nothing but
superlatiyes are used and Spaniards are
adjured by all their traditions of CHI ivalry
to take arms against 1.-THE insolent foe. .
The Heraido in one of the latest issues
saw says: t'News is brought to US that
buffalo Bill. a notorious outlaw and
leader of band of half breeds, has risen
against the American government and is
burning towns near his birthplace in
New York.