The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-06-07
Spafnss Idea Of Us.

The ignorance of Spain passes under
standing, says the Chicago Times
Herald. The proud Catilians who
pirate about their national honor
have no adequate conception of Aneri-
ca Dr. Americans. In a nation IS per
cen Of which is i~lliterate, 1t is not
strange that popular misapprehension
foreign nation thousands Of miles
away; but it seems queer that the
press and the public leaders of Spain
should be so woefully in the dark COZ.
corning American matters.
General Correa, the Spanish minis
ter of war, recently said: The war
will not be confined TO Cuba. What is
to hinder US from taking our army to
the United States some night and in
vesting the capitol at Washington
next day?"
One of the leading journals of Mad
rid, The impartial, editorially remark
ed on April End: 1T is a fact we'll
only by means of armed force station
ed in the late confederate states has
the Washington government been
able to preserve the semblance Of
peace. Even now the new generation
of the confederacy is but waiting for
the word of revolt. When war is de-
clared General Lee, who has been
tOIISu ScI4cI al al oHo Va
was kicked out of Cuba by General
Blanco, will raise the standard Of re-
volt and the old southern confederacy.
This Lee is the same Lee who was
general-in-chief Of the civil war in
1850 to 1855, and who surrendered to
General Lincoln in the last named year
broke the revolution. His acts at Ha-
vana were for the purpose of plunging
the government into war with the
kingdom Of Spain, at which time he
and his followers would. rise against
Senior Mackindley.
Ell Heraldo de Madrid furnishes this
valuable bit of information concerning
the United States troops: All the
troops of the yankees are in the far
western part of the country, many
thousands of miles from the Atlantic
coast. There are only a 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 eastern seabOard.
There is but one railway by which it
can be transported, and that is an old
and poorly constructed affair. At one
place this railroad passes over Niagara
Falls, a cataract 1000 feet high, near
Labrador. At last accounts the bridge
at this place was in a very dangerous
condition.. 1t need surprise no one to
near that some agency has made it
still more SO.
Ell Tempo prints this special dis
patch from Havana: WORD has just
been received here that the Indians are
rising against the yankees in Illinois,
Ohio and other places. The farmers
are petitioning the government to
protect them from the b~lood-thirsty
savages, who are burning houses and
killing on every side. Troops are ask
ed for at Colorado, in the state Of Den
yer, and at ST. Louis (San LOuis) in
Missipa. News is brought to us that
Buffalo Bill, a notorious outlaw and
leader Of a band of ~half-breeds, has
risen against the American govern
ment and is burning towns near his
birthplace in New York"
Ell Diario truthfully says: "It will no
doubt surprise u readers to earn
thai the yankee president, Magnify,
is a naturalized Chinaman, having
been born in Canton"
Ell Pals draws this beautiful pen pic
ture of the United States: 1.-THE coun-
try is not fit to live in. The climate
is execrable. When it is not sleeting
or showing the heat is almost unbear-
able. Avalanches are frequent at all
times and these threaten the principal
cities. AS for the people, besides the
few whites engaged in business along
the eastern shore, the remainder of the
country is one vast plain, covered
with Indians called cowboys, and great
herds of roaming cattle"
1t is a mistake to say, as our school
histories do, that america was dis
covered by Spain in 1892" Spain has
not discovered this country yet.