The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-15

AS for the lower classes they actually
believe that the principal industry of
America is the raising of hogs, and at
the word Americanos they conjure up
visions of swine herders and their
droves.
"One or two instances will give bet
ter idea of these popular misconcep-
lions. A comic paper has just been
started in Madrid. 1t is called The
Porker,' and is devoted to the ridicule
of Americans. The title does not seem
at all crude or exaggerated to the aver
age Spaniard, I'll warrant. The other
day the Spanish press printed a re-
port that the savages of Ohio and Illi-
nois had risen up and that all the regu-
lar troops would have to be called from
the seaboard to quell the outbreak.
From what l know Of the state of pub
lie information in Madrid. l dare say
this story didn't raise a smile of in
credulity in all the capital unless it was
in the case of some American born
resident. 1t seems to be the settled
policy of the Spanish officials and news
papers to increase, rather than to dis
pei this Ignorance. Therefore the Span
ish people are likely to experience
rude awakening before this war is over,
an awakening that may be fraught
with danger to these same officials.
THE SPANISH FIGHTING SPIRIT.
Eat the same time 1 believe that
those who expect Spain to yield the
present contest without a struggle are
badly mistaken. The Spaniard is really
a desperate fighter, when he is pushed
to it. What Spain has done toward
quelling the instruction in Cuba is not
to be taken as a fair test of what she
can do in an extremity. There may
have been sufficient reasons why the
Spanish generals did not wish to bring
the Cuban war to a speedy end, and
anyway in that contest the Spanish ma
ton has not been Straining every nerve,
as they will against the United States.
The Spaniards boast about shedding
the last drop of blood in defense of his
country's honor may be partly bun
combe. but it is not altogether without
foundation.
Some of the wars between the South
American countries, whose people are
of Spanish blood, give instances of this
desperate species of bravery. In the
war between Chile and Peru. after the
Gillian vessel had been sunk, and while
her crew were struggling in the water,
they still fought with their knives
against the Peruvians, who came to
rescue them and died rather than ac-
cept aid at the hands of their enemies"
DO you think that the present plan
of raising an army by calling out the
national militia will provide more eff
cient force than the north had at its
command at the beginning of the civil
WARP"
THE conditions are widely different,
but they are alike in this: at the begin
ming of the civil war it was necessary
to make an army and now it is neces-
sary to make an army. There was mi
litia to be called on then as now. Per-
haps it is a little more numerous and
a trifle more efficient and better
equipped now.
A WARTIME MAXIM.
1.-THE truth, of the matter is that we
have plenty of material for the ranks,
but it inevitably takes some time to get
it into shape for efficient work. Per-
haps the best lesson to be drawn from
the civil war is the necessity of taking
plenty of time for preparation; it will
shorten the contest in the end. A good
maxim for wartime and one that our