The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-24
BY WAY OF SPAIN.
News of America That Has Escaped
Our Own Papers.
New York Mail and EynrnsS

New York Mail and Express
While all reports from American news
gatherers concerning the progress of the
war have thus far been generally accepted
IN perfect good faith, the time has now ar
rived when the people gravely ask them
selves whether things are actually as Sc
rene as they SEEM Every now and then
somebody suggests that only part of the
truth Is told concerning the operations of
of the country is such that If 1t We're fully
understood everybody would trembe in
Terror The 5 American an newspapers have
public informed as to the progress of events,
but there is discrepancy between their
news and the reports published in the jour
nails of Madrid which is positively startling.
One of the leading newspapers of the Span
ish capital, Ell Heraldo. FOR instance printed
a few days ago this alarming information
concerning our military resources:
"All the troops of the Yankees are in the
far IA western part of the country, many
thousand 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 sea-
board. There is but one railway by which
1t can be transported and that is an old and
railroad passes over Niagara Falls, cat
aract 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 hear that some agency had made
1t still more so
Without pausing to comment upon the
dastardly policy which has withheld this i'm
portant news from the American people, we
hasten to present a still more appalling dis
the Impartial. another of Madrids ablest
journals, on April 2 as follows: :; ,
force stationed in the late Confederate
States has the washington government been
able 10 preserve the semblance of peace.
Even now the new generation of the Con-
federacy is but waiting for the word to re-
volt. When war is declared General Lee.
Nrhn hn- tNnnV cal oil nf
and who was kicked out of Cuba by Gov
ernor General Blanco, will raise the stand
ard of revolt and the old Southern Confed-
eracy. This Lee is the same Lee who was
general in chief of the civil war in 1850 to
1855, AID whose surrender TO General Lin
coin in the last-named year broke the fevo-
luton. His acts at Havana were for the pur-
pose OF plunging the government into a war
with the kingdom of Spain, at which time
ne and his followers would rise against
Senior Mackindley."
FrightfuI as this news is there is more
to come, and some of it is still more appall-
ing, third Madrid journal. FL TEMPO,
published only two weeks ago this terrifying
special dispatch from its sleuth-like corre-
spondent in Havana
Word has just been received here that
the Indians are rising against the Yankees
in Illinois, Ohio and other places. The farm
tect them from the bloodthirsty savages.
who are burning houses and killing on every
side. Troops are asked for at Colorado. in
Luis) 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 government, and is
burning towns near his birthplace in New
York
Nor is this all. Ell Pals, another newspaper
published in Madrid, recently assured It's
readers that Spain would certainly come out
of the war victorious because of the
wretched condition of America, which is
described In this way:
THE country is not fit to live in. The
climate is execrable. When it is not sleet-
incr or N no &c
able. Avalanches frequent at all times
and these threaten the principal cities. AS
for the people, besides the few whites en-
the remainder of the country is one vast
and great herds of roaming cattle"
Again, Ell Diario. of Madrid, gravely in
forms its readers that 'the Yankee Presi-
dent Magginly is a naturaized Chinaman.
who was born in Canton while the un-
speakable Weyler boasts that with $4,000
soldiers landed on American shores he
could in one weeks time march from Bos-
ton to San Francisco, and General Correa,
late minister of war wants to know what
is to hinder us from taking our army 10
the United States some night and investing
the Capitol at Washington the next day!
Either through bad faith or lack of enter
prise or by a combination of these, the
American newspapers have pcrSiStenty
withheld all of this disquieting information
from their readers. Through Spanish chan
nels, however il has at last reached the
people of this country, by whom 1t will be
read with undisguised interest. The final
impression which ii leaves upon the Amer
lean mind will be that large number OF the
68 per cent of the Spanish people who can
neither read nor write are doing editorial
work on the Madrid newspapers, and that
their war news. If not sufficiently definite to
warrant any serious alarm in This country,
is at least calculated to add considerably to
the 2ayety of nations.