The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-06-19
I'd SPAIN.

The Americans ara . coward!y race
Spanish newspaper.
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We are not q warslke nation: here Of cid
our fathers settled.
Seeking scope for their OPINIONS In the
loxhouxe and the hut:
Seeking elbcw-rooua and freedom. socer
men and qs,ie.-m.nced.
Almost TOO reiigsous. maybe. peaceful
minded people. but
Since they wished TO farm the meadows
wished TO go 10 church on SUNDAY .S.,.
And the red-skin would annoy them
with his lust for human hair.
From far Georgia to the southland, to tho
Misty shore Of Funny,
Flint locks kept the paow a-gosng. bull
lets helped 10 speed Tie prayer.
We are not q wariiks nation; though tho
blood We brought was rudy.
We preferred its CHEEKY rurneIS IN tho
veins kept tightly shut
We had thews for farm or rfshnet: We bad
brains 70 scheme and study,
Drawn and brain for peace and quiet
that MAS al We wAnted-buS
Ask the fields Of sleepy Concord, ask old
wrecked Ticonderoga
OF the cost OF uB5us, taxes and old bot
ties for new wine.
Something more than glass was broken on
And the tax was paid al Yorktown by
the Ssi0 old bun-hlste line.
We are not a warlike nation: patterned.
rather. for keen trading;
Some will say the style is English, that
from them we ger the cut:
East and West our ships went speeding.
decks awash from heavy lading,
BowSprits poked n every haroor. never
seeking QuarrelS-but,
When our rich L<.vant trade came. and
Tripoi claimed tribute from II,
Tribute paid by other navies trading
down the midland sea,
We. tho least and last of nations. blew
her gunboats to Mahomet.
Blew the faithful 10 their hours. made
the straits forever free.
We are not . warlike nataion: we had
states TO form and settle.
We had stuffs to manufacture, TN our
markets felt the glut-
We were busy getting Roadway. busy pail
From Inc human dust that reached Us
from the old-worid digGinx-hW,
We could slow up for 4 moment, just to
show our elder brother
That the bird we put our faith in was
not stuffed upon his perch,
And we told him. through the cannon IN
the sea fights reek and smother, 49,
We had searched the scriptures duiy'
but had found no right OF search"
we are not a waruke nation peace some
times keeps mems souls sleeping:
Some OF us still sought our harvests in
tho old barbaric rut
Worn by captive feet. till, one day, party
feeling. upwards ieaplng.
Broke into a flame and biaZeo on ali the
startled natsons-but,
When the smoke from red fields lifted.
when the armies were disDandeo:
Better armies, all the world Knows,
never cartridge bit or rammed,
Proud OF their own deeds, and proud. too
OF the men, who lighter-handed.
Fought them hong. and oit-nmes WHIP
ped them, slavery vas dead ana
We are not waIiike nation; we love lie
far more than dying.
We have little time for SwagSer ana the
military strut;
Let old Europe pay big armies. We have
better fish for frying.
We have nobler tools for manhood, tnan
the sword and rifle. but
Since we are a Christian nation, and the
blood our veins are Allied with
Anglo Saxon, Celtic, Teuton, Will not
keep forever cool
When we see weak women starving, neip~
less iil-s;arred children killed with
exc out Spanish rule;
Since We ind that Cuba's Cuban. and
the Spaniard but a tenant
Who defiles the house he lives in, then
our duty stands or. plain;
We are masters IN these waters, at the
mainmast flies our peflnant.
End this hell on earth or bark ye East
ward lies the path TO spain!
-Robaf-t Cameron Rogers.