The times., 1898-09-19
DENoUNCEs THIS COUNTRY.
The Mayor of Vera Cruz Sym
pafhizes With Snafn

The Mayor of Vera Cruz Sym
pafhizes With Spain.
Many Mexicans are still avowing openly
their sympathy for Spain, according, 10
reports received N this city. On last
Saturday the national memorial day of
the Mexican nation, when the monu-
ments to the soldiers who fell in the Mex
lean war with the United States anC tie
graves of their heroes were decorated.
the mayor of Vera Cruz a Spaniari oy-
birth. took occasion to ienource the
United States by recalling the war | g
tween this country and Mexico, fifty
years ago 1t was but right he said.
that the sympathy of the Mexicans
should be with Spain in her unequal
struggle against the superior power of the
United States.
We are OF the same race" he said.
I'VE speak the same language The peo-
pie OF the United States are as much
foreign 10 us as If they were on he con-
tinent OF Europe Cur customs and man
ners are those of the people who speak
the Spanish language. Mexicans. too.
must not forget the injustice which the
republic on the north imposed upon this
country. We should remember 1t .odav
more than ever before. The Americans
are for the most part of the Anglo-Saxon
race and as such are opposed TO the
Latin race consequently We must stand
together as brothers
The United States in an UNEQUAL strrg-
gle against Mexico deprived us of a large
part Of our valuable territory. 1t is now
engaged in doing TIE same thing "a our
mother country-Spain. She has made a
noble defense of her rights. but no less
so than did the brave Mexicans whose
memory we commemorate today. The
United States sent against US l25.O0O well
armed and equipped men, yet we fought
them manfully and contested to the last
every inch of territory which they sought
to wrench from US.
Mexicans made a much better fight for
their rights than did the Spaniards. Cuba
should never have been given up without
a more desperate struggle. The United
States sent to Cuba but little more
than 1900 soldiers, and al least one-third
OF them were sick at all times in the hos
pitals. But what spectacle we have,
The whole island OF Cuba surrendered he
cause of the presence of this mere hand
ful of soldiers. We have 800 marines
landing alone on the shores of Cuba and
planting the flag of the United States
and yet there are 100000 tried and sea-
soned Spanish soldiers in Cuba who per
init that, and who have made little or no
resistance to the Intervention of the
United States
I'VE see Spanish general surrenderins
his army. his arms, and his territory with
only feeble resistance. We see a can
tain general in tears because of the loss
OF Spain's most valuable colony. and we
see the greatest of Spanish admirals
taken prisoner while endeavoring TO es-
cape in his underclothes, and all of them
signing agreements, save one brave man
to be paraded before the American pub
lie and taken to Annapolis
Had the Mexicans in IS4S had no force
to contend against greater than has
Spain in this Spanish-American war.
Mexico would still be sovereign over
large territory which is now in the Amer
lean Union, and the Rio Grande world
not form the boundary between the two
countries. Yet we must ever regard fire
friendship of Spain as Something - be
priced. and look with caution upon things
emanating from American sources"