The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-05-18
SPAIN'S AWFUL IGNORANCE.
The Comments of Some OF Her Papers
are Simply Awful.

Inc ignorance Of Spain passes under
standing. The proud Castillians wha
pirate about their national honor" have
no adequate conception Of America or the
AMERICANS. In a nation IS per cent Of
which is illilcrate, It is not strange that
popular misappre hcnsion should be enter
tained concerning a foreign nation thou
sands OF miles away, but it seems queer
that the press and the pubic leaders OF
Spain should be so woefuliy IN the dark
concerning American matters.
No less a parsonage than General
Meyler himself recently assured an in
teryewer that with $4,000 soldiers land
ed on American shores he could In one
weeks time march from Boston to San
Francisco General Correa, the Span
ish Minister Of War. recently said: The
war will not be confined 20 Cuba. What
Is 10 hinder us from taking our army 20
the United States some night and invest
ing the capital az Washington next
day?'
one of the leading journals OF Madrid
the impartial, editorialy, remarked on
April 2d:
It is fact well known to all European
statesmen that only by means Of armed
force stationed I'm 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 to revolt When war is declared
General Lee. who has been Consul Gen.
eral a Havana, and who was kicked out
OF Cuba by Governor General Blanco,
will raise the standard of revolt and the
old Southern Confederacy. This Lee is
the same Lee who was general In chief
of the civil war I'm 1850 % lSjj and whose
surrender to General Lincoln I'm the last
named year broke the revolution. His
acts at Havana were for the purpose Of
plunging the government into war with
tho Kingdom of Spain. at which time he
and his followers would rise against Senior
Mackndley.
III 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 thousand miles from the Atlantic
coast. There are only few thousand
men all told. and they are III paid and Ill
fed. and not willing 10 fight To utilize
this force il will be necessary 10 bring
it to the eastern seabourd. There Is but
one railway by which il can be trans
ported. 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 I'm a very dangerous condition. IL
need surprise no one 10 hear that some
agency has made It still more so.
III TEMPO prints this special dispatch
from Havana: A..
Word has lust been received here that
the Indians are rising against the yam
KEGS in Illinois. Ohio and other places Inc
farmers are petitioning the government
to protect them from the bloodthlrsly
savages. who arc burning houses anu
killing on every side. Troops are asheu
Tor at colorado. In the state or Denver
and al ST. Louis (San Luis) IN Missipa.
News Is brought TO Us that Buualo blli
a notorious outlaw and leader OF a oanh
NJ half-breeds. has risen against the
American government and Is ourIhhs
towns near his birthplace in New orh
FL Diario truthfully says. IT VIII no
doubt sunrise our readers 10 learn thal
the YANKEES President. Magginly. IS a. ma
turalized Chinaman. having been Dorm
In Canton ,, -.
ture OF the United States
The country is not nj 70 I'VE IN AA
climate Is execrable. When II - not
sieeting or showing the heat is almost
unbearable. Avalanches are frequent a,
all times and these threaten the p.lhc'pal
cities. AS for the people, besides the
few whites engged in business along the
eastern shore, the remainder OF lhe coun
try Is one vast plain. covered with IN
dlans called cowboys. and great herds OF
roaming cattle.
II is a mistake 20 say, as our schooi
histories do. that America was discov-
bv Spain in fl92" Spain has not DIS
covered this country yet.