Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-11-04
YANKEE PUSH IN CUBA.
Country Editor Has Begun His
Civilizing Mission Work.
HIS NEWSPAPER HAS APPEARED.

Editor, Poet and HumOrist, All Are
Represented IN the Initial Copies
of The Times of Cuba-The Papers
S%alutatory N~otice-BaIIad of "Ted-
dy's T%errors."
American occupation of Cuba would
have failed Of being complete and typ
ical had not a Yankee newspaper been
issued from the conquered city of Santi-
ago before the smoke of battle was fair
ly cleared from the trenches, but such
an opportunity for the demonstration of
characteristic American push was not
neglected. Scarcely had General Shat
ter's soldiers begun to patrol Santiago
when the cries Of the Cuban newsboys
heralded the issue of the first newspaper
printed in English in the Gem Of the
Antilles. The earliest copies of this his
toric publication recently found their
way to the United States and to Chicago.
In the following salutatory Thomas r.
Dawley, the editor Of The Times of Gu
ba, makes his bow to the English read
ing contingent Of Cuba:
"In publishing the first American
daily in the island Of Cuba we beg our
friends and the public in general to ex.
cuse the many faults which we may
seemingly or Internationally commit.
1t must be remembered that we are new
Corners among a people whose character
istics and education differ from those of
the great American people whose flag
now floats over this city, not as that of
a noisy conqueror, but as the protector
Of people DESTROYS Of seeing peace and
prosperity once more reigning over their
island homes. We have already seen
enough Of your fertile lands, bathed in
the sunshine of an eternal summer, to
understand their productive capacity
when peace and personal guarantees are
once more established throughout the
island. Those lands, beautiful as they
are, show the unmistakable signs of dew
astation, and we fully comprehend
how they have been sprinkled with tears
and blood in the past, but it does not
devolve upon us to say who are the mes
to blame for all this.
"As our name, The Times, signifies,
it will be our duty to deal with the
present and not the past. We shall not
meddle with politics, for, in the first
place, we have always found politics
delving among such crooked paths as
only to puzzle and bewilder US, and, in
the second place, we are not deeply
enough versed in the situation here to
know whether there are any we'll defn-
ed politics here or not. We can only
state that it has been the policy of Pres
ident Mckinley to establish peace in
this beautiful island first of all, after
which the people should be allowed to
choose the form Of government which
they most desire for the protection Of
life, liberty and property.
Regarding liberty, we are told that
there is a diversity Of opinions regard.
ing the meaning of this much cherished
word, and, fearing that we may be ao-
crsed Of having political motives if we
ourselves attempt its definition, we shall
be content to use our W great country,
the United States, as furnishing a model
Of liberty as enjoyed by an industrious
and prosperous nation, where for more
than 30 years we have had neither rev.
olution nor wars, and so bent we were
upon the pursuit of peaceful commerce
that non Of u neighbors across the
9 a thought we were competent to
wage war against a foreign foe. But NJ
ooner did the occasion present itself
than onr youth flew to arms, and as a
result we are here today extending our
generous sympathy to those vanquished
foes who fought as only brave soldiers
can fight, without questioning the right
or wrong Of the country which it has
been their duty to defend.
"Our soldiers respect them as SOL
diers, and now that they have capitu-
lated with all honors Of warit gladdens
the hearts Of the impartial observers to
see the many demonstrations Of COM
radeship continually expressed by the
victor and the %vanquished as they meet
either in the city streets, in the cafes or
outside in the camps. May peace o o
be declared between the two nations
and industry and prosperity begin"
No American country newspaper is
truly typical of it's class unless it af-
fords the rural poet an outlet for his gem
ius. In the second number of this in
itlal effort Of Yankee journalism in
Cuba The Times has devoted half of its
front page to a Ia stanza dialect poem
on Theodore Roosevelt. A small portion
Of the metrical contribution is here
reproduced:
THE BALLAD OF "TEDDY's TER
RORS."
las related by Round Up Rube of Rattle
snake Gulch.l
BY STEPHEN +. WHITMAN.
There wus a lovely regiment whose men
wus strong and stout;
Fer some they had diplomas, and fer some
wus warrants out,
And Wood. he wus their colonel bold, and
Teddy wus his mate,
And they called 'em ''Teddy's Lambkins."
fer their %gentleress wus great.
Now, a good ole man named Shafter says
to Teddy and to Wood,
'There's a joint called Santiago, where
we amt well understood,
So take yer lamblike regiment, and If you
are polite
I think yer gentle little waysn set the
matter right"
So when Teddy's boys got movin and the
sun wus on the fry
And the atmosphere wus coaxin them to
lay right down and die
Some gents from Santiago who wus mad
cause they wus there
Lay down behind some bushes to put bull
let's through their hair.
Now. Teddy's happy Sunday school wus
mpvin on its way
A-seekin in its peaceful style some dagos