The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-06-12
From the Spanish
Point Of View

ss~HE recent comments OF bur
esteemed but u~ltra-conserva-
tive contemporary. El Pro-
gresso. on he war situation" says Ell
Damfoolo. do not present the case as
accurately and forcibly a. could be de-
sired. 1t is impossible for the Spanish
mind to form In adequate conception of
the grief. misery. despair and rage OF
the obscure, and degenerate
Yankee swine. Notwithstanding the
ceaseless efforts OF gangrened and exc
Grated American press censors to con-
ceal SPANS glorious Inc successive vic
tories on land and sea, the news has
leaked out. and the d~etestable. panic
stricken brutes are beside themselves
with modification, cowardice n fear.
Cervera's brilliant blockade of the ports
Of Boston, Oshkosh, New York. Ohio, Col
orado. a Francisco and Walkerville
have reduced the raven w~hite-livered,
sneaking. d~astardly, chicken-hearted
yellow ours Of skulking milksops to alb
solute n hopeless. starvation. want,
penury. idiocy. insanity n nudity.
Ca~nnibalism Is freely practiced, and the
very dogs in the streets are torn limb
from limb by Infatuated maniacs OF both
sexes md all ages as they fall shrieking
and jibbering into the eager, out
stretched. laughing jaws Of hell. Ac-
cording to Fl Butte Inter Clowntain, a
pretended newspaper still Permitted by
the ignorant and effeminate American
ministry to be published at Butte, in the
state of Susanna, the schools have
closed, the school boards resigned ard
the republic and all the republicans
gone to the infinite and everlasting
deuce.
THE same vicious, unrrincipled, un-
civilized sheet is comp slied to confess
that the American Protective associa-
ton, an organization formed for the ex-
press purpose of sav.rG the country, II
possible, from it's enem. IS. is in the last
stages Of dissolution n decay. This
association, 1t appears. absorbed all the
patriotism and religion left in the pig
sty; there wasn't very much, but what
there was, the A. p. A let none of 1t
escape. II was the org al intention
Of the A. p. "A. to declare Ireland free
and independent. AMI 70 force a war
with Great Britain, with the ultimate
intention, il the Unitsi States hould
succeed In such a war, Of s~nnexing Ire
land, just as congress hoped to annex
Cubs when 1t began Its criminal and dis
astrous war with Span. The Ameri-
can Protective association, exhibiting
the devoutest friendship for | Is holiness
Leo Kill, endeavor, ID to secure his CO.
operation in Its Infamous schemes Of
territ ,riai Acknowledgement. but the vat
lean spurned the outrageous proposal.
Smarting under this humiliation, the A.
p. A. abandoned Ireland and America
10 their fate. n when Mckinley called
for volunteers at the outbreak of the
present war. it did not organize and
tender the services of a single regiment.
A the proper time Spain itself will
liberate and annex Ireland. and. IL II
shall desire, the entire British Isles.
Having conquered the hendish and put
rid savages Of Swineland. 1t will be
Spain's next proud and glorious duty to
crush Great Britain and stamp the last
vestiges Of Anglo-Saxonism out Of ex-
stence. As to the annexation OF the
United States. although aware that
many excellent Spaniards are earnestly
In favor of II. we are not prepared to
say that the project commends itself
u~nreservedly to our approval. The re-
tention Of suitable coaling stations Is
highly desirable, even necessary. But
what do we ant Of that far-off. be-
nighted country. with its millions OF
savages7 By what process could they
be assimilatsd and converted into good
Spaniards? What would We do with
them II we had them? we did not un-
dertake this war as q war Of con-
Quest-we are fighting for q principle:
and although legally we may have .
right to annex the United States. such
annexation would be contrary to the
genius OF Spanish institutions and
violative OF all Spanish. tradition; nor
than that. Spain could not annex the
United states without convicting herself
before all the world OF duplicity and
had faith. The mission OF the war will
have been accomplished as o o as we
shall have driven the last American pigs
away from Cuba, penned them up for
ever In their own Dig pen, and COM
pleted the sad but glorious work Of
starving the commentaries and con-
~fiscating their property for our own in
teiligent and enlightened people.
while II will be necessary to occu-
py the United States until the wal in
IDENTITIES shall nave been fully paid,
JUST as as that is done let the pigs
have back their piggery; We don't want
II: we wouldn't take Il as a gift. The
Spanish people really cannot compre
bend how far the Americans are re-
moved from them. both geographically
n otherwise. The devil-possessed
swine may have heard OF monarchies.
but they have no idea OF what the Span
ish monarchy Is like. They call their