The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-04-25
TO SPAIN.

''The Americans are a cowardly race
Spanish newspaper.
We are not a wariike nation; here of old
our fathers settled.
Seeking scope for their opinions in the
ioghouse and the hut,
Seeking elbow room and freedom, sober
men and Quiet-mettled.
Almost too religious, maybe, peaceful
minded people. but
Since they wished to farm the meadows,
wished TO go TO church on Sunday.
And the redskin would annoy them with
his bust for human hair:
From far Georgia to the south ard. 10 the
misty shore of Fundy.
Flintiocks kept the pillow a-going, bullets
helped to speed the prayer.
We are not warlike nation: though the
=. blood We brought was ruddy.
We preferred its CHEEKY runneIS in the
We had thews for farm or ishnet: we had
brains TO scheme and study.
Drawn and brain for peace and quiet
that was all We wanted-but
ASK the fields of sleepy Concord. ask old
wrecked TiConderoga
OF the cost of unjust taxes aud old bot
ties for new wine
Something more than glass was broken on
the heights of Saratoga,
And the tax was paid at Yorktown by
the stiff old buff-biue line
III
We aSe not warIike nation; patterned.
rather. for keen trading:
Some will say the style Is English, that
from them we get the cut,
East and and West .s our s ships went ,. speeding
Bowsprits poked in every harbor, never
seeking quarrels-bat
When our rich Levant trade came. and
Tripoli claimed tribute from IT.
Tribute pad by other navies trading
down the midland sea;
We, the least and last Of nations, blew
her gunboats to Mahomet,
Blew the faithful to their hours. made
tho straits forever free.
We are not warlike nation; We had
states to form and settle.
We had stuffs TO manufacture. till our
markets felt the glut--
We We're busy getting Roadway, busy pan
ming out the metal
From the human dust that reached us
from the Old World diggings-but
We could slow up for 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,
We had searched the Scripture duiy, but
had found no right 10 search
V
We are not warlise nation; peace some
times keeps mems souls sleeping;
Some of as stsil sought our haryestg IN
the Old barbaric nat
Worn by captive feet, Till. one day. party
feeling upward leaping.
Broke into a aame ard hlaZed or al Tire
startled na,ions-bat
When the smoke from red fields lifted
when the armies were disbandsd
Better armies. all the world Knows
never cartridge bit or ramfnsd.
Proud OF Their own deeds. and proud. too.
Of the men who lighter handed.
Fought them long and efFtirneS whipped
Them. slavery was dead and damned
VI
We are not a warlike nation, We love life
far more than diving.
Ne have littis tine Tor SWJg gFT ana the
military strut;
Is. old Europe pay big armies. we have
better FISH for frying.
Ne have n0hler tools for manhood, than
The sword and r.fte-but
Since we are Christian alton. ana the
bloos eur veins are nlied VIII
Aagio-SAxon. Celtic. TeGton, win not
keep forever coo.
" hvn we see weak women starving heip-
lsSs al-stagTed children killed with
Flthy water air enaposscned, tass 10 ese
out Spanish r3les
Since We naa that Cuha's Cuban. eua the
Spaniard bat tenant
WAo dafllsS ;ffe house re lives IN then
oar du,y stands cut piafn:
Ne are masters "a these waters at the
rsasnuaasf nsSs oar FeaMrans
End tbs he'll or earth aT bark ve: East
~srss lies ths path % Sasin'
Robert CaTaron In Buffalo Express.