The times., 1898-04-26
THEIR ESTIMATE OF US.
Senator Turner Gets Significant
Letters From Spain.

| ator Turner by two gentlemen. that is
| Spanish gentlemen. of Seville, Spain. and
propose to reflect the true Spanish esti-
mate of American intelligence, civiliza-
| ton and humanitarianism.
The letters were received by Senator
Turner yesterday morning and later in
| the day were translated into English.
| The following is the full text:
Seville. April s. 1898.
'.T'o the Senator Without Shame.
Mr.. Turner: The undersigned have
just read in the periodical press the
words which in your Senate you have
spoken against the Spaniards.
"At this moment we know that they
are empty words and only to incite the
| rabble to war, and in truth We wish TO
exterminate such towards and shameless
people as you who inhabit that infamous
country which very shortly we will cause
10 disappear from the map. But in the
meantime this will happen. You will be
compelled to correct the calumnies emit
ted by you against us. and we are ready
to prove one by one that we do not know
fear and that we know how 10 tear out
by the roots the tongue, with a rag that
we may not contaminate ourselves, that
doub.S our nobility and magnanimity. So
that now you know who are and whence
come the Spaniards.
ANTONIO ROMERO MEDINA,
Church Street.
JOSE ROMERO ROMERO.
mo. Morneas Street.
Second Letter.
Seville April s, 1898.
Senator Turner, Washington-Dear Sir:
| am satated with hearing the infa-
mics of savages and cannibais of the
rfrNey Ito I ri-h tell hat
| you deserve for your infamous conduct.
1t appears to me that from here | am
looking al you, with long beard and hair,
dirty and disheyelled with distorted yiS-
age and nostrils and mouth open, show
| ing the fangs like a dog rapid at seeing
that you are not able to devour the
world thinking only of the infamous dol-
! lars acquired by chasing and stealing
unhappy negroes in Africa and after
wards selling them in America like beasts;
| those infamous dollars which you are now
| delivering to the stupid adventurers OF
| Cuba, receiving in exchange bonds at
| 1000 per cent, payable on the declaration
| of the Independence of Cuba. This is the
! humanity which moves you so much for
| Cuba; this is the charity which makes
! you rage with the very drunkenness of
| anger and makes you oppose Spain: this
/ is the price which supports one pos
| SeSsed of the devil like You, cannibal
who wishes to wade through rivers of
! blood to obtain infamous and vile gold
| extracted from mountains of cOrpses,
! from fire and death. This is humanity.
| And the strangest thing is that there is
! not in that country some one who viii
/ tear out your tongue and heart and spit
| in your face in the presence of the Sem
ate! But those Spaniards will soon ar
/ rive who will make YOU dream with bull
| let's of the bonds of Cuba.
You call the Spaniards towards who
| defy you to overcome them with thou
sand to one. You call them infamous
who with bare breasts defend themselves
| on the field of honor against dynamite.
| explosive bullets, derailing cars. robber-
| les and incendiarisms effected by the de-
| tenders of your bonds. Infamous. Tn
| civilized, because they will not permit
| you TO steal that which is their own;
| false, because they defend themselves
against your infamies and robberies; bru-
| tai and inhuman because they will not
| allow Carib like you TO rob them.
The blowing up of the Maine was ar
ranged by the bandits who hold the Gu
| ban bonds. bribing the officers to blow it
! up, so as to have a preteXt for provoking
war. That is proved because none of
| them was killed; and that you know.
| you miserable and terrible man. false
and hypocritical. But soon those who
elected you senator to defend their rights
them by committing them To a bloody
war. infamous Machiavelian.
''It is not a heresy and a stupid sar-
| casm TO invoke humanity among the
| most cruel bandits and incendiaries of
| the human race. for which reason you
| are abhOrred and hated by your country
men of the South, who desired TO sepa-
| rate from you because they did not wish
| 10 be longer diShonOred. as they are more
| bOpnrabl and decent than Won
when war comes, 1 viii see YOU at
/ the front with your infamous bonds at
! a thousand per cent and the horrible and
| criminal strategy of the Maine, and If
| you are such towards as you are traitors
| and wretches, and do not wish to come
| to Cuba | will see you in your haunts
| in the north to tear your heart and tongue
and lash your face with them, so that
| YOU will not again UNANIMOUSLY calumniate
| a nation whose nobility and magnanimity
| is proverbial and recognized by all the
| world.
They speak of humanity and honor
| who commenced by selling their mother
country. who delivered TO them a territory
| that they preserve and defend it in her
name; those who sold the Marquis de
Lafayette, who provided arms and ships
| for their emancipation; they who de-
| ceived Washington and afterwards cast
| stones at him: they who invite all the
| criminals of the world that they may
| commit robberies and assassinations and
| go with them to the dens and caves of
| the viest bandits and criminals. But the
| fault is not yours, but Europe'S, which
toIerates you in such infamy and does
not obliterate and SOW with salt the
| country which EarbOrs so many crimi-
nails as the Romans did Carthage.
| You can speak of good government
and good administration. and setting an
| example of good education and customs.
| when you so frequently assassinate your
| Presidents, and kill each other like pigs
| in terrible civil wars. when dynamite ana
! other explosives are your favorite arms
which is in short the STATE of barbarism
| and brutality in which you live. And as
| you are so brutal and such savages, all
| your enterprises are terrible and criminal.
| You are never satisfied with any that do
| not produce unhappy and natural results.
| But your last hour is sounding. Europe
knows how TO impose the laws of civiliza-
ton on the savage Bedouins of North
| America and to make them feel the
weight of reason and Justice which you
| have so far forgotten, preoccupied with
| your criminal method OF looking at mat
ters which you, with so much impudence
| and hardihood have trampled upon
Miserable bandits bold savages. dc
you believe that because your impudent
and rash enterprises have resulted well
| up to this time that they will always do
| the same? You do not understand that
this will be impossible. Do you not see
that your eXtravagant conduct will not
serve as a rule for guidance, as YOU be-
lieve; that it is.an absurdity to confound
the occasional with the natural and
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