The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-12-06
Spanish Republics sympathize
With the Mother Country.
lNSULTED A DOZEN TIMES
Thsy Have Apparently Forgotten Her
Cruel Trestmsnt-An American In
South America Has Q Tough
Experience to Relate.

20 The ,haorv .A.. cn.u,.h .o,.rs
-
rove US out h'tle better. IL any ina 10
the pure Castillians. He was N every
one Of the soutb American ranubucs
o~,on, p.rn,.. - - ,--'u =
Nepe eiaeuas u" IN 'he"h ""' w
cept Brazil, ne found that the sempef OF
the people and the tone of the p,ess
was persisten,lv ard hit,sr,v a,,s,st
:. g. n.ss--x
Az !" our war WIN spaih' biooo cCes
seem to be thicker than water. ana
these people, sprung from the loins Of
Spaniards. liyin, under a Snanisb ~
ilization. with the language litera.ure.
the religion of Spain as their insoi,a-
ton, cannot rejoice with us in our , G.
tories. even though they know IN their
hearts that the North American repub-
lie has stood as the guardian of their
interests against the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS OF
old world powers. They have not for
gotten the tyranny OF Spain when she
held sovereignty over them by force OF
arms. They have not forgotten the BIT
terness of their STRUGGLED to throw of
country. and vet the blood that a i'm
them makes them our enemies and
Spain's friends.
Brazil has a different berita0e She
has never warred with Spain because
she never was Spain's colony. BEFORE
her independence was established she
was "A gem I'm the crown M portu0aI
speakIne the Ianeuape Of that nation
and from its history the in
spirations which are f~undamenta 10
the formation Of national n-reiudices
So n was that RraziI with less cans
for enmitv toward the land Of the dons
than har sister renuhlics on the Sonth
American continent threw her svmna-
thies with ms and alone ~ them Ali in
the davs t,,st nrecedinp the war stood
ready 10 assist ms nv neruitting n draft
unon ber nayy
And so TOO this traveller from tho
United States found it in his wander
ings In prazil thera uas No dtsnosi-
tion on the mar, Of anv one except an
occasIonaI nerson 81 Snanisb h,rth 10
annoy or nnaItreat MIN T'ha naonie
wbera anv nrafarenca ,yas sbou,n iaan~
"a 20 o,r sida ~ tha oon,ro,arsy hu,
IN chill Pr, Ec,odor CoIon,hia ,he
Argentina penuhlic Irru.Y,ay and oil
the rect of thdsa nsoudn ren,,b,ics there
go ora thoy hated krartcans and
tbav x,era no,hing Ioath 20 shou, inst
hou tbey faIt
81 ,rasin Inntouo chui - ,ho raye,er
said ,ha cher dav an dascrihing his
trim ..tba day The rau,s xas racei,,od
,ha, ceryare's aae, had escanad fram
Sa ntiayo n MOS, exaggeratad re-
nor,s yyero being circuIated about tho
amap yyrongbt "a The American n,et
II vas nositiyeIy asserted that he In
diana Iowa Now Work and CIncInnati
had haen s,nk ara The resi- ~ tho deet
ca nt1red well the vyhols Mace went
viii Thara orr a iot or snaniaras in
Iouioua and re-, lea 4, ne cainhration
That night The streets were crowded
hand f,rnishod no,sic On tho nubIic
square and the cafes reaped a harvest.
More than a. oO0 was snent i'm had
cbamnagn 10 toast the Immortal Ger
yera 7 WAS knoyn IN no an American.
and 7 WAS nsultad n dozen times moi
only Inv Snanisrds hut nv ChIiIans. I
Lee, ro,,,o,,e ,ha naxt day Tbe cele-
hrators mns, have been q sore LOT when
,bay fo,,nd ort he truth
a short time after This 7 was in the
Areentine RenubIic with me was a
friend. also an American. One day we
ran mn from Ruenos Ayres 10 a town
called .Jnnin in the interior. about sew
on hours on the railroad. I remember
a. Was au,fullv cold nm there a,J as
wood Ia almost BILE and coal
sells AT sas a tom we Went TO he'd to
Leen warm we GOT nm ahout & o'cIock
for dinner and went into the main din
ing room where a lot Of natives and
Snaniards were seated. They recognized
an me an Anoerican hnt thew mistook
NV friend. who was large and fair. FOR
~ E~neIisbman Rut EngIishmen and
Americans are all the same TO these
neonle, They hate us both. and the
men at the tables nearest us began
Abusing the YANKEES and the Grincoes
as they call the English. We could un-
derstand what thew were saving. but
ae tho CONTEMPLATION was not directed al
ms we thoupbt n advisable not TO make
q row We swallowed our food and our
moderation as quickly as we could and
cot out.
I've were not ANNOYED any more that
day until about n O'Clock at night,
when we were i'm the barroom OF the
hotel in which we were stopping. Pref
Nv soon three of the men who had been
abusing US, started in again. They
called us pigs and dogs and towards
with much sesticulation and many evil
looks. Finally my friend lost his tenn
per, and with il went his discretion.
by God he said to me. I'm going
to lay those fellows out
He could talk Spanish as well as
they could. and he started in. Within
two minutes every crime hat n