The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1899-01-24
AN ARGENTINE ADVENTURE.
had Feeling for Yankees IL said a.
Exist In south American
Countries


America, and who was III every one OF
the South American republics except
Paraguay, says in them all, except
Brazil. he found that the temper of the
people and the tone of the press was
persistently and bitterly against us in
our war with Spain. These people,
sprung from the loins of Spaniards,
living under Spanish civilization, with
the language, the literature, the re-
ligion of Spain rs their inspiration, can
not rejoice with us in our victories, even
though they know in their hearts that
the North American republic has stood
as the guardian of their interests
against the encroachmento of Old World
powers.
Brazil has a different heritage. She
never was Spain's colony. Before her
independence was establiched she was
a gem in the crown of Portugal. Brazil
threw her sympathy with us, and alone
of them all, in the days just preceding
the war, stood ready to assist us by
permitting a draft upon her navy.
Said the tourist mentioned: Il was
in the Argentine Republic. With me
was friend also an American. One
day we ran up from Buenos Ayres to
town called Junin, in the interior. In
the dining-roon of the hotel lot of
natives and Spanards were seated.
They recognized in me an American,
but they mistook my friend, who was
large and fair, for an Englishman.
They hate us both, and the men at the
tables nearest us began abusing the
Yankees and the Gringoes. AS the con-
versation was not directed to us we
swallowed our food and our Indignation
as quickly as we could, and got out.
About II o'clock at night we were
in the barroom of the hotel in which we
were stopping. Pretty soon three of
the men who had been abusing us came
into the room, and, seeing us, started
in again. Finally my friend lost his
temper.
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 that any
Spaniard ever committed had been laid
forcibly at the feet of these three men.
One of the men started for my friend,
at the same time reaching tor his knife.
Pull your gun, he yelled to me, and
he leaped for the knife player. He
didn't need any gun for him. He was
big and strong, and he caught the Span
lard with a good heavy right-hand
swing right under his jaw. Up in the
air went the greaser, over chair and
on to a table, whence he rolled to the
floor his knife falling from his hand.
Nov, if you chaps move cried my
companion in Spanish to his victims
lieutenants, We'll blow your brains out
1--WE were ready to do it, too. We,
covered them while the man who had
been knocked down scrambled to his
feet. Then the three skunk out of the
place as meek as kittens. In the mean
time the landlord had telephoned the
commandante of the town that two
Americans were cleaning out his place.
The commandante hustled right up to
the hotel and carted us off to the bar
racks, where, in the privacy of his Of
flee, he told us that we had done just
right
"'If anyone bothers you, 60 ahead
and shoot him. he said; for he was
government official, and he did not
want to have the responsibility of en-
broiling his country with our govern
ment.
THE Spaniards have utilized our an
nexation of Porto Rico and our prac-
teal present protectorate of Cuba to
scare the South Americans into the sus-
picion that this country wants to grab
everything in the two continents. There
are great many Spaniards all through
South America. As rule, they are rich
and influential, and they have been
proselyting against us with great vigor.
The only natives of these countries who
have any real sympathy for us are those
with English, Scotch, or German blood
in them. They side with us as against
the Latin. This may be largely re-
ligious, but blood tells, and those Of
this extraction feel themselves more
nearly akin to us. s."-Nationa1 Tribune.
Americans In Madrid During War.
An amusing account is given in the
experiences OF IAN American in Mad
rid During the War" The writer. Mr..
Edmopd Reflv was caIled from parfe