The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-08
BY STEPHEN CRANE.


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This Is the dominant quality. This As
the principal color of San Antonio. Later
one begins to see that these edifces of
stone and brick and iron are reared on
ashes upon the ambitions of race. It
expresses again the victory Of the north.
The serene Anglo-SaXon erects business
blocks upon the dreams of the transient
monks; he strings telegraph wires across
the face of their sky of hope; and over
the energy, the efforts, the accomplish
1f F,ip fathers nf the carly
church passes the wheel, the hoof, the
heel
Here, and there, however, one finds in
the main part of the town, little old build
ings, yellow with age solemn ana severe
IN outilii' 'iiat ,,,.t', , nm of
the modern fife. In the Mexican quarter
there remains. too. much of the old char
acter bjt despite the tenderness which
san Antonio feels for these monuments.
the unDrotected mass of them must get
trannled into shameless dust which lies al
,vavs behind the march of this terrible
century The feet of the years win go
,hroueb many old roofs.
1,ro,Ia,, cars are tnorciless animals. They
s,orpe Themselves with relics. They make
,.,,jtv coherent history look FJ1e an ONE
let If q trolley car had trolleved around
Tsricbo tho civ wouId not have fallen. IL
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S,-rnturias opo Tho white and gold hammer
80 ct, oa,,9s nv, o,,t If the sea and tho
T+,,1iare mere dots Of blaok on the vast
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49, ~ ~ lono battre Of soldier ana
,rlsst eidc nv side against these stub
-, bo,haric bordes who wished to re-
,af7 t,rb their 0ods and their lands. Sword
ana crozier made frenzied circles in the
o,r Tba soldiers varied their fights with
the Indians by fighting the French, and
both the Indians and the trench occa-
S 49, arsod p', nsasuoss and skin
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Indians.
During interval of peace and interval of
war toiled The Dious monks. erecting mis-
sions digging bitches. making farms. and
cudgeling their Indians in and out of the
church Sometimes when the venerable
fathers ran short Of Indians to convert. the
soldiers went on expeditions and returned
dragging in a few score The settlement
prospered. Upon the gently rolling plains,
the mission churches with their yellow
stone towers outlined upon the sky called
with their bells at evening a multitude of
friars and meek Indians ana cleaning SOL
diers to service in the shadows before the
flaming candles, the solemn shrine, the
ssow-pacing, chanting priests. And wicked
and hopeless Indians, hearing these bells
scudded OF into the blue twilight OF the
prairie.
The runs or these missions are now
besieged In the valley south of the city
by lndomltable thickets OF mesquite. They
rear their battered heads, their soundless
towers, over dead forms, the graves of
monks; and of the Spanish soldiers not
one so much as tiOuriSheS dagger,
Ravages of Time and the Relic
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lime mas torn at these pale yellow
structures ana overturned walls and tow
efs mere ana there, deIaced this and oblit-
Grated thaI' hehc hunters with their
singular rapacity nave dragged down lit
poftaht stones from arches They have