The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1899-01-21
AN ARGENTINE ADVENTURE,
had Feeling for Yankees II said 60
Exiss An south American
Countries

n tourist just returned from south
America, and who was In every one Of
the South American republics except
Paraguay, says In them oil. 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 as their inspiration, can
not rejoice with US In our victories. even
though they know IN their hearts that
the North American republic has stood
rs the guardian of their interests
against the encroachment of Old World
powers.
Brazil has a different heritage She
never was SPANS colony. Before her
independence was establiched she was
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 10 assist us by
permitting draft upon her navy.
Said the tourist mentioned; IT was
In the Argentine Republic. With me
was friend also an American. One
day we ran up from Buenos Ayres to a
town called Junin, in the interior. In
the dining-room of the hotel a lot of
natives and Spaniards 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 tho
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 IL 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 met TIN going 10 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 for 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 good heavy right-hand
swing right under his jaw. Up in the
dir went the greaser, over chair and
on 10 a table, whence he rolled 10 the
floor his knife falling from his hand.
"'Now. If you chaps move cried my
companion In Spanish to his victims
lieutenants, we'll blow your brains out
"We were ready To do ii, too. We
covered them while the man who had
been knocked down scrambled 10 his
feet. Then the three skunk out of the
place as meek as kittens. In the mean
time the landlord had telephoned the
communicate OF the town that two
Americans were cleaning out his place.
The commandante hustled right up TO
the hotel and carted us off 10 the bar
racks, where, in the privacy of his Of
flee, he told us that we had done just
right
"'If anyone bothers you. go 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 20 grab
everythingin 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 EDUCATIONAL Tribune.
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