Arizona republican., 1917-04-17
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 FL PASO, April 16-A savage at tack upon the United States, it's gov ernment and people, appears in Fl Heraldo del Norte, the leading Car ranza organ of Chihuahua City, Mex ice, in it's issue of April 15, copies Of which arrived here today It al leges that the only reason who the United States did not declare war sooner on Germany was because of it's cCWardice, that Brazil entered be- cause it is dominated by Portuguese influence and that CnDa joined only because it had become 9 mere ap- bondage of the United States
 After speaking of the influences that brought other countries into the war. the Heraldc continues:
 But what did surprise us disagree ably. carrying our surprise even into indignation, is the action, not Of Cuba. but of the government of our sister republic.
 For some lime we have been re De4tedly told that the feeling of ma tionality had died in Cuba and that the present day Cuban was nothing more than q loathsome caricature of the gringo: and, when we were told such things, not only did we re- fuse to believe it, but also did we
  the imposters Of the worst kind worthy only of contempt. But unfor- tunately. it seems that the facts lead one to believe truthful those whom we had supposed to he Caluminators
 "The Latin spirit in Cuba, if not dead. is about to die.
 of the nobility and aristOcracy which mother Spain sent to that American iand together with those brave captains of the Spanish con- quest, there romain not even vest age.
 Honor is disappearing from Cuba.
 'Rubian Dari6 was right when he wrote these lines:
 Christopher Columbus, poor ad- miral, pray for the world you have discovered.'
 But instead of hating their op- pressoT, the tyrant who deprives thent of their rights as free men 10 put them into the cat1gory of slaves they portrate themselves before him with 9 servility and meanness incon- ceivatle in men through whose veins flow Iberian blood.
 From tie world that Columbus discovered, dignity flees dismayed to give room to objection.
 "To know how the Yankees have treated the Cubans, t would suffice to have been only few days on the island: one would then witness some ? thing repugnant ana which. unfortun- ately, has also been seen in our un- fortunate Mexico The Cuoan. in his own country, is a pariah, whose rights are not recognized except when the Yankees see no objection thereto Tie Cubans are an imitation of what tho MeXicars were in the days of the | progressive Porfilio DiaZ govern ment. We were strangers in oul own homes.
 "Rut in Mexico, in spite of being almost cnobed by the rough halter of tyranny. we kept living in our breast the protest against Yankee land, and never did we bend the knee before the golden calf In rags, nomads dragging with HIS our misery and mis- fortune, we wandered about in ou' own country nursing in our soul: hatred Of tyranny and awaiting tho propitiols moment to throw o1f tho yoke When that moment did arrive we were prodigai of OUT blood and ol our lives. Honor had not been los in Mexico.
 We still wish to believe. we dare entertain the hope that those whS have joined Yankee land to declar; war against a country desrotic ant criminal. if you will as is Germany but country admira0l be it onl! .. for the great energy, nobility an' patriotism of it's sons, we dare t' hope, we say, that these are not th' Cubans. but the government Of man who, in order to keep himself Il ' the chief executive of that country had trodden down both the law an' , right The men of Cuba, who hav undertaken a revolution, make us be lieve that in the sister republic, senti l ment of dignity is not yet dead ant l those who have taken up the rifl ? in the defense of liberty, will knoV how. the time being right. to declar } before the world the Latin origin o } that country. through the veins O whose sons flows the noble loerial blood and that it cannot and sha } not ever be an ally of the Yanke