The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1917-04-27
CALLS UNITED STATES YANKEE
PIG" AND BEMoANs THE AC-
TON OF CUBAN REPUBLIC
BRAZIL INFLUENCED BY
Portuguese says same Sheet-Praises
Nexico's Actions In American
Controversy.

the United States, its government
and people. appears in FL Heraldo del
Norte. the leading Carranza organ OF
Chihuahua City. Mexico, in its issues
OF April II. copies OF which have
arrived here. IL alleges that the
only reason why the United States did
not declare war sooner on Germany
was because Of its cowardice. that
Brazil entered because it is dominated
by Portuguese influences and that
Cuba joined only because il had be-
come mere appeudage OF the United
States
After speaking OF influences that
brought other countries into the war.
the Heraldo continues:
For some time We have been re-
peatedly told the feeling of national
" had died in cuba ana that the pres
ent day Cuban was nothing more
than iothsome caricature o: the
gringo. also when We were told such
things not only did We refuse 70 be-
lievc IT, hut also did We regard those
who told Us as the impostcrs Of
the worst kind, worthy only OF con
tempt. But unfortunately il seems
that the facts lead one TO believe
truthful those whom We had suppOs-
ed TO be calumninstors.
The Latin spirit in Cuba, If not
dead, is about 10 die.
''Of the nobility and aristocracy.
v hich Mother Spain sent 10 thai Am
J rIicsn land together with these brave
/ a. plains OF the Spanish conquest
there remains not even vestige
: "Hcnor is disappearing from Cuba
'kUbisn Dario was right when he
wrote these lines:
christopher Columbus, poor ad-
miral. pray for the world you have
discovered.
But instead of hating their OPP
/ Ir,ssors. the tyrant who deprryes
Them OF their fights are free men 10
put them into the category of slaves,
! they PROSTATE themselves before him
with \ seyility and mcanness incOu-
ceiyable in men through whose veins
flows Iberian blood.
From the world that Column Bus
discovered. dignity fees d!Smayed TO
give room 10 AFFECTION.
To know how the YANKEES have
treated the Cubans, it would suffice
to have been only few days on the
. island; one would then witness some
thing repugnant and which, unfortu-
nately has also been seen in our I'M
| fortunate Mexico. The Cuban, in his
own country, is parah. whose
rights are not recognized except
when the Yankees see Ho objection
, thereto. The Cubans are IN immi-
tat!ou OF what the Mexican5 were in
the days OF the progressive Porfiri0
! Diaz government We were strangers
( in our own homes.
But in Mexico, in spite of being
almost chokcG by the rough halter OF
! tyranny, wo kept living In our breast
: the protest against Yankee land, and
never aid we bend the baae before
/ the gold call. In rags, nCmads,
dragging with MS our misery and mis-
( fortune, We wandered about in our
own country nursing IN our souls
hatred tyranny and awaiting the
propitious moment 10 throw off the
yoke When that mOm"u, did arrive
we were prodigal of our blood aud
OF our lives Honor had not been lost
in Mexico
We still wish TO believe. we dare
entertain the hope that those who
have Joined Yankee land 10 declare
war against a country dcspOtic and
criminal, ii YOU will, rs is Germany.
but a country admirable be il only
I for the great energy, nobility aud pa
triOtism Of its sons, We dare TO hope,
we say that these are not the Cubans.
but the government OF man who, in
/ order 20 keep himself in the chief
executive of that country, had trod-
den down both the law and right.
1.-The men OF Cuba who have under
taken revolution, make ms believe
that in the sister republic sentiment
OF dignity Is not dead. and those who
have taken up the rifle in defense Of
/ liberty, will know how, the time be-
ing right, 10 declare before the world.
the Latin origin OF that country,
through the veins Of whose sons
flows the noble Iterian blood and
that It cannot and shall not ever he
AN ais OF the Yankee pig"
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