Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-04-17
Says Reason America Failed
to Declare War on Germany
Sooner Was Because of
CoWardiCe,
LAUDS GREAT HONOR
OF MEXICAN PEOPLE
Says People of West IndianI
Republic Have Almost Lost
Spirit of CaStiIIian An
CeStOrS.

tsV MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED wtRBl
FL Paso, Tex, April ia savage
attack upon the United States, its gov
ernment and people, appears in El
Heraldo del Norte, the leading Car
rama organ of Chihuahua City, Mex
leo, in its issue of April 10, copies of
which arrived here today. 1t alleges
that the only reason that the United
States did not declare war sooner on
Germany was because it is coward
ice. that Brazil entered because it is
dominated by Portuguese influence
and that Cuba joined only because it
had become a mere appendage of the
United States.
After speaking of the influences
that brought other countries into the
war, the Heraldo continues:
Points TO Cuba Scornfuliy.
''But what did surprise us Disagree
~, "a, ',:g our surprise eveA to in
dignation, is the action not of Cuba,
but of the government of our sister re-
public.
For some time we have been re-
peatedly tod that the feeling of ma
tionalty had died IN Cuba and that
the present-day Cuban was nothing
more than a loathsome caricature of
the gringo; and, when we were told
such things, not only did we refuse to
believe it, but also did we regard
those who told it to us as the impost-
ors of the worst kind, worthy only of
contempt But, unfortunately, 1t
seems that the facts lead one to be-
lieve truthful those whom we had
supposed to be calumniators.
1.-THE Latin spirit in Cuba, II not
a tg nj 10
Honor Is Disappearing.
"Of the nobility and aristocracy
which mother Spain sent to that
American land. together with those
brave captains of the Spanish con-
quest, there remains not even n YES
tige.
Honor is disappearing from Cuba.
"Rubian Dario was right when he
wrote these lines: Christopher Co
lumbus, poor admiral pray for the
world you have discovered
But instead of hating their op-
pressor. the tyrant who deprives them
on their free rights as free men to put
themselves into the category of slaves
they PROSTATE themselves before
him with servility and meanness in
conceivable in men through whose
veins flows Iberian blood.
From the world that Columbus dis
covered. dignity flees dismayed to
give room to AFFECTION.
ITO know how the Yankees have
treated the Cubans. 1t would suffice to
have been only a few days on the is
land; one would then witness some
thing repugnant and which, unfortu
nately, has also been seen in our un-
fortunate Mexico. The Cuban, in his
own country. is pariah whose rights
are not recognized except when the
Yankees see no objection thereto.
The Cubans are an imitation of what
the Mexicans were in the days of the
progressive Porfirio Diaz govern
ment. We were strangers in our own
homes.
Mexico Most Noble.
But in Mexico, in spite Of being al
most choked by the rough halter of
tyranny, we kept living in our breast
the protest against Yankeeland. and
never did we bend the knee before the
golden calf. In rags, nomads drag
ging with us our misery and misfor
tune, we wandered about in our own
country nursing in our souls hatred of
tyranny and awaiting the propitious
to throw off the yoke. When
that moment did arrive, we We're
of our blood and Of our
lives. Honor had not been lost in
Mexico.
eve still wish to believe, we dare
entertain the hope. that those who
have joined Yankeeland to declare
war against a country despotc and
criminal, if you will, as is Germany,
but country admirable he it only
for the great energy, nobility and
patriotism of its sons we dare to hope,
we say. that these are not Cubans. but
the government of a man, who in or
der to keep himself in the chief ex-
ecutive of that country, had trodden
down both the law and right
Sees Hopes i'm Revolt.
The men of Cuba, who have under
taken revolution, make us believe
that in the sister republic, sentiment.
of dignity is not yet dead and those
who have taken up the rifle in the de-
fense of liberty. will know how, the
time being right, to declare before the
world. the Latin origin of that coun-
try, through the veins of whose sons
flows the noble Tberian blood and that
it cannot and shall not ever be an
ally Of the Yankee pig"