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El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-01-31
What the Spaniards
Thinks Of us To-Day.

lof the world. In order that this
distance may not be shortened, he
never rests. Every man Of this
country lives his own life over
several times. Thus, the same
man, at his different stages, is
poor and rich, slave and master, in
misery and al-powerful, and he
is something greater still he is al
ways a man.
The writer then proceeds to pay
a high tribute to the optimistic
spirit of America, which he at
tributes in the main to our coedu
cational system, shrewdly remark
ing that one result is that the
American woman is a woman who
will always be worth more from
being virtuous than from being
innocent. As for the American
man: "His life does not anticipate
age. The more he prolongs his
childhood, the more he prolongs
his youth, so much the more does
he extend his life during mature
age" Summing the hole matter
up, he says he is now able to an
swer the query set by his master
in Tarragona, which he does in
this way:
These are the men who have
made the North American Republic
great. If now we associate with
the United States Cuba-the lost
by Spain, and which the United
States did not seek to retain pos
session of-how much shall wejnot
be surprized to behold her convert
ed into an ideal country, where no
one is any longer sick with yellow
fever, where the most scrupulOus
material and moral hygiene were.
applied for the good of all. Span
iards can now visit it without fear
and their mothers can remain in
tranquility on the other side Of
the Atlantic. The miracle was
wrought by the United States.
If now we pass from Cuba to
Panama-where the same yellow
fever made the isthmus uninhabit-
able-he shall be equally astoni-
shed by the sight Of another beau
tiful land, whose sanitary condi-
tion is as good as that of any re-
lgion of the United States.
Something similar might be OBJ.
1seryed in Santo Domingo, as also
in the Mexican city of Vera Cruz
during the recent occupation: the
Yankees carry health about with
them.
4 Such is the lesson could now
Erecite to my master of Tarragona,
Iif he should ask me what know
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-01-31

A thousand warnings have come
to us during the war that the willy
German propagandist has been
sowing his seed in Spain to con-
vert the proud Castilian to the
blessings of Tentonic Kultar and
make them hate the Allied peo-
pies. The main plank in the Ger
man propaganda was that Viii
liam III, was the greatest man in
the world, and of course that
particular plank has been reduced
to slivers. The whole war, in fact,
has been a liberal education for all
the neutral onlookers, and the
German propaganda has been a
waste of money. The Spaniard
has kept his eyes open and has not
been deceived. From such d stand
point the following article ought
to be of more than passing inter-
lest; it is written by Miguel de
Zarraga, is entitled '"The United
States as Seen by Spaniard, !"
and is published in lnter-Anserica
I New York;. Setting out with
the information that the first time
he ever heard the name Of the
United States was in the heart of
Catalina, in school in Tarrago-
na, a district whose inhabitants
are known as Hthe Yankees of
Spain," workers and democrats,
he proceeds:
Ia son Of Castillo the august
heard for the first time the name
of the United States in school in
Tarragona. l was young boy !;
| had barely completed my nine
years; and | was getting ready to
enter the institute. : Ny teacher
asked ME one morning, during the
lesson in geography:
"What do you know about the
United States?"
"The... the United States.
the United States"
And ], not knowing how to ex-
press to him what l knew in a
better way, added, ashamed that I
ibid not know more:
''The United States is..- the
greatest country in the world,
where everything is invented, and
where the most extraordinary
things happen. ....."
/ The master burst into laughter ;
lingenuously, and with a brusk
Transition, he changed his tone to
Isay to me, by way of reproof:
], "The United States is not that.
Study the lesson better, as you
will have to repeat it to me to-
morrow; and never forget that
the greatest country, for you,
Ought always to be your own.ni
l did not understand him well
lat that time, and l kept thinking
that in Pontevedra, few months
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-01-31

before, and for a period of several
days, my childish intelligence had
been set wondering twice: when /
heard a phonograph in the house
tof the Governor, and when | wit
messed the installation of the
| electric system. These things,
which seemed to be witches tricks,
! together with telephone and tele-
graph, were from the United
States. The land of Magic, that
twas the United States.
Then came the row with Cuba
and the infiamed feeling against
| the States. "The only people who
did not agree with either the ru-
Hers or the newspapers were the
poor mothers. Cuba to them was
Ean enormous pit into which their
sons, as the victims of yellow
fever, were dropt." When, in the
draft at the headquarters, the
I"black bali" came up for soldier,
that black ball meant Cuba. How
many mothers curst that name
"During the war we were served
with the most fantastic statistics
showing how miserabiy weak
America was. Then the collapse" !"
We read on:
The truth is that, for one reason
or another, Spain became an
enemy of the United States. The
war separated the two peoples.
This occurred twenty years ago !:
now they are friends, and another
war-the one that envelOps the
world-may unite them even more.
Why not? France and England
were mortal enemies of each other.
So were England and the United
States.>> So also, one of another,
were all the countries that to-day
are called Allies, and together are
pouring out their blood in the
struggle against Germany.
l reached the United States
already a good many year ago
bringing with me all the prejudi-
ces which my countrymen harbor
traditionally. | thought | should
find myself in an environment an
ltipat athetic, hostile, or strange to
my customs and tastes. Never
!tAeless, / was inclined once more
! to be an optimist. Accustomed to
living in different foreign coun-
tries, both in America and Europe,
had nothing to dread at being in
another of them.
For the United States, the pre-
isent does not exist. 1t might al
most be said that the present for
this immense people, which moves
SO fast, is the future for the rest
of the peoples.
The North American, always
moving, leads, by at least half a
century, the vanguard Of the races
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-01-31

teded for dispatch from Camp Las
Gasas, after that date should be
deposited in the San Juan Post
Office or at one of its Stations
located at Santurce, Stop 1879,
or at Puerta de TERRA, Stop 6.
q. w. Keith, Postmaster,
PerEdlrdrd Jiffkins,
Assistant Postmaster.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-01-11
A LESSON IN LAW ENFORCEMENT

In Chicago they have found a cogent reason for contin-
uing capital punishments and enforcing them, in the murder
record of that city. During the past two years $50 murders
have been committed there, which is still less than one a
day, however. But in London in one of these years there
were only thirteen murders, and London is three times as
populOus as Chicago.
But in Chicago, although Illinois has capital punishment,
there were only two executions of the criminals, while in
London all but five of the criminals were executed.
We are told that there is a direct relation between crime
and punishment and that if in Chicago there had been about
four hundred hangings during those two years, instead of
only two, there would have been a deterring influence at
work among the men handy with guns.
This is an old, old argument. and we are still wondering
how much there is to it. We wonder. and we may well
wonder, whether there are not other causes underlying the
situation in Chicago than the lack of executions. And we
wonder also if the cure is not in something else than a hang
mans rope, although that is a powerful aid. 1t is possible
al least it is possible thai there are influences that are bet
ter as we'll as stronger than terrorism. Perhaps numbering
in Chicago, as we'll as in Nevada. is the natural consequence
of a general slackness in enforcing laws, the mlsdemeanor
laws, the breaking of which lead up to the breaking of the
greater ones.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-01-11
TYRANNY-WHICH BRAND?

Shall lie instrument of tyranny be a club padded with
the technique of royalty or a bludgeon studded with the
cruelties OF the "prcletariai? This is a practical question IN
Cermeny. There is the case of the Vorwaerts, for instance.
Vorwaerts throughout the war and before was one of the prln-
cipal organs of lie German socialists. AS such it had Often
to complain of the heavy hand of censorship laid upon IL by
the Hohenzollern government. All the world has known that
ts German press was not a free institution, that 1T only par
rotei Inc thoughts of its master, and that when 1t tried to
escape from this rigid discipline laid down for it its editors
wer" placed in Jail or quietly modified" And 1t was all
done seemingly and with Iuiet-the "claws of steel In the
siikcn paw
But there has been an amazing change. of scene in Berlin.
The same Vorwacrts that was too radical for autOcracy is
now too conservative for the proletariat. Hence, we find the
radicals. who have been proclaiming their love for free speech
add the freedom of the press, visiting the office of Vorwaerts,
taking with them eighteen machine guns with which to per-
suade the regular editors to resign, and issuing a special edi-
tion on red paper under the caption Red Vorwaerts. The
Berlin chief of police, who had been sent by the Ebert gov
seize the plant. =
Now. who shall decide 'twiXt tweedledum and tweediedee!
The imperialistc government, displeased with the policy
of Vorwaerts. would have suppressed it none the less Ell
fectiyely. but it would never have been guilty of so impolite
an action as invading the editorial sanctum with eighteen ma
chine guns. Consistency is still a jewel, and 1t remains True
that orthodoxy is my doxy and heterodoxy is somebody else
1oxv. The Bolsheviki of Russia and Germany look upon Tree
speech as the palladium of liberty when 1T is their ups tha'
are sealed. but once given power all opinions antagonlstc TO
their own are prescribed more ruthlessly than was done by
the agents of absolutism.
And between the two brands of terrorism, the red or the
royal. the world, if it had to choose, would endure the latter
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-01-11
DEPORTING THE UNDESIRABLES

They are at last talking of applying common sense to
the I. w. w. problems, or to some of them. Those VINO are
aliens among them, and many of them are such, will be de-
ported. taken back to the countries from which they came 10
us. This is said to be clearly possible under the statutes we
already have, regulating immigration, under which the men
tally diseased can be sent back. We call that common sense,
and it will be an inspiring sight to see a ship load of these
public nuisasces taken back and dumped, say in Germany or
Russia, where they ought to find things more to their liking.
Let us trust that this will not be a spasmodic something
but a systematic and permanent something to be done. Let
us keep this country pure, to some extent at least Let IL not
be made the asylum for all kinds of lunatics gone crazy I'M
der other systems of government. We are more than q
spawning place for the insane and the detectives OF the worio.
What our forefathers meant by IAN asylum for the oppressed
is not an asylum for the mentally and morally deformed.
It has been both the boast and the shame of certain class
es i'm Europe that they have used the United States as the
dumping ground for their undesrables. In the past the
steamship companies have been the accOmplices of the gov
ernments in Europe in getting rid of such elements. But now
we know that such elements are not only undesirable, but
that we cannot assimilate them into our theories of govern
ment or of living. Let us be done with the sentimental sloD-
boring that we have to receive these men and women. we
owe to our own people better associates and associations for
them.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-01-11

We imagine that there is something different, II 10 more
significant, i'm a European demonstration than in one at nome.
But there isn't. 1t simply means a few thousands more o
less i'm the streets cheering a president and a king, but II tey
should ride through the streets of any important american
city there would be as many spectators ana demohsuators aS
The streets could hold. Even Barnums circus can Ill d CITY )
streets. People, as a matter of fact, like to demonstrate.
1t has been a human habit since the beginning of mahklnu.
And we like to cheer some fellow human VINO mas Deen hi'eo
to the top. I'm the case of the king of England or of Italy us
by no virture of their own, but solely by the accident OF Dlrth
and Just why there should be so much cheering for kings we
have never been able to make out, unless it is In the 1act Una
thew represent the people collectively, or the power of the gov
eminent. That must be it.
And as for presidents, while they are apt to De mucn
ADLER than kings, still there is something accidental ABOUT
them also. For instance, if two years ago either in Kansas or
California, a few men had voted differenty-Just a Re" =
Charles E. Hughes, if he had so desired, would now De ridihg
about in Europe before applauding multtudes instead OF
Woodrow Wilson. And if in Kansas, where many pacllists
lived, they had not been told that she kept usoout OF wal" they
might have voted differently in that mercurlal state: . u you
see, the world ways along and we continue to go along win
it. God help us all.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-01-11
THE VOICE GOD HEARD

Not much has yet been written of General FOch, virtual!
aolhing of the more human side" of the man VINO GROVE
Hindenburg and his horde of huns from the SOIL OF france
and followed him to the Rhine. But we have been permitted
to read of his religious devotion and his faith in the religion
of Christ. The Tribune is indebted to a reader in Chicago fol-
the following copy of a prayer written by this distinguished
soldier at the request of a lady in France:
so Eternal Father. God of Armies: offer Thee the
Most Precious Blood of Jesus Christ, Redeemer and
Prince of Peace. at whatsoever hour of day or night, in
whatsoever spot on earth it may be, when this Thy gift
flows upon Thy affairs; in atonement for my sins; for
all the needs of Thy Holy Church; for the consolation
of the souls in Purgatory; for the conversion OF unDe-
levers and sinners; for the Dying now and throughout
the day. offer it also for the expiration necessary for
the dreadful deeds of war; for our poor soldiers and
sailors. for their families; for those who command and
for those who obey; for those who live and for those
who fall; for those who suffer and for those who die;
for wounded, for sick, for afflicted in mind or body; for
all poor prisoners; and for all helpers of each and every
degree.
CIV the saving virtue of the Blood of the Lamb, ever
living, vet ever inundated, by the Holy Faith, and Hope
and Charity given by Him, o God, our God, hear our
PRAYER! o grant that each one may do, by Thy grace,
his duty as he ought, strong and brave, and casting
away despair! o grant, Father of mercy, An-Compas-
sionate, that Thou Thyself be with us, to Thy Glory,
and the salvation of our souls! O hear our cry for
France, for her friends, and for her enemies, too,
within and without! Do Thou, from Heaven, help us,
and by Thy Holy Spirit send True Peace on earth, and
good will among men; that all may love Thee, and for
Thy sweet sake that all may love their fellow men!
Amen!
It has been written of Foch that he never. during tn
war, permitted a day to pass that he did not take time TO ente
a church for prayer. But how unlike the kaiser. whose ap
peals to God were always through public proclamations, o.
kilograms, radiograms and press dispatches.
Evidently the voice that was heard in Heaven was tn
voice of Foch.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-01-11
RONDS+PRESENT AND FUTURE

Lets finish the job" is to be the slogan for the next ana
last Liberty loan. for which we are told to begin saving up
our moneys.
And speaking of Liberty bonds, do not be discouraged d!
the fact that they have slumped in the markets. you can
not get 400 cents on the dollar for them at the present time,
not more than about 95 cents. But you should not sell them
for that. The slumping is due to the fact that many nave
thrown their bonds on the market to close up financial mat
ters at the close of the year. 1t also happens that many per-
sons have used their bonds to make payments in the stores,
especially in the larger cities, during the Christmas season
and the stores, not caring to keep them, and having mace
profit enough on the sales OF the goods are placing :,
sale The average store cannot hold unlimited quantities of
such bonds. 1t hasn't the capital. Many corporations also
have paid dividends in Liberty bonds, and the receivers OF
the dividends, being dependent on them for living expenses
have had to sell them.
But they will be absorbed and then the price of bonds
will be moved up, if not to par Immediately, at least pretty
close to that. Hold yours for par at least, and, II you can' hoio
them even after that. You will not find a safer place for your
money.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-01-11
GERMANY VIA SWITZERLAND

The Swiss newspapers in a desire to cultivate America
are sending a delegation to visit us and to cultivate and pro
mote some kind of entente cordiale. But there are some
among our allies who are suspicious of those editors, seeing
in them a concealed German propaganda of a most insldlous
kind. They tell us that all the newspapers in Switzerland
are German owned or at least German controlled except some
in Geneva. The coming of these editors is, therefore, viewed
as a German invasion in the Swiss name and dress.
The allied nations are suspicious of goods made in Swift
erland," since that may be used as a substitute for made IN
Germany" now that the Germans realize that the halo is OH
their trade mark. which was once so famous. Two-thirds of
Switzerland is regarded as German, racially. although Swiss
characteristics have been recognized. But there are a great
many Germans living in Switzerland who are from Germany
direct, or by immediate descent.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-01-11
BUILDING HOMES FOR WHOM?

In Washington they have a proposition to build a million
new homes to give employment to all. But where are they
ging to build them, if they raise the money out OF taxesN
Each taxed district will want its share of them. And how
are they to be bestowed? If one man is favored with a home
at a bargain price, will not all want the same consideration
at the hands of their government? Will they build them for
New Workers, in the tenement districts, where half OF the
people, while we were buying Liberty bonds, were cursing
the government because they believed in Germany rather than
in the good old U. S. A.?
It is easy enough to talk about taxing the people another
three billions of dollars and having Nevadans and CalifOrni-
ans buy the bonds, while the moneys are spent in parts of the
United States where loyalty is far from being even SO per
cent. Taxes are easily talked of, but in the end they are go
ing to be mighty hard to pay, for there are times coming when
the sap of world patriotism will not flow in the hearts OF
men as water flows in the streams when the spring melts the
SHOWS.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-01-11
STALKING THE PIRATE

Not even air fighting had anything as a sport on the
stalking of submarines in the now famous %" boats, or mys-
terry ships. of the British navy. In light of the detailed de-
scriptons now available the Trojan horse becomes a silly
and clumsy device by comparison.
Take the Suffolk Coast, for instance, latest of the 20
ships, now being inspected at a shilling a head, the proceeds
going to British naval charities. She was a collier to start
with. and still looks like a drab, dingy cargo boat. Yet by
onds bring a broadside to bear that will "out-gun" a destroy
er. To start with, she is laden with timber to increase her
buoyancy and thus, if torpedoed, delay her laundering long
enough for her purpose in life to be fulfilled. For the rest
nothing is as it seems. a false smOkestack containing a peri
scope is a point of concealment from which her captain can
watch his enemy, while himself hidden. The whole ship, in
Guiding the bridge. is connected fore and aft by a concealed
passage. Guns large and small are hidden in every concelv-
able spot.
In action the mystery ship carries a crew of forty-eight,
as against the fifteen she would normally carry as a cargo
boat. The panic party" is her pet deceit. When a U-boat
torpedo goes home all the motions of abandoning ship are
carried out. A boat is put overheard with what appears to
be the entire crew-all the rest remaining calmly hidden on
IA fair target. Meanwhile the ship is slowly sinking. Often
hours pass in this slow suspense. Stalking of big game new
err offered such opportunities for patience, steadiness of
nerve and thrill.
No service of the war has been more daring than that on
board these decoy ships. None has meant more to the allied
cause, for in the long run they proved to be the surest and
steadiest weapon of all the many that fought the submarine to
a standstill and kept the mastery of the sea with the surface
fleets.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-01-11

While Germany is asking us to help it out of its plight,
might it not be well for Germany to say that it is sorry for
the plights into which it helped all the nations of the world?
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-01-11

The Germans say they cannot see how they can prosper
if they have to give it all up. Do they mean it is hard to give
up what they have stolen?
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-01-11
A COLD PROBLEM

One of the problems before the peace conference will lie
400 miles north of Norway-and we think of Norway as about
the. farthest north. The name of the problem is Spitzbergen,
a series of islands about half as large as the area of the state
of Nevada, but on all that land no grass appears except for a
few DAYS in midsummer in the sheltered hooks.
S%pitzbergen is a land that no one wanted and no nation
appropriated until the Germans drew up the treaty at Brest-
Ltovsk with Russia, or rather made Russia sign what Ger
many drew up. In that treaty Germany took possession of
Spitzbergen. in the belief that the politically drunken crew of
Bolsheviki had the giving of the islands. That was a viola
ton of a status quo well in keeping with the German pre-
sumption to rule the world. But the British navy sent a ship
to the islands before the Germans could turn around and
hoisted the British flag there. 1t is now British terrtory-by
claiming it-but England does not want the islands and they
are to be disposed of at the peace conference. Presumably
they will be made part of the league of nations, if one should
be formed, and any league is entirely safe there, for no one
lives on the islands that will ever make any trouble in the
world. /
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-01-11

Fortunately, all of us are not persuaded yet that Uncle
SANS mission in the world is to be a universal policeman.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-01-11

At least Mrs. Wilson is having the time of her life, even
if the president has to work hard making speeches for many
occasions.