Show SPANIARDS OP OF SOUTH AMERICA copyrighted 1898 by frank G carpenter 6 santiago chile sept 18 1898 1 I have just received letters and papers fronz from buenos ayres showing the intense hatred the spanish there feel for the united states it is bad enough here but there it is worse the argentine republic contains more spaniards thao any other country outside of spain it has more thap than and in buenos ayres alone there are over buenos ayres is the biggest spanish speaking city of the world A large part of its population is made up of spaniards of the lower classes cla ases people who know nothing of the united states Sta and who just now are violently inflame 4 against us the capital of the argentine is hence the hotbed of the antl anti american spirit of south america the spanish there gave more than million dollars to their cause and until now they have supposed that the wat W would be all one way the lower classed clan of the spanish down here are like the lower classes in spain they bellee believe that the spaniards are the strongest and bravest people of the world and until now had no idea that the yankees as they call us could conquer theol thea As a specimen of the way they talked talk and felt at the beginning of the war i cite the following which I 1 heard kodsi when war was declared a rather pram anent spaniard here baleto said to in an american I 1 you yankees are fools to make war wa against us why every one knows known that one spaniard can whip twenty yankees your think so do yu you replied the me american well you arbone are one spaniard and I 1 am one yankee I 1 dont cal care for the other nineteen but I 1 am pretty sure I 1 can lick you here and now it you want to try t ry it the spaniard had no more to say the legation here is not guarded and the minister goes about freely I 1 am told however that an american hack better keep his eyes open as he goes ades through the streets at night A prom anent englishman Ung lishman of iquique aquique warned me that I 1 might get a stab in the back or a blow with a stone if I 1 were not careful on the east coast where tha the mceben fueling eling is even more bitter than beret here policemen are stationed at the he consulates and legations this I 1 know tobe t the ease case in montevideo although it 1 am not sure as to rio janeiro I 1 understand der stand it is not the case in bueno ayres the different south american americ governments though they secretly sym 1 with spain are doing what they can to control the spaniard among their people they permit however all kind of meetings processions professions process ions tec te cetera eteri and it if spain should gain a victory there would be bonfires and general rejoicing they allow all sorts of vile sheets to be distributed cartoon ing the americans and ars are now put up in the leading american gitles advertising a new cigarette by which the spanish when they smoke it think oink they are burning up the yankees this is called el chancho chanche cigarette or the hog cigarette it comes from buenos ayres where the spanish call us hogs and publish a vile shet in which we are characterized as the pigs vf of the universe where they have got this contemptuous term I 1 do not know perhaps from the fact that they have heard that we make much money out of pork at any rate los yankees and los chanchos chatchos Chan chos are commonly the lower in re ferring to us posted throughout the alty of buenos ayres are sheets colored cigarette cartoons as big as a table choth representing president Me mckinley Rinley as a hog being marched arched in oft off to prison by two wo spanish soldiers the hog is dressed lr essed in the stars and stripes the ved red white and blue of our national nati onil alors colors ol ors his hands are tied behind him and tears drop from his eyes its as he is marched off crying why do you take me to jail par for teall ng such is Is ithe poster paster which a friendly nation allows to be put upon the bill lards of its capital the cigarette elexes lare are equally bad on one side Is wt is supposed to be a picture of our m r congress Coli gregs one hog as speaker in the national n atlo nal colors Is haranguing other ther hogs who sit alt ait the desks below on the cither side aide are pictures of span f im soldiers firing at the american fleet and hogs flying through gli the air in pieces other cigarette pictures chow naval engagements in which the bots 3 are being blown into atoms i there Is a leading pictorial weekly 01 0 buenos ayres which is being cincu I 1 la ted td by the thousands all over south eraca you see it in the spanish stores tores here hung up in the windows win dowst sa and it la is greedily bought and applauded by the people it is so vile that ft not n o t be tolerated as decent in eo erica aur gazette and yel I 1 lu mal are sunday school tracts le ae it in this paper there are weekly lat of the war the merican merl can always being pictured as aa ings 7 gerfe ett e president mckinley la is idu tooma as the king of the hogs in waft alii yaw N t issue which lies before me ithe ellef Is an illustration of the her pt the spanish feel at the friendly illations il lations ot america and england it awas of a picture of queen victoria ug a 4 crown and holding our F ithe pig ig mckinley as a baby on WT carvile lap while she acts act s the part 0 of wet I 1 to him below is 19 a spanish rhyme yme which reads you have found a good nurse nurge she will satisfy your hunger and boxt lt 11 over on an the sheet is a picture ot of a spanish general ro asting a lot of riga po go a mat and on the ol 01 other her side aide are vin sh soldiers lers cutting up hogs th this I 1 9 ag teja aabak bled public slaughter house of yankee kee piga go in addition there is an r bag cartoon describing the burst 01 04 a gyp gun on the massachusetts as Ws WO reported here pieces of pieces of pork are flying C the alir air this Is but one issue ax if it were snot not so disgusting it je be laughable other I 1 ies ve re aven worse some are abao I 1 AN tay y too vile to be described the rosh pi sh anxious to got get land C ibbe be r circulation of the sheet 1 anea troa nothing no thing to over foa pace nce it an their outside of the spaniards proper this country is full of 0 spanish ers era the chileans Chi leans as a a nation are for spain as against the united states they have had bad no love for us since the baltimore and the blaine trescott affairs and many of them really believe that we expect eventually to conquer not nio t only ithe best of the west indies but that we are ambitious to control montro I the whole of south america as well at the time president mckinley declared war with spain popular meetings were held in valparaiso and santiago and one million pesos apesos or over of our money was contributed to the spanish cause processions professions Process ions of spaniards and spanish sympathizers marched through the streets yelling death to the yankees and the papers denounced the action of our president and congress in unmeasured terms it was at this time that a plot was 1 formed by a number of spaniards and i pro chileans Chi leans to blow up the oregon and marietta in the harbor of j valparaiso it was known that these ships were on their way here and it had been stated that they would stop 1 at valparaiso explosives pere pur chased and an italian of valparaiso j who is skilled in making submarine 1 weapons of destruct destruction ign was employed 1 to prepare them for use it was in tended to place these under the two 1 vessels if possible and blow them to pieces while lying in what their officers considered a friendly port the plot was however revealed to our consul mr caples of valparaiso by a pro american chilean and he at once communicated munica ted it to mr henry L wilson the united states minister here mr wilson at once took the train for valparaiso pa ralso he called upon the intendente or governor and laid the details of the matter as far as he knew them before him these details were not complete but they showed the existence of a compact organization and studied plan the intendente was at first inclined to doubt the accuracy of the information but at the same time said that he would investigate the matter fully and would take every precaution to have the vessels protected he put his detectives at work and later on told our minister that his ini formation was correct and that thea the organization and plot existed he at once however made his arrangements to prevent this plot and any other that might be formed from being carried out he organized a complete police boat patrol of the harbor and when the marietta arrived the oregon having remained outs ideno boats were allowed to come near her except after the inspection spec tion and with the approval of the chilean officers this patrol was kept about her during the three days she lay here upon his return to santiago i minister wilson expressed to the min later ister of foreign affairs his appreciation of the prompt action of thie the intendente I 1 and his officials had the plot succeeded it would have been difficult for the government to have satisfactorily explained its non connection with it I 1 and a great deal of credit should be given to minister wilson and consul caples for their prompt action I 1 1 1 I find that henry L wilson the united states minister here Js Is doing much to better the relations between chile and the united states it is largely through his influence and his quiet diplomatic way of treating things that the tone of the chilean press has changed and several of the santiago papers have become almost yankee supporters in their editorials he has produced art an excellent Im impression in the official circles of the chilean capital pica and though he Is an ardent amerl ameri can he seems to be abundantly ase ame to hold his own and not offend toe the sensitive pro spanish chileans Chi leans at alt the same time he has organized taw consular service of the country so that full reports of all vessels likely to be used against the united states ali ar sent to him as soon as they enter the various harbors of chile which reports are at once forwarded to washington mt mr wilson is one of the young men inell in the diplomatic service he is just forty and his present office is the he first he has ever held he is a brother of united states senator john L Wil wilson sorl an by birth his father having been a member of congress and at the time of his death united states minister to venezuela after studying law in indianapolis and acting for a time as the proprietor and manager of the lafayette journal went to washington and settled at spokane here he engaged in banking and within a few years made fortune he suffered reverses during the recent panic and nd had ha 3 a lust just begun the making of a second ford foru tune when hen president mckinley asked 1 him to rev represent resent the united states 1 here he lives very nicely in santiago aj having a large house in the most fash conable part of the capital his wife and mother are with him and he his has three little children two of whom who in a to the Amerl american pan schools in connection with the pro 11 ll feeling here a rather amusing Irn Using dent occurred in one of our ca catholic holle churches the ache other day the inter prefer of OUT legation is a fine organ tet let 1 and his services are in demand at 1 sev eral of the best churches of santiago at while he WELs was in attendance at one of th them am several wee weeks ks ago wh when en the war 9 spirit was at its height the priest ft de i livered a sermon denouncing states and praising the spaniards the yankee organist could not of course re ply in words although his hi soul was filled with indignation but as the con gre gation rose to go he played the star spangled banner with all the force that tha he be and the great organ could supply 1 11 do not know that the tupe was 1 a familiar one to the priest but at taft writing the interpreter still draws haa salary as the organist the feeling here against the Y tan kees as they call us is largely d due ue to the ignorance of the chileans Chi leans as to oar on people keopf and to the remembrance thia that chile had to apologize for the ou autran outran ageous treatment of our sailors in tw baltimore affair the chileans Chi leans are 1 lor tensely patriotic they have a right w be proud of thelt their long little country and they think so much of it that mi haye have said the masses of them few that we want to conquer it tot for ow selves they cannot imagine a I 1 war that is not waged for cori conquest quest or re i and they laugh at the ides idea that the united states has been fight lAt S spain not from a hesire for cuba agi at S for dihe sake of humanity on the oilier j hand those chileans Chi leans who have b been to the united states are our strong 4 9 friends men like carlos rogers tr ix wealthy bustnes man of santiago who was present at ait the opening of the pho adelphia ade iphia museum salustio lo beechert Beech Beep hept ept beeche co valparaiso jorge asta buriaga Buru aga ex secretary of the chilean legation at washington and every other chilean callea n diplomat thohas who has been beara stationed in the united states are our friends and supporters what the fo peoples need is a closer to become business associates and fae friends chile might by a little col court ing inar give Us ua the advantage in a a cg of 7 m mercial L r cial and ma manufacturing I 1 line many ways and that to our profit akl chae in act owea a I 1 tt the first of her railroads imkea Tik akee and this was the first railroad built in south america her first great line was founded by a yan r vee xea named who brought j 48 M scheme to new york but could find no fia one to support it he then went to bondon Xon don and there organized the pacific steam team navigation company which has 0 the p most powerful fleet on the west coast it has sixty steamers including lenders benders 4 enders plying between valparaiso and 4 all the ports to the isthmus of panama aird and also a steamship line between valparaiso and liverpool it should pay mg dividends for with the chile chilean south american Azner ican steamship company aff wath which it combines it hd ha the of the freight abia ser travel and charges the highest rates rales the railroad between valparaiso and santiago a little over ove r JB agias liles was built by an american henry meiggs who constructed also many other roads in P peru eru meiggs came first to chile from california his partner there had ruined him financially and we ran away to avoid arrest owing some he arrived in peru almost OL penniless arliess but got the contract for this abad by off offering ering to build it f for or about half f the amount asked by some eng ng Z assi engineers he made money out of it and from that time he became one ne y odthe the greatest contractors of the isthmus he bull built t other roads and made fortunes Or tunes out of them he then went to chile and there contracted for works which cost tens of millions of dollars dolla rs we e built the famous oroya aroya road up the of lima which is the back ades d e s f steepest and I 1 doubt not the costliest cost liest f aad ever ever built and when he died he KU putting a tunnel into the mountain z aft or cerro de pasco to strike and drain q tire the great silver deposit there meiggs able min man but was as undoubtedly an r ether he was an honest man or not ft S have not been able to determine his f friends ends say he was and they state that out of his first earnings in chile he sent to california the for which ha was indebted others say he W was as tacky and in this connection I 1 was told today of a lottery scheme which it s asserted he worked to his profit we fc wre wate walking along alink the alameda and admiring ring the great palaces in which the nabors nabobs s of this city five 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