Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1896 — A YANKEE ROASTING! [ARTICLE]

A YANKEE ROASTING!

A New England Humorist Scores Cubans and Spaniards. Mark Twain, the humorist, who has studied the Cubans and Spaniards in the native heath, say 6: In hi* struggles for his country’s freedom the Cuban patriot makes valorous use ot every method that can aid the cause. Murder, theft, burglary, arson, assassination, rape, poison, treachery, mendacity, fratricide, matricide, homicide, parricide and all cides but suicide are Instruments in his hands for the salvation of his native land; and the same are In the hands of the “oppressor” for the damnation of the same. Both parties, patriots and government servants alike, stand ready at any moment to sell out body, soul and boots, politics, religion and principles, to anybody who will buy, and they seem equally ready to give the same away for nothing when over their lives stand in pert!. Both sides massacre prisoners, both sides are as proud of burning a deserted plantation, or conquering, capturing, scalping and skinning a crippled, Mind idiot as any civilized army would be of taking a fortified city; both sides make a grand schoolboy powwow over it every time they fight all day long and kill a couple of sick women and disable a jackass; both sides lie and brag and betray and rob and destroy; a happy majority of both sides are fantastic in costumes, grotesque in manner, half civilized, unwashed, ignorant, bigoted, selfish, base, cruel, brutal, swaggering, plantation burning semi-devils, and it Is devotedly to be hoped that an all-wise Providence will permit them to go on eating each other Up until there isn’t enough left of the last ragamuffin of the lot to hold an inquest on.