People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1896 — ACTS OF REPUBLICANS. [ARTICLE]

ACTS OF REPUBLICANS.

Spanish Politics Cut a Large Figure in Anti-American Riots. Barcelona, March 10—The antiAmerican sentiment here is increasing instead of abating. The local newspapers are fanning the flame. They state the United States can only put 40,000 men into the field and that the American navy is but a trifle superior to the Spanish. Careful investigation shows conclusively that Spanish politics have had a big hand in the Barcelona disturbances. Nearly all the inhabitants here are Catalans and the Catalans almost to a man are republicans. They are heartily opposed to the present government and are making demonstrations here against the United States with the direct purpose of embarrassing the government and possibly causing its overthrow. There is absolutely no enthusiasm here over the Cuban war. Whenever the troops start for Cuba they are not eyen given a cheer.