A recent campaign in Puerto Rico by the Independent Regular Brigade under the command of BrigGeneral Schwan . Ricothat she often toppled over backward andcrushed the American soldier. To stealanything, from a kiss to a cow, was almosta capital offence; while houses and churchesmight have been lined with gold and jasper,or infected with the small-pox, so stringentlywere we kept out of them — at least duringthe hostile period. This was all a mighty good thing forsomebody, no doubt, but it detracted inlarge chunks from the glamour of war for thesoldier-boy; and I fear that the majority ofus felt
A recent campaign in Puerto Rico by the Independent Regular Brigade under the command of BrigGeneral Schwan . Ricothat she often toppled over backward andcrushed the American soldier. To stealanything, from a kiss to a cow, was almosta capital offence; while houses and churchesmight have been lined with gold and jasper,or infected with the small-pox, so stringentlywere we kept out of them — at least duringthe hostile period. This was all a mighty good thing forsomebody, no doubt, but it detracted inlarge chunks from the glamour of war for thesoldier-boy; and I fear that the majority ofus felt hurt, if not sorely cheated. Nor isit at all certain that the average inhabitant ofPuerto Rico is worth coddling, protection,prosperity, and the immunities and bless-ings accorded him by his new rulers. Athick, stout cudgel or a bright, sharp axewill be more effective than honeyed wordsin helping him cheerfully to assimilate newideas; though no one will believe it here athome until the hurrah is all over and someof the truth gets into general circulation. About one-sixth of the population in this <. YAUCO TO LAS MARIAS 35 island — the educated class, and chiefly ofpure Spanish blood — can be set down asvaluable acquisitions to our citizenship andthe peer, if not the superior, of most Ameri-cans in chivalry, domesticity, fidelity, andculture. Of the rest, perhaps one-half canbe moulded by a firm hand into somethingapproaching decency; but the remainder aregoing to give us a great deal of are ignorant, filthy, untruthful, lazy,treacherous, murderous, brutal, and black-Spain has kept her hand at their throats formany weary years, and the only thing thathas saved them from being throttled is thepowerful influence in their discipline effectedby the Roman Catholic Church. Whenour zealous missionaries have succeeded inleading them into the confines of othercreeds, we shall have all the excitement wewant in Puerto Rico, and the part of ourarmy stationed there will
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