A Noble Spaniard by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, Cal. · May 31, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 22.

A Noble Spaniard

By Editor

A Noble Spaniard.—Says the New Voice: "A story which ought to be published in the record of American generosity to Spain comes from the South Atlantic Ocean. While we were still at war, Captain Don Petro Millet, of the Spanish barkentine Gabriel, rescued the crew of a wrecked American bark, cared for them twenty-six days, and then positively refused to accept any remuneration. We are glad to remember that the Cid Campeador and Gonsalvo de Cordova, as well as Cortez and Weyler, were Spaniards. There is true nobility yet in the blood of the old Castile."

There has always been as much nobility in the native Spaniard as in that of any other race. What hurts the Iberian Peninsula is not Spaniards, but Catholicism.