Identifier: panamacanalinpic01abbo (find matches)
Title: Panama and the canal in picture and prose ..
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Abbot, Willis John, 1863-1934. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York (etc.) Pub. in English and Spanish by Syndicate publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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$250,000 annual payment. That went to his superiors who planned the revolu-tion and told him about it when it was all over.The influx of Americans brought him no particularprosperity, unless he drove a hack. They lived inCommission houses and bought all their goods intheir own commissary. It was true they cleanedup his town, but he was used to the dirt and thefumes of fumigation made him sneeze. Doubtlessthere was no more yellow fever, but he was immuneto that anywaj. But way down in the bottom of his heart thereal unexpressed reason for the dislike of the massof Panamanians for our people is their resentmentat our hardly concealed contempt for them. To-ward the more prosperous Panamanian of socialstation this contempt is less manifested, and heaccordingly shows less of the dislike for Americansthat is too evident among the masses of the people.But as for the casual clerk or mechanic we Americanscall him spiggotty with frank contempt for hisundersize, his lack of education and for his
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POTTERY VENDORS NEAR THE PANAMA in\ .MARKET 234 PANAMA AND THE CANAL large proportion of negro blood. And the lowerclass Panamanian smarting under the contemptu-ous epithet retorts by caUing the North Ameri-cans gringoes and hating them with a deep,malevolent rancor that needs only a fit occasionto blaze forth in riot and in massacre. Spiggotty,which has not yetfound its way in-to the diction-aries , is derivedfrom the saluta-tion of hackmenseeking a fare— speaka-da-Eng-lish. Our fellowcountrymen witha lofty and itmust be admitteda rather provin-cial scorn for for-eign peoples—foryour average citi-zen of the UnitedStates thinks him-self as superior tothe rest of theworld as the citi-zen of New Yorkholds himselfabove the rest ofthe United States—are not carefulto limit its appli-cation to Pana-manians of thehackdriving class.From his loftypinnacle of supe-riority he brandsthem all, from themarket woman with a stock of half a dozen bananasand a handful of mangoes to the banker or

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