Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-06-30

5000 spanish oficials-every one OF whom has
come from spain vita commission in his pocket
known in the colonial secretary's ofice at Madrid
10 mean from the first nothing better than
LICENSE TO ROB AND KILL
there is not from end OF the year to the other
a single order emanating from this authority
backed by sword and musket which Is on the line
OF justice to Cubans, or even within the meager
confines Of damnable Spanish law. The entire
regime in CUBA is one OF personal Will by bad men,
Prom Tie captain-general TO his meanest slave the
maker and executioner. All law within this
island to-day Is merely the rugged discipline OF
the knife and bullet existing among men banded
hopeless other men-'.n the name Of the crown"
You are arrested in the name OF the crown"
Your property Is confiScated In the name OF
the crown" You are torn from your home and
incarcerated in the Cabana or Moro dungeons,
without charge against you, an the name OF the
crown" You are tortured with thumbscrews,
beaten with clubs, starved among vermin Gall this
Is proven to have occurred within the past month)
'in the name OF the crown" And you are shot by
the Spanish soldery upon the highway, In your
home, in the street, or upon the plaza red with
SPANS butcheries for a hundred years, 'in the
name OF the crown" In the name OF God and hu,
manlty, how long will the United states stand
idly by and permit these inconceivably inhuman
atrocities, and these inconceivably horrible gov
ernmental barbaritieS TO continue In the name OF
the Spanish crown?
THE MOUNTAIN OF DEBT.
Outside OF plumber OF citizens and business inter-
ests by Spanish officials, the mountain OF debt
piled upon the island is startlngy stupendous. No
means OF ascertaining the truth can be found. The
oLcials VIII not give such information; IL Is 50
TO compute II. Fifty years ago. when Cuba was the
richest spot on the globe for its area, 50 OO0OOO
was sufficient for an annual budget providing both
for spanish proflgacy and great public improve
ments- She has been forced for the last twenty
years. through the most scandalouS taxation, TO
provide annual budget or fully $35, 0OO, 600.
When the irredeemable paper money OF her ''Span-
ish Bank OF Havana, forced upon the people at the
point OF the bayonet Enough all taxes are In the
same way forced from them In gold), which must
reach s20000O,OO0, be taken into account, her &C
tual debt, according TO most conservative esti-
mates. must reach S50OOO00OO. More than one
half of this enormous sum has simply been stolen
and pOcKeted by these military brigandS from
SPANS colonial ONCE.
WHY THE UNITED STATES SHOULD OWN CUBA.
IL is but fair TO answer the unsentimental ques-
ton: Should we end this injustice and wrong by
buying or taking Cuba, IN what would we profit?
In these respects the befest and truest facts that
can De penned: In possessing the very key to the
richest portions the American continent In gain
ing winter sanitarium for the ailing OF our sixty
million of people, whose beauty and value not even
the mighty powers or a Humboldt could ntly de-
scribe In owning endless supply garden OF FRUIT,
vegetables and flora for the mighty cities OF our
coast and interior; In adding million and half
already loyal people TO our population;
In securing $1,000 square miles OF the richest
SOIL on the globe; In acquiring boundless
forests or valuable commercial woods worth
as they stand to-day fully $1,000, 900, 900;
the world; In securing sCgar-lanGS producing
SOO,QOO tons OF sugar annually, nine-tenthS OF
which Is now consumed by US, without 1mptngtng
on the market OF single American sugar-grower
OF to-day; In possessing cof1ee-iands capable or
annual production Oi 100000 tons, but 100 900 less
than the worlds annual yield, or three times the
whole amount we annually purchase and
consume; In acquiring asphalt and mineral depOs-
It's unequaled III the same area on the globe; and,
finally, in protecting our own 10. 0Ou citizens now
engaged with S20O,OOO,OOO OF American capital
either in cuba or IN direct trade with CUBA so
that within ten years 100000 or our citizens
and 600, CO., 900 OF our capital would thrill and
thrive la ooundiesS human progress IN this land
II free, OF li1mtabie possibilities.
THERE Is NO HOPE FOR CUBA
unless through the active, forceful sympathy Of
tie United States. 1t is needless TO suggest expe-
dents. She has been PROSTATE since 1868, with
the tigress, Spain. sucking at her very hearts
blood. History Cannot furnish another so hideOuS
spectacle OF governmental diaOolisIn. The SUI
prene junction OF ownership Is reasonable protec-
tion OF thing possessed. Nineteenth century laws
wisely punish men for cruelty TO even brutes; and
the State QeprlVeS parents OF children they may
abuse. Spain, forever i detestaDle and retro
greSSlye power, fiotS In rapine and murder In the
very portals OF humane republics. As we have
lively, tempered the force or mOnarchs' iron
blows upon grooming peoples around the girdle Of
the globe the 5upeflatiye shame or this pres
ent oar0arism Is inexpreSsby revolving TO every
true American. The Irrevocaole logic OF civiliza-
tons progress and our own destiny decree the
end OF tyranny on this continent. III that unc-
tuouS and cowardly hypOcrtte, Diplomacy, may
be Invoked and speedily utilized, that will be WE'LL
III not, there yet remain American virlity, valor,
power. cuba l. no longer SPANS. She Is ours
CLEAN and glow in our splendid galaxy of states.
EDGAR L. WAKEMAN,