, 1888-07-01

years from each province. When the
fact is stated that these are absolutely the
only elective offices in all Cuba, and that
but one or two of the Cuban provinces
are permitted to return deputies sympa-
thizing 10 any degree with Cubans, the
abject political hopelessness and degrade
ton of Cuba are sufficiently shown.
Every one of the army of plundering Off
Gals in Cuba is an individual appointee
by the colonial minister 1.-THE heartless
Balaguer, at the present time) at Madrid.
The governor general at Havana, him
self a creature of the colonial minister,
with a salary of $50, 1000 in gold, a horde
of petty titled slaves and a standing army
of 10000 regular and As, 900 volunteer"
soldiers at his back. is infinitely more an
absolute dictator IN all civil and military
affairs than the car of Russia. His word
is law and execution of law, in point of
fact, over the property, person and the
most infinitesImal affairs, of every soul in
| Cuba. He is amenable to no law or
power on earth save the will of his politi-
cal creator and partner in crime, and the
material rewards of crime, the colonial
secretary.
His sole and only mission to Cuba is to
give 1t such q regime as shall enable him
and his master, by common and uncom-
mon robbery, by blackmail, extortion.
legalized bandolerism in dungeons of
political suspects" confiscation of es
tates. exile of citizens. persecution of
business and commercial interests, colossal
~brigandage and actual murder. when nee
essary, to wiring the last dollar in gold
from the island, not ever for Spain, but
for themselves, and it is an infamous fact
that no Spanish colonial secretary has
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tury, and no captain general has ever
been recalled, until, whatever the poverty
OF either Upon assumption of power, he
has possessed himself of millions of dol.
lars secured by the blacklist robbery from
the bravely patient people of Cuba.
The tentacles of this monstrous gov
ernmental devil fish are constituted, and
operate as follows: Each of the six
provinces has a civil governor (gobernador
civiD, who although another Madrid ap-
pointee. is simply a creature of the gov
ernor general at Havana, a sort of brig
and sub-chief. He is provided (also from
Madrid) with a provincial secretary, sec
rotary of finance, etc., and there is also
attached to his robber court three other
creatures, officials primero, segundo and
tersero, who are a sort of personal execu-
tors of personal edicts-for it is ridiculous
to suppose that any sort of law, or justice
under form OF law, exists in the unfortu-
nate island. These provincial governors
and their followers are vested with, that
is they assume and put In force, unlimited
civic and military powers for their own
benefit, in all small and general goadings
of the people. and in the same way and
manner collect the Infamous taxes and
customs duties, and execute all the per.
ooral napnnnon1o ~ Tho pnnrntlaar l.ototn,
in Havana. Aside from these central
military groups of assassins and robbers al
the provincial capitals, or intendancies,
each of the capitals are further prosecuted
by distinct and similarly organized mum,
cipal governing authorities. Each OF
these consist OF a mayor, treasurer, sheriff,
corporation secretary, and q horde OF
agents of misrule; while the unincorpor.
ated towns and the villages and pueblos,
are kept in a condition of inquisitorial
suffering by sheriffs, deputies and alcaldes
or bu rgomasters.
Without occupying space with hundreds
of authenticated instances | could relate,
| assert as fact, notorious through Cuba,
that from the captain general at Havana
down to the most insignificant alcalde Of
the humblest pueblo, through these TO-,
600 to $1,000 Spanish oficials-every one
of whom has come from Spain with q
commission in his pocket, known in the
colonial secretary's Office at Madrid to
mean from the first nothing better than
license to rob and kill-there is not from
one end of the year to another 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 Cubs
is n Of personal will by bad men. From
the captain general to his meanest slave,
the official, or the brutal soldier, is his
| own lawmaker and e%xecutloner.
All law within this island to day is
merely the rugged discipline of the knife
and bullet existing among men banded to-
gether to e~nslave, rob and murder help
less and hopeless other men-'in the
name of the Crown" You are arrest
ed in the name OF the Crown" Your
property is confscated in the name of the
Crown" You are torn from your home
and incarcerated in the Cabana, or Moro
dungeons, without charge against you, lin
the name of the Crown" You are tor
tured with thumb screws, beaten with
clubs, starved among vermin (all this is
proven TO have occurred within the
past month"; lin the name of the Crown"
And you are shot by the Spanish sol.
diery upon the highway in your home, in
the street, or upon the plaza red with
SPANS butcheries for an hundred years,
in the name of the Crown" In the
name of God and humanity how long will
the United States stand idly by and per
NIT these inconceivably inhuman atroci.
ties, and these inconceivably horrible gov
ernmental barbarities to continue in the
name of the Spanish CROWN
Outside of plumber of citizens and bust
ness interests by Spanish officials, the
mountain of debt piled upon the island is
startlingly stupendous. No means of as
pertaining the truth can be found. The
officials will not give such information. 1t
is so tremendous they have doubtless long
since ceased to compute it. Fifty years
ago when Cuba was the richest spot on
the globe, for its area, six millions of dol
lars was sufficient for an annual budget
providing both for Spanish proaigacy and
great public improvements. She has
been forced for the last twenty years,
through the most scandalous taxation, to
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