Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1896-04-04
MORE SPANISH CIR UELTIES
Said to Surpass the Worst Of
the Armenian Outrages
And be or Daily Oecurre nce-Bener
DE LOme' Insists That the Reports
are Very Much Exaggerated.

Washington, D. c., April THE
message from Havana giving the details
of the killing of FIVE prisoners BY the
Garrote raised cry of horror in Wash
ingtSn. Senior Dupuy de LONE, the
Spanish minister, admitted that the men
had been killed, but declared that the
form OF punishment was the one pre-
scribed by Spanish law. He said the
men were negroes and had been guilty
of a most atrociouS crime in hanging
merchant at Guira Melena and in kill
ing a small boy at the same place. He
said the details of the execution had
been exaggerated.
The reports to the Cubans In Wash
layton declare that the horrible execu-
tio@ of the Ave men at Havana is but a
sample of the atrocious cruelties of Cap
tain General Weyler in Cuba. They de-
clare that they have information indi-
catiag that such crueIties are practiced
nearly every day in Cuba, and that they
are : horrible as to be beyond compre-
heMslon.
Senior Quesada, who represents the
Cuban party in Washington, said such
incidents as the one reported today
only gave a vague idea of The reign of
terror that is now in progress on the
island He continued:
ATROCITIES are being committed every
week in Cuba that surpAss In cruelty
the worst Armenian outraGes, over
which such a storm of popular indigna-
ton was raised in this country. The
cTuelties reported in this execution will
be denied by the Spanish authorities
and the denial will be believed by the
American people because they cannot
conceive how such crimes can be com
mittSd by a civilized nation. The Span
iSh authorities are conducting in Cuba
today exactly the same sort of warfare
that the Apache Indians in Arizona
waged twenty years ago on the frontier
They are mutiiating their victims in
exactly the same way and are using the
most bRrbarous methods of warfare
Senior Quesada said he had no doubt
that the FIVE Ren put to death had beer
guilty of some oAense against the Span
lSh rule and that perhaps Their offenser
merited the death penalty, but no matter
what their offense was, they were en-
titled to reasonably humane punish
ment. The fact that they were put t,
death IL, ite@IF In MT rAyoIkipo for tka,
may have deserved it, but that the,
were tortured in the most barbarou
manner should arouse the indignation
of all civilization.
He continued; 1--WE do not ask th,
American people to lock to the event
of the present war to form their conclu
sions about Spanish cruelty. 1t is
matter of history and the history tina
records just such cruelties was no
written by Cubans or by Spaniards, blu
by Englishmen and Frenchmen. w
can well understand that any reports tn
Cubans may spread in the United State
at this time about Spanish cruelties viii
be looked upon as prejudiced and un
fair. For that reason we have not at
tempted to keep the American peopl
advised of their atrocities. The Spanisl
are In control on the island of Cuba an
they exercise censorship over tho tel
egraph and mail that prevents a tru
statement Of the affairs there beinl
known, but the truth will come out gen
orally and the people of this countr,
will put stop to the warfare in time.
"When Spain sent Weyler to Cuba
was hoped his presence in Cuba woul
terrorize the Cubans and that he woul
. put a speedy end to the war the minut
u he put his foot on the island. He mad
Y his reputation in Barcelona, where h
crushed out the anarchists. His eontrt
c of Cuba, however, was a grave mistak
1 because his methods of warfare will b.
: come known in time and civilized PEI
e pie will not tolerate HIS"