The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-12-11

III advance OF his c0untryS civilization.
old to this fact may his failure be ut
tributed.
Campos believed that the Cuban had
certain inalienable rights. AS a soldier
it was not his duty to question the &C
ton OF his government. AS commander
in-chief in Cuba he could apply his own
methods of pacifying the island. He
realized that the insurgent ranks were
being increased by the unemployed, and
of industry; but he was deceived into
believing that the Instruction. as in
the last war, was confined to the east.
lie did not complain because he found
the insurgents armed, but he went bold
y into the field to direct in person the
operations of his troops. He pursued hui
man methods, refusing to kill his prison-
sers He scolded his officers for their
misrepresentation of facts. and even is
sued an order censuring them for their
ridiculous reports of victories which ncY-]
er occurred.
& Spaniards could not understand these
methods of an enlightened man. Their
It was 4OO years ago, and consequently
Campos not only had the insurgents t01
fight, but the cenutries of Spanish bar
barisn as well They cfamoretf for
blood and for victories. which were
never Won; and because Campos told the.
truth and refused to kill except III bat
i9fle, Ire was accused of being in sy;npa-
thy with the insurgents.
In nominating Gen. Weyler to succeed
Campos, the Canovas ministry found a.
champion of true Spanish sentiment. -
| Why then it may be asked, has Gen..
/ .Weyler, with all the resources of Spain
Fat his command, and the sympathy of
the Spanish people. failed to put down
the Cuban insurrectiOn?
Il srhD =: = -
reporting the truth. Weyler began his
| campaign by denouncing as an enemy, OF
Spain anyone who should tell the ruth
| f it reflected upon the yalor Of Spanish
arms. Campos refused to kill his prison
| ers. Weyler began by allowing his
troops to slaughter the male inhabitants
| of village almost within sight of Ha-
| vana. Campos gave ali correspondents
free passes to go out with his troops and
watch his operations. Weyler took these:
passes away, prohibited correspondents
going out, and finally put two of them
in. MORO castle on the supposition that
| they had investigated his massacre of.
peacable citizens at Guatao.
| = Notwithstanding the fact that Weyler
has pursued methods just the reverse Of
his predecessor, he has not only failed to
bring the insurrection to an end. but
under his rule affairs in the island lave
gone from bad to worse. = -,
! If it were not for the ruthless slaugh-
ter of the noncombatants, his campaign
might we'll be compared to an immense
opera bouffe. He muzzled the press to
bureau of his own: His news was start
ling, interesting and amusing. He soon
proved himself fakir par excellence.
| First he killed Antonio Maceo, the rebel
chief, who, to prove that the Spanish
general lied, came to within a few miles
~ k~l y l,,,.,
the principal cities in the province. Then
| Weyler chased the arch-rebel with his
red-hcaded pins on the map of Cuba, un-
! til he lost him somewhere in the swamps
of Matanzas.
About this time some of VIEWERS SOL
dicrs, found all American tramp. who
had lost his way on a country road, and
fallen asleep by the wayside. The SOL
diers imagined that they had got hold of
some person of Importance, and although
the poor fellow could scarcely speak a
word of Spanish, Weyler issued an extra
announcing the capture of a celebrated
rebel chief known as Inglesito. The
tramp was put in Jail to be Immediately
court-martialed and in all liability
he would have been shot if the right
Inglesito hadn't mixed up the case by OPP
portunely appearing IL the vicinity and
burning a" plantation.
After Weyler had lost Maceo and his
! reUClllUttS III lLC SNdu1I)S VI Md-
tanzas, he published the news that they
were driven out of Havana and were
on the run towards the east, where they
could do no further harm. But no SOON
err had he published this news than the
rebels came dashing back across Havana
news of a great battle in which the Span
iards claimed to have killed Il lot of
horses, and they guessed they had killed
some rebels. In spite of this BATTLE the
rebels continued their raid across the
country, sacking and burning all the
towns they came to. while Weyler'ss
troops got somewhere behind them and
reported that they were chasing them.
Then Maceo invaded the: province Of
Pinar del Rio for the second time. and
Weyler built his celebrated trocha to
keep the invaders in the country which
they had invaded. He thought they
would get tired of devastating the
fruitful country. and then when they at
tempted to come out he would catch
them. But they didn't attempt to come
out, so Weyler announced that they
were all starving to death. and issued
his decree of amnesty, offering pardon
to all who would come i'll and surren-
der. AS they didn't show any signs of
taking advantage of this decree, Weylcr
sent the battalion Alfonso MI. to sec
what the matter was. The rebels drove
the battalion into the sea. and then
Weyler. losing all patience. declared his
intention of going in and DISCRIMINATING
them. AS he breathed dire vengeance
upon. them. he located their stronghold
upon his big map Of Cuba. Running
across his map in; the center of pinar del
Rio was a mountain range. On the top
of this mountain range he found the
rebels at place designated as Cacara-
jicara, and he stuck a black pin there to
represent them. Then with red-headcd
pins representing his own troops. he
marched two columns upon Cacaraji-
cara. The thing worked beautifully.
There he had the black-heatcl pin rep
resenting the black hearted rebels taken
He rubbed, his hands with glee, called his
chiefs to look at his plan, and hastened
to telegraph his orders to tho front.
Gen. Suarcz 1nclan was OH the north
side of the mountain range. while Gen.
Bernal was on the south side, just in ac-
cordanec viii, the captain-gsnerat's plan.
and so Wpyler tclegraphed them that
they must both march to the top of the
mountain from their respective sides. and
there take the rebels between two fires.
Gen. Brrnal looked up ut the mountain
from his side. while Suarcz Inclan
looked UP. from his side: then. Gen. Wcy-
ler from his palace in Havana gave the
word to march. Rernal had no map
| Spanish officers in the field never incum-
Der themselves with such contrivances- :
50 he pressed n peasant into service to
show him the way up the mountain. On
the pretenses of getting his bride, the
peasant sent his brother ahead to. notify
his countrymen that the Spaniards were
coming s ;
-Suarez Inclan climbed the mountain
from his side and came upon Cacsraji-
| cara. He opened fire upon the strong
hold. expecting Bernal to do the same
from his side. But Gen. Rernal bad
climbed to the top of the mountain and
! hadn't found Cacarajicara. Weyler's
map was wrong. That mountain was
six leagues across the top, and Cacaraji-
| cara was on the side next to Suar.z H.
| clan. Instead Of taking the rebels be-
! tu.aen two GraS tho Sna l,iSi, l