The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-03-14

tells OF his experiences in the Morro for
trying to expose the fruits OF General VAL
erian Weyler's recent brutal prociama.
tions-'a massacre OF unarmed. peaceful
country people at the town OF Guatao. a
dozen miles from Havana, by Spanish
volunteers. and describes the tortures to
which Walter Grant pysart. an INNOCENT
yelle another reported. was thrown into
jail rs soon as he arrived in Cuba, and
yet Dupuy de LONE cynically says that
in Cuba.
HORRORS OF 1871 RECALLED.
"But let us refute the minis ter's state
menis. The book of Dondcris exists, and
II the name of Weyler does not specifically
occur II is because Valmaceda and other
superiors OF his take the credit for his
atrocities. VIII Minister Dupuy de Lone
deny that eight students We're butcheretl
In Havana in November 1871? VIII he
deny the assassination committed by Bur-
ns rel IN M ne Nirgin,us affair; where Amsrl-
ward their private parts desecrated, as
was done with the brave Crittendcn and
his nifty kentuckians, from whose skulls
Spanish beasts drank Spanish wine" is
the crime of the Mora family of the 9th
of January. 1871, forgotten by Spain. when
two of Cuba most beautiful women ana
their children Were violated insuited. and
burnt alive to conceal the horrible crime
And did not Hamilton Fish, The secretary
OF state of the United States himself take
cognzanca OF the barbarities committed
by Srain's officers, among which was
Weyler?
Can Mir. Dupuy de LONE deny this
crime of weyler committed under his
command on the farm OF l.avado, in the
territory of Las Tunas? There are wit
nesses 10 this occurrence, and II is 10
excuse for Weyier to say that he only
obeyed orders. or for De LONE to argue
men. Eugen!o and Lorenzo Odoardo.
brothers, and relatives Of Ayuilera the
vice-president of the Cuban republic. were
sick on their farm. They were cared for
daughter eight years old. The troops of
Weyler surprised the place. captured the
men ana the woman and, child. and took
them TO the camp, of WeSler. qWeSler or
in tbs PRESENCE OF the lady. He forMe 4
the soldiers in u circle, placed in the cen
ter the poor woman and the child, de-
naked. forced her to dance by whipping
her before The drunken and passionate e
soldiery. All the efforts OF The vortuous
woman to cover herself with the child
Were unavailing; the troops laughed AMI
ieered; the unfortunate victim was given
up to the lust of the troops; she died the
next day. Weyler was the executioner
of the French family of Rigoteau. for
which Spain had to pay large indemnity.
DIARY OF lGNAC1O MORA.
Let, Dupuy de LONE read the diary of
possession, dated the eth of May. 1872,
the very epoch in which Weyler was in
command Of the Spanish forces in that
provinces. The stails,' ne declares,
which the postillira. Juan Torres. gives
me Of the operations of the enemy are
horrible. They assault the families; they
rob them. They killed Mercedes Henan-
dec and the wife OF Lieutenant Colonel
Sn hAp al ali utn1 fh. l,il-
dren of that unfortunate woman. They
committed other assassinations. On the
lst of June. 1872 he says IN the Migial,
they killed Juana Gregoria Torres. after
old. The total number of murders COM
mitted in Canto from the Sth 10 the 2sth of
May was twenty-eight, of which thirteer,
were women and eleven children. IN Es-
tancia Grande they killed three women
and a child of years
"Weyler branded the Cuban women in
the bosom. as II they Were cattle. He
killed the prisoners in the jails by suffo-
eating them with charcoal. 1t was this
man Of whom Martinez Campos said once
that he came to Cuba the very dead
would rise against Spain.
THE French papers of a year ago tell
how he crushed anarchsm In Barcelona.
He arrested BY Wholesale innocents and
suspects in the darkness of night. He tor
tured them most inhumanely. If Minis
ter De LONE wants to know how, he can
read the press of that time. | dare not
repeat. for decency's sake, the torments
TO which he submitted the prisoners. He
and tantalized them by Offering them
water which he did not allow them to
touch. lie applied the inquisition. He
killed 200 people, among them women and
children.
II have asked for the terrible exposure
of his acts published in a Partisan paper.
and when /; comes | shall send copy TO
the minister who defends the man who Is
~ Of tn fri
ca and the lsle of Pines, and who Is, in
fact, clearing the prisons by killing the
.captives. OF course Mr.. De LONE would
like names of persons who have seen
these horrors. They dare not speak They
know what happens to those who disobey
the DEGREES of the autocrat: but the book
OF blood Will ere long be published, simi-
lar to the one which was published in the
last war. a copy of which Minister DE
LONE can obtain In New York. and in
which he Will see the thousands of de-
fenseless Cubans executed by his govern
ment, by his nation, which lost Italy hy
her crimes. the Low Countries by her
murders. and the entire American CONT
nent as a punishment for her extermina-
inSratitude to the native races. The data
used by Senator Morgan were from the
official reports forwarded from Madrid
by the United States minister We're re-
Vised by John d. Champlin, and are in
contrOvertible. and az to the translation
of Senator Lodge. In which the word .ex-
terminate Is used for clean out there is
no essential difference; it is a mere quib-
BILE of the casuistic mind of Philip H.
PROPERTIES OF THE SLAIN.
"And as to the conduct of the war,
when. in the history Of any civilized ma
ton, has the property of the slain gone
TO the General and officers of the victori-
Gus army? General Jose Marti was killed
at Don Rios; instead of his watch and
valuables being given to his widow ana
only child, the watch was given to the
minister of war in Spain. the ring was
army, who took ii from the dead hero's
inger and the resi- of his things Were
distributed among the mother country
"Of the horrors committed in this revo-
luton by the Spanish commander. the
American press have daily reports; IL is
have not been the authors of~those re-
ports. and II would be too much for Min
iSter de Lone to declare that either the
great Americans press has sold itself to
the Cubans. or that all the American
newspaper men send exaggerated re-
ports to cater to the American taste
81 will very soon publish as many of
General We!lers innumerable crimes us
possible. I am now getting such accurate
facts together as will identify Weyler as
the author of similar IL not the same
crimes exposed by Donderis In his book
and by citing year and place prove to the
world that To,lrquemanda. Alva, Morllo.
and Bores, Spanish angels. renowned in
history for their humane methods, are
all incarnate in the Captain General of
Cuba, Naleriano Weyler. the Butcher
AMERICANS DYING OFF FROM
HEART TROUBLE.
Tho Best Heart and Brain of the Country