The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-08
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! Morgan. In reply to his inquiry Mr..
Rossiter Johnson, associate editor of the
American Cyclopedia, says the article
was written by Mr.. Antonio Bachiller
Morales, a Cuban who was a decided
and partial enemy Of Spain and that
he presumes that il will be easy to get
| access to the official reports in the de-
partment of state at Washington
have accepted the advice and in the
state department the following answer
has been given:
The minister of the United States
to Spain, on August is, 1872, quotes from
the Imperial, described as semi-official
journal at Madrid, of which the colonial
minister was director until he entered
the present cabinet, the following:
From the beginning of hostilities in
Cuba, $500 insurgents have been kill
ed in battle and 43, 800 taken prisoner
The minister adds: 1t is believed that
all prisoners of war taken are shot or
garroted.'
ut is plain that the American minis
ter, who was General Sickles, read the
item in the paper. The paper, FL I'm
percial, was owned by a cabinet min
lister (Senor Gasset Artime.) General
was believed that the prisoners We're all
shot or garroted. OF course that is not
true; that simply is belief, an opinion
from the expression of a belief. An Of
fetal report is made from the sta tement
in a newspaper that the prisoners were
taken and because the Impercial was
the property of a minister of the cab
met, the assertion is advanced that a
cabinet officer admitted that they have
been put to death.
THAT has been said in the United
States senate and endorsed by a vote
of that high body.
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge in
speech made on the 25th of February,
quoted from the Liberal Of Madrid, an
interview sent by telegraph from Cadiz
a the moment in which General Weyler
embarked for Cuba. The translation
has been given to the senator from Mas
sachusetts. My attention was called to
it by a telegram from Mr.. Taltaratt,
correspondent in the United States of
the Liberal from Madrid former mem
Der of the cortes. This distinguished
gentleman wired to me: General Wey-
Ter never said in any interview or con-
versation published in the Liberal that
he would exterminate the filibusterers.
What he said was that he would clean
out the western provinces of Cuba, of
fiilibusterers and that he would eXter-
inmate the small bands Of bandits
81 have now before me the text of that
interview. l will not stop to discuss the
historical Importance of a non-authoriz-
ed interview. But even taken as grant
ed that General Weyler said what is
printed the words that the person who
has furnished documents 70 Senator Ca
bot Lodge have made him pronounce
are not exact. The exact translation of
what General Weyler said is: ON my
arrival in Cuba, propose in the first
place to clean out fiIibusterers in the
provinces of Havana, Pinar del Rio,
Matanzas and LasVillas; be it well I'M
derstood that l refer for the moment to
the large bands which have invaded
them. Then will remain the small bands |
of bandits which l will eXterminate |
gradually
Nobody can believe that General
Weyler in the word 'exterminate' meant |
to put to death, but even if that sense
is applied to this word it is necessary
to understand those bands of bandits
in Cuba are and have been. 1 would |
like to know the opinion that the Amer |
lean planters, respecta BILE, law-abiding
citizens, who are working for their own
interests and for the prosperity of Cuba
have in that respect. What would be
done in this country with the people
who have been kidnapping and black
mailing the honest toiIers living out in
the country? What trea tment do they
think they deserve, people like Manuel |
Garcia, Mirabel, Matagas, Perico Del |
Gado and others. The paper TO which |
1 refer is at the disposition of the sem
ator from Massachusetts,, and of any
body who wants to see it.
81 cannot understand how all rules Of |
war that have been given by all civil |
lied nations are so cruel, so cruel and so |
tyrannical when they are applied in /
Cuba. 1 have before my eyes a sum-
mary of charges of inhumanity in con-
nection with the war of the rebellion in
the United States on both sides, taken !
from American history. l am sure that !
many of them are false, most of them /
some necessary and others !
But talking only as an |
and for the sake of argu-
ment, what l see in that list. cannot |
how people who are familiar
with the necessary evils of war have |
been able to use such harsh, unjust and |
offensive language against Spain.
I'm an English paper of those days
read the following opinion of the
American civil war: Stripped of its
it is a mere quarrel for ter
ritory; the antagonists are like Della
wares and Pawnees. War TO the knife,
pushed TO absolute eXtermina ton, is
what they have resolved on, and the |
people breathe language of massacre
and determination
This charge was no more justified |
than the charges which are now brought |
against Spain.
Il said nothing when that language
was used in the press, but l believe it IS
my duty, although against the conven-
tionalities of my position, to appeal as
l have to the honest common sense of |
the American people, when those words
are uttered from the capitol of the Unit
ed States.
Nothing is now done in Cuba that |
has not been done, and has not been
deemed necessary, in other countries
when at war. It would be possible and |
easy for me TO quote many facts not |
different from those which now arouse |
public resentment against Spain. l will
only ask persons wanting an honest and
opinion to read what the COM
manedr-in-chiefs of the American ar
mics OF both sides and what the amies
Of France and Germany have deemed
necessary for the protection Of their sol
dlers and the carrying out Of the war.
SEEN WITH THE NAKED EYE
Insurgent Troops May be Deserted From