The record-union., 1897-08-11

mate that makes Spanish tyrants so
cruel. The inquisitors We're the blood
lest of the bloody Even as late as 1874
did the inquisitors burn people, until
Napoleon stopped the business.
This assassination will have a good
effect in every way. 1t Will help the
Cuban cause a great deal. Yes, Gu
bans, Carlists, socialists, anarchists,
Republicans, Philippinists liber-
ty-loving man should rejoice at the
deed. 1t was a blow against tyranny
and will have a great moral effect.
That old fellow, Sherman, who is Sec
retary of State, even he denounced
Spanish tyranny, and, L suppose, SYM
pathizes with such doings."
Claus Zimmerman, formerly editor of
Die Brandfackel' ('~The Fire BRANDY,
said: THE assassination is the best
and most correct answer to the BARGE
Iona affair, where hundreds of anarch-
lists were crippled imprisoned and tor.
tured. Canovas deserved it"
August Lott, member of the An
archist Singing Society, said:
"Canovas inaugurated a regular
reign of terror. He kept every intelli-
gent man in the country under the eye
rejoice at his death.
But I am sorry it came so quickly
and painlessly. He should have been
caught and then tortured for days and
weeks, just as he caused anarchists to
be tortured.
He should have been boiled in oil
and f1ayed alive. He deserved it,
GREAT LOSS TO SPAIN.
ST. PAUL, Aug. 10.-Senator Davis,
Chair man of the Foreign Relations
Committee of the Senate, was asked
what would be the probable effect of
Senior Canovas' death upon these rela-
tions. He replied: Spain meets a great
loss in the death of Senior Canovas. He
was the mainstay of the Spanish Gov
elnment, and, w1thal, was a man OF
great ability. It is difficult to say, from
this distance, who will take his place,
but it Will not be SagaSta. The Liberals
will hardly come into power as a result
of this assassination. The same party
will remain in power, I believe, and
do not look for any immediate change
in the relations existing between Spain
and Cuba or between Spain and the
United States.
Spain certainly has no reason to find
fault with the treatment accorded her
by the United States. Surely no coun-
try with a colony standing in the rela-
ton to another country that Cuba
stands to the United States has ever
been as we'll treated by the other coun-
try interested as Spain has been by the
United States. We have enforced our
neutrality laws, even to the extent Of
arresting and imprisoning our own citi-
zens who are charged with filibuster-
ing We have allowed the destruction
of millions of dollars worth of Amerl-
can property, and the Spaniards in
Cuba have even arrested our citizens
and put them in their prisons. No
country ever received more lenient
treatment at the hands of any nation
than Spain has received at the hands
of the United States. l do not think
however, that Spain can hold Cuba.
do not think she will ever conquer the
island. 1 believe that Spain will be
worn out at the end of the next dry
season, and that she will have to give
up the island
SENATOR STEWARDS OPINION.
NEW YORK, Aug. 10.-United States
Senator William Stewart of Nevada,
QBScuSSlIlS LIlG aSSdSSIIlhllOlA VI ACliLiOA
Canovas, said
considering the fact that Canovas
was responsible for the Barcelona trials
and sustained Weyler in his barbarities
in Cuba, it is very evident that the an
archists got the worst man they could
find to wreak their vengeance on The
Barcelona trials and the Cuban atroci-
ties are the legitimate parents of an
archy, on the principle that crime pro-
duces crime Anarchy among the poor
and desperate can easily be suppressed
by law when atrocities in high places no
longer exist 1t is unjustifiable acts and
the subversion of law by rulers that
breed anarchy and revolution among
the masses.
''The test of the absolute barbarity
of a nation is it's administration OF
criminal law Any country that would
compel persons, by torture or other
wise, to incriminate themselves, is bar
barous and not entitled to- recognition
i'm the family of nations. That was
what Spain did under Canovas."
Senator Stewart said that famine
abroad had caused the present boom in
business and it could not be permanent
under the single gold standard.
KENTUCKY REPUBLICANS.