The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-05-15
LOOK NEARER HOME.

LOOh NEAhEh hUME.
The Greeks have called on tn
powers TO defend them against tn
Turks, and according to the direc
statement from the powers they wer
to put an end to the war when thu
was lone by either party. They hav
called, but the powers answer not
They turn the leaf ear to the voice o
weak Christian nation, when 1t plead
with them for protection for thei
women and children, who are being
mercllessly assaulted and murdered b!
q horde OF Pagans, who are a disgrace
to the civilization of the world and
blight to the eastern continent.
The great nations of Europe stanC
by while these outrages are enacted
before their very eyes, and raise no
a hand to stop the infdel Turk in hi:
assaults upon a Christian nation.
Each one is afraid to raise his voice
in meek p~rotestatIon against the afro
cities being committed every day by
that barbarous nation of murderers,
who are over-running one of h faIrest
countries of their continent because
they fear that their move may not be
sanctioned by the rest of the concert.
Their example is indeed u weak, cow
ardly one, and every man IN our liberty
loving country loses his respect for
them. But while we view their actions
with so little respect, let US turn our
eyes from the eastern continent, and
for a moment survey the state of affairs
nearer home.
Only eighty miles from the shores of
our own beloved land, and almost
within the shadows cast by our blessed
flag, for which brave men have will
ingly gwen their last drop of life-blood
that it might stand as it does, the SYM
Dol of ~juctice and freedom to all, IS the
fair island of Cuba, where every day
atrocities rs horrible as those being
enacted across the sea are committed,
and by a nation who calls herself civ
ilized. Non-combatants are led out
and shot as ruthlessly as n would kill
the most loathsome brute. Wounded
soldiers are captured in the hospitals,
where they lie almost at deaths door,
and stabbed to death, or as the
Spaniards have often done, burned in
the building, while the hired soldiers OF
WeyIer stand by with fiendish cruelty
and watch the torture which they have
wrought with their own hands. Moth
ers and daughters, whose sex would
protect them before anyone but fiends,
are outraged and murdered by these
Spanish birelings, and innocent chill
dren ruthlessly put to death.
The administration at Washington is
too slow in taking hold of this matter,
when every days delay means death
to the poo inhabitants of that little
island They have maintained their
side of ;he struggle for long time,
and have conducted a fair and hOnora-
BILE warfare. Now, let the administra-
ton of this country step in and put an
end TO the barbarous warfare which is
being waged by Spain, and President
Mckinley will, by that act, endear him
self TO every man and woman in the
land,
Post Dispatch: Everybody has read
about the lawlessness of Kentucky toll
gate mobs, but everybody has not read OF
the cause of This lawlessness. As might
be supposed it is the result of cor
poration greed. Lexington Ky, people
can drive VIZ miles out without paying
Q toll, while the farmers pay from %
so cents for every five miles. This
is exceedingly burdensome to small
farmers land market producers. The
legislature passed an act providing that
each county should decide the question
Of abolishing toll gates, but the toll
gate stockholders influenced the county
to decide that there must be a
count of the full voting population of
each county, and by this bubble the
toll gates were kept up. The Kentucky
tried p~eaceable methods before
they resorted to violence.
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