The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-05-01
We Have an Armenia of Our Own.

We Have an Armenia of Our Own
From the Kansas City Times.
Public attention., which has beer
rivetcd for the past ten days upon thu
stirring incidents occurring in Greece,
has once more been turned upon Cub'
by the happening of fresh atrocities.
Weyler the Butcher, has again been al
his bloody work. Horrible details of 9
recent massacre committed by the
Spaniards come from the town ot
Sancti Spiritus.
Ten. miles from that place is, OF
rather was, Il small village containing
about $50 people. Some time ago the
Spanish commander at Sancti Spiritue
gave them permission to remain in
their houses and pursue the cultivation
of their fields. Weyler, on the occa,
| sion of a recent visit to the neighbOr.
hood, heard of this arrangement, and
IL was minated TO him that the Span.
Ish governor of the province had re,
ceived money from the villagers to
allow them to remain. Whereupon he
gave orders to II Of his guerilla cap
tains To order out his troop and remove
the people. The captain took the
order literally. At the head of SOC
men he descended at midnight upon
the sleeping village. The torch was
applied to all the houses at once, and
as the helpless inmates ran, shrieking,
from their burning homes, they were
shot down without mercy by the hend-
ish Spaniards. Neither age O sex
was spared by the heartless murderers,
vino threw many of the bleeding
corpses of the men, women and child
rem they mad ~massacred, back into the
flames of the burning houses.
This black crime is one of the long
train of almost Inconceivable brutali-
Ties that have been perpetrated week
after week and month after month by
the Spanish soldiery ever since Butcher
Weyler was sent into Cuba by the gov
of ellis Most Christian
Majesty" the king of Spain, to exter-
inmate the patriots who are fighting
for their liberties and their firesides.
Failing to vanquish the Cuban army in
the field, the Spanish commander has
been forcing the non-combatants into
villages, there to die of starvation and
sickness. This process being too slow
for his vengeance, Weyler appears
determined TO hasten it by midnight
murder and arson, as in the instance
related.
Our newspapers and public men are
fond of pratIng about the i~nexcusable
attitude of the European powers toward
the ~unspeakable Turk; allowing him
t massacre the Armenians by the tens
of thousands and to Overrun Christian
Greece with fire and sword
We have a combined Armenia and
Greece of our own, where a struggling,
starving band of Cubans are fighting
desperately for freedom against n foe
that slaughters and burns IN the night
the aged, the infirm, the wounded, the
women, and the children.
These horrors are going on and have
been going on for more than two years,
almost within sight of the southern
shores of a country that boasts itself
''the friend of the oppressed" ''the
cradle of freedom" and ''the citadel
of republican institutions"
The administrative and Legislative
branches of our national government
Just at present are devoted TO deVising
laws by which one class of citizens will
be authorized to rob all the rest. They
have no time to stop the butchery,
devastation and atrocities that are
turning Cuba into a blood stained, mn
wilderness of ruin and desc
lation.