, 1897-04-05

New York, April SC. E. Ackers.
who has for two years beer the London
Times correspondent at Havana, has a
four-column letter in the World, in
which he declares that the worst hor-
rors Of Crete and Armenia are equaled
by Spanish barbarities in Cuba, and that
it is the moral duty OF the United States
to stop the war. He says:
"The end of the dry season is now at
hand and Spain has accomplished little
toward the pacification of Cuba. Certain
gains have most certainly fallen to the
Spaniards, the death of Maceo in Deem
Der and the capture of Ruiz Rivera a
few days ago being the most notable.
But at wha, cost has the campaign been
conducted?
1.-THE provinces of Pinar del Rio and
Havana and large portions OF Matanzas
and Santa Clara are one staring mass OF
cinders. Desolation and determination
meet the y at every point; ruin in the
present, famine, disease and death in the
future, are all that the Cubans can hope
for while Cuba remains under Spanish
rule.
Under these circumstances | do not
think hat the death of this or that
leader can bring victory any nearer to
the Spanish. One such man as Rivera is
lost TO the insurgents, and a numbered
spring up to take his place.
Moreover. it must not be forgotten
that this guerrilla warfare needs not any
military genius to conduct it. 1t is to a
very great extent every man for him
self and the devil take the hindmost.'
The only object in view is to keep the
country in such a condition OF unrest
as to make imperative the presence Of
an enormous army Of occupation. Small
parties OF so or 100 men scattered
throughout the island can do this more
effectually than u concentrated force
of 10000 or 10000 men, upon which the
Spanish cOmmander-in-chief could alone
mass great numbers, equipped with su-
perior armament.
General Weyler's policy Of extermin-
alton and devastation is nothing short
of the almost insane working of an ig-
norant and completely unbalanced mind.
To kill peaceful people on the techni-
cality that they have neglected to obey
tho prlar IN 10, .o thafr ho-,o, ,-l xoI,a
up their residence in some town where
no means of subsistence exists, is mex
cusable. To devastate the whole island
Of Cuba OF the plea that by SO doing
all supplies will be shut off from the
rebels only demonstrates the dense ig-
norance under which the Spanish gen.
eral is laboring.
1.-The rebels can get food enough to
live on for 10 years, il necessary, while
the cattle roaming wild in the districts
will supply the insurgents with beef for
at least a couple Of years to come.
AS for those foreign residents in Gu
ba, they have but n feeling with re-
gard to Weyler's method Of conducting
the military operations. They consider
Weyler and his actions as n reflection on
the worst barbarities OF the middle ages,
far more brutal than most OF the severe
means employed by the holy inquisition
to attain its ends.
And can they be blamed for passing
such judgment on this tiend incarnate
in human shape? Is there any precept
advocated by God or man that justifies
the wholesale slaughter of innocent
men. women and children on no other
pretext than that they refuse to leave
their homes and willingly submit to die
slowly Of starvation in such places as
Weyler may order.
1.-THE object OF Weyler's presence is to
exterminate the Cubans-a people COM
posed of some 1,2OO, 900 whites and $780,
900 negroes. or of mixed blood. To
kill every peaceful male i%nhabitant Of
the country is one OF Weyler's methods,
and to drive the women and children
into the towns to die Of hunger is an
other.
Not In n single case since Consul
General Lee assumed the duties Of the
Havana consulate have any prisoners
been accorded the privileges they are
to under the Spanish-American
treaty and protocols.
General Lee states that his efforts to
obtain the full treaty rights for Ameri-
can citizens are invariably thwarted by
emanating from Mr.. Olney
in Washington.
IF I may be permitted to give one
word Of advice to the people Of this
great country. It is to leave Armenia
and the Turks to be dealt with by Euro.
pean powers. and attend to their own
Armenia, that lies but a stones throw
from their own shores"
NO CORN FROM KANSAS.
Kansas City. April "A special to
theTimes from Topeka, Kan. says: The
Christian Herald relief committee tele-
graphed Governor Leedy from New
York today asking how much corn Kan
sas would give for the famine sufferers