The record-union., 1897-06-04
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A STORY FROM CUBA.

A horrible story comes from Cuba 1t
been cooped up in town starving,
begged leave recently to go to their
farms and get vegetables. The consent
was given, but Immediately soldiers
were dispatched ''to operate against the
enemy" which proved in this case to
be the unfortunate non-combatants.
They were shot down in their tracks.
Their bodies We're carted back to town,
carved up and the pieces stacked on a
table in a public street and labeled
Cuba Pig Meat for Sale. Meat of
American Pigs Expected Soon"
OF course this story may be pure fab
rication. We trust for the sake of a
common humanity that it is But there
are some reasons for believing that the
order of Weyler driving all country peo-
pie into towns and cities have resulted
in great suffering, much cruelty, in ac-
tuaI starvation and in scenes that shock
the sensibilities even in thought. There
is good reason for believing that the
Spanish soldiery has been and is mer-
CHESS; that it has been engaged in prac-
tees in Cuba that are abhorrent and
in violation of all the rules of civilized
warfare
The news is that Commissioner Cal
houn has completed his inquiries in the
island for the President, and has filed
his report in conjunction with the report
of Consul General Lee, and these we
may expect will soon be made public.
when it is probable that the exact facts
will be made known, so far as they are
ascertainable. For Commissioner CAL
houn is reported as saying that the
statements of the people of Cuba are SO
conflicting that it is all but impossible
to arrive at what one would accept as
a sound conclusion of fact.
Upon two things, however, Mr.. Cal
houn says he has made up his mind;
first, there is a war in Cuba and there
is no likelihood that it will be brought
to an end in the near future, and sec
ondly, no matter which of the belliger-
ents gains the victory, Cuba is devas-
tated, all but ruined and cannot for
many years recover from the injury it
has received. There are intimations in
York correspondent that his report will
declare that the Spanish have been
guilty of injustice, cruelty and violation
of the common humanities in prosecut-
ing the war; that the insurgents are a
scattered lot, but practically unconquer-
able and that they are thoroughly de-
voted to the cause of Cuban freedom.
1t is every day becoming more clear
of Spain. If in two years, after vast
expenditure of money, and with the use
of an army exceeding $50, 900 men, with
the best possible arms and full equip
ments and supplies, and with all the
best ports and chief cities in her posses
sion, Spain has been unable to so reduce
the rebellion as to enable an impartial
man like Mr.. Calhoun to reasonably
1OItSdSl AAlc cIOSG VI Int war, WHEN III
deed viii the insurgents be conquered
VIII Spain ever be able to subdue
these people and bend them to her will.
More than half Of the island is to-day
under insurgent control-though it is
admitted to be the least populous half
supplies, arms and ammunition con-
stantly go in to the insurgents, despite
the vigilance of the Spanish cruisers
sympathy for the rebels broadens and
intensifies in this country, and Cubans
are gaining in the sympathies of Euro
peans also. What hope then has Spain
of quelling a rebellion that has resulted
in devastating the island. reducing the
people to starvation. depriving them of
their homes and in putting their bodies
up in the market place in derision?
Assuredly it begins to look very much
as if the time has arrived for a humane
nation at whose threshold bleeding Cuba
lies to extend hand, and by recognition
of the belligerency of the rebels COM
mand Spain to cease her unusual meth
DDS and accord to the insurgents the