Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-11-24

N@- lots to any paper by me or any one for me for the support of the Capi- tol bill now pending in Congress and l am positive that Mr. Sherman will do the same.
 "M. F. CoLLISs." 
 A Question or the Hour.
 MR. EDIroR: In an editorial in its daily issue of the 18th instant-the the title of which is "A Woman's Cry,"- the St. Louis Republic quotes letter written by the Mother Su- perior of the Convent of the Sacred Heart, in Havana, as follows;
 Captain General Weyler's plan was to starve as many as he could, and thus do away entirely with the Cuban race. He has succeeded in killing thus hundreds of thousands, without exsggerstion, by the con- pulsory law of concentration. Lately some of our pupils discovered 8 place caliDd Los Poses which meahS the ditches, because 1t is a 8 low an1 narshy place. There over a thousand women, with children of both sexes, are living abandoned, unknown and starving. Many are perfectly naked. All are heaped up pell nell. They have been there nearly two months. or their mum Der fifteen to twenty or thirty die daily. At night there is no light, and in the morning the corpses and living are found together. Do you understand Can you imagine any thing worsei'
 Now, MT. Editor, the above extract must be taken ss true and reliable for two good and sufficient reasons first. because its author belongs to that class of earthly angels who for many scenturies have blessed man. kind-especially its suffering and ueedy-with the meekest but lovliesl and most exalted and effectual ex- hibitions of womanly virtues and Christian charities; and to every one of whom some prophet of old might rise and truthfully say: "A minister ing angel, thou" Secondly. because "The St. Louis Republic" in whose recent editorial the extract is found, is one Of the greatest and most reliable metropolitan newspapers of the country, with the glory of about a hundred years of successful pub hcation gliding its career.
 The picture then Is truthful one; but, my Godl what grim and hor- rible onel The living, the dying, the dead, 'all heaped up, pell nell. But worse still, "at night there is no light" says this Grand Mother Superior she might have added save the light of immortal beauty that silently covers the faces of un- conscious infancy, and starving and dying childhood and motherhood. If theimmortal Dante had witnessed this picture, he would have had one more awful in his realistic terror than that fearful picture his wizard fancy painted of his Seventh Hell Over this scene the troubled visions of patriotism and liberty hover and swell the breast of dreaming sorrow. In this Walphyrgis dance of Spain's political witches and military 6ends, DO one who loves liberty or rever- ences woman, may join; but as the visions rise, there may be seen lim- nered upon the sombre skies the glimmering swords of the brave Gomez. Castillo, Maceo, Sanchez, Cerrillo, Rodriguez; while hundreds, aye thousands, stand with guns in their hands responsive to hberty's call. No wonder the intrepid heroine, Sonora Pilota, commands asa leads a company of Cuban soldiers. No wonder the beautiful Senorita Cis- neros, imprisoned for nobly defend ing Ter virtue and honor, like the caged bird striking its wings against the wires, beat the bars of her prison, aud cried for liberty. No wonder that ninety per cent of American sentiment, including men, women and reasoning children, IS in favor of Cuban liberty. Spain talks about autonomy for Cuba. This is the wolf coming to the Queen of the Antilles in sheep's clothing. Not while old Gomez and his com patriots swords gleam near the flashing of the guns, will such Siren songs allure. Away then with this policy of delusion and delay. A people who, amidst such distressing disadvantages, have for so many long and weary months and years, withstood the onslaught of Spsin's best soldiers and her ablest-and, we might truthfully add, her most brutal and fiendish commanders, OUGHT TO BE FREE; especially from a mother country that has visited upon the beautiful isle such amazing outrages and barbarous cruelties and dishonors.
 If the warfare which Spain has waged in Cuba, is Co be regarded as civilized warfare at the close of the Nineteenth century, Cod help the oppressed upon whom civilized war fare may be waged at the close of the Nineteenth century. If it is not civilized warfare, then it is the imperative duty of this republic, at once, to interfere, and, if necessary, assist Cuba to gain her freedom. By the principles of the Monroe Monroe doctrine, and by nature, Cuba is allied to this government anyway. JAMES u. WRIGHT.