The times., 1897-06-21
AMERICAS AMAZING FOLLY.
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in strument OF torment and degradation
for this longsufferng people.


together SO long under the blighting curse
of the mother country. Spain has made
this unhappy island the very bastile of the
vicious When we read the declaration Of
our own independence, and the reasons
assigned for the separation OF tie American
colonies from England, they seem almost
tame and Insignificant as contrasted with
the story OF this Cuban manifesto, and it
is a wonder OF this ninetee nth century that
the Cuban race has not been utterly ex-
terminated; that there should be today in
that island any body of people hardy enough
to endure the strain of torture inflicted
upon them, and heroic enough to face
the frowning front of this terrible monster
of Spanish greed and cruelty. n
After appealing in vain for many
years to the most sacred considerations
that can move the sympathy and stir the
mind and heart of any mortal man, the
| Cuban patriots about the middleof this cur
| rent century. in utter desperation of peace
full remedy Of the evils they began
to commit the destiny ofi their cause to
| the abaitraInent of arms-took their case
| to the field OF battle in 1SaO-5L, in 1855,
| in 1863, in 1879, in 1 SS5, and on the Gath
of February, 1895, commenced the present
btTuESlt. Anu IL tatI u Ptclfc " e1o JuSei
fled before God and man in their re
bellion against the further domination of
| tyrany the most heartless, and cruelty
| the most hellish, that people is the million
| natives of that i'll fated isle.
IF any one would learn the ,iiabollcal
| infamy OF Spain, let him read the Book of
| Blood which gives the list of martyr
| patriots, sacrificed by that satanic power
| for no other crime than the love OF country
and fair play in the race OF life. 1t tells
| the story OF slaughter of all classes of men,
| from highest 10 lowest, and OF women and
| children outraged and butchered without
one trace of conjunction any more than
| OF SO many cattle and brute beasts
'.The proclamation OF General Count
| volmaseda, April 4, 1869, was so horrible
| that Gen. Grant, then President, through
his Secretary OF State, Hamilton Fish, said
| of IL. In the interest OF Christian ciyiliza-
! ton and common humanity, hope that
| this document is a forgery. IL it be indeed
| genuine, the President tthe greatest general
/ OF modern tirnesl instructs me, in the most
forcible manner, to protest against such
| mode Of warfarei' In the years SO, 80,
| 10, about 3 1000 captives were executed,
| to gay not hing of those slain in battle, and
with methods of indeserLbabie barbarity.
I'm ID letter under date of September %,
1869, one Pedro Pardon, writing TO his
| father, says: We do not leave creature
| alive where we pass, let 1t be man or
animal If we find COWS we kill them; lf
! nc lses, ditto; Ii hogs, ditto; men, women or
| Children, ditto AS to houses, We burn
| item. SO every one receives his due the
mer in balls, the animals in bayonets-the
island viii remain a desert
And what are the liberties which Spain
| has conferred on the Cubansl
| II There Is no freedom OF locornotion.
| None may venture out of his house without
| license from the government, which costs
annually from 20 cents to $50. II he does
| he is arrested. Even beggars are not .X-
cmpt.
- There is no personal security. In the
midst OF profound peace, without any
process Of law, they MAJ be arrested, inn
prisoned on deported.
80. There is no freedom of thought or
expression. The press Is nluzzled, or made
wholly subservient to the dictates OF the
| tyrant
~ There is DO right to hold public
meetings, nor even an assembly at a pri-
yat, iouse, without license and the pres
ence of a spaniaId spy.
| 80. The Cubans have no right to ele.::
! those who govern them. All the 'officials
are Spaniards, appointed by Spain.
'6. The Cubans have neither vote mol
| voice In the matter OF taxation, nor i n the
| expenditure of revenue
| ~. They are taxed every year some
$50, 600, most of which is stolen
hy the officials, and not penny goes TO
| internal improvements or, even any sani-
| tary measure for the health of the people.
| The filth at Havana is a constant menace
| IKE fountain OF yellow fever, destruc
tive TO all comers.
"S Gigantic frauds and swindles are
| continued, and no Spanish delinquent i:
ever punished
"SuCh are the liberties which Spain
| provides for the Cuhans,
Now as to the Cuban army. All Span
iards have always labored TO make the i'm
| preston on the outside world that the
| insurgents are nothing but conglomerate
mass Of bandits, assassins, Ignorant ne
groes and foreign adventurers,' while the
| fact is that the whole Cuban population
| are against the terrible misrule OF Spain
OF course, there are some actuate! by
"
our war OF Revolution. But the Cuban
army OF patriots is organized in five corps,
disposed in different sections of the island
numbering in all from 10000 to 10000
men. In the present two years conflict
Spain has sent against them an army of
100000 men, and in her military rule in
Cuba for the last fifty years she has as
signed nearly half a million of her soldiery
to suppress the Cuban outbreaks. Most ot
these are conscripts from the young men
OF the Peninsula, sent over to eXterminate
the patriots, while an army of sc, 900 vet
| Grams Is Kept at home to safeguard the
| Spanish throne.
"Spain's treatment of her prisoners is
caus' enough in itself for the strong arm
of Intervention No power in our day
should be allowed to indulge in suct
savagery, if there IS any means to prevent
1t. An attempt is made to make the world
believe that the Cubans re incapable of
self government. What an irony there is
in this. Spanish civilization, as exb ibitetl
in Cuba, is a travesty on all ideas of
civilization, and as for self government,
If the Cubans had today no better civil
polity than that of a herd of swine t
would be vast Improvement over theil
present condition, as they are denied
almost every privilege which it is The
object of human government to guarantee,
and there is no form of injustice and out.
rage which is not inflicted upon them.
"At the close Of the years struggle
in 1879 the patriots capitulated upon as
surances OF reform by the Spanish gov
ernment. But those promises were made
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