San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-06-18
SAID TO BE WILLING TO SET
TIE THE MATTER BY PAY
ING HIS WIDOW $4,000.
This Weakness OF The Fast Decay.
ing Monarchy Is HOOtei At By
The Press Of That COun-
try And CanOvaS
Is Scored.
New York, June 1S.-A dispatch to
the World from Madrid says:

New York, June 1S.-A dispatch to
the World from Madrid says:
Premier Canovas is willing to pay
the widow of DR.. Ruiz $4,000 if the
United States government will not
press an official claim.
The announcement of this fact has
| aroused vehement public opposition
which the Madrid press is inflaming.
The newspapers blame the government
| for allowing DIR. Ruiz to be killed, but
condemn 1t most for acknowledging it.
| They say Spain is under the iron
| heels of the Yankee"
The impartial bitterly declares that
neither Cuba nor a hundred Cubas
would be worth the sad humiliation to
which, in the name of the nation, the
| Canovas cabinet subjects us with de-
plorable frequency. Recognition of
the claim puts Spain as nation be-
meath the Moors because this dentist
for whose death such an enormous sum
will have to be paid was not killed in
a Spanish prison by undisciplined ma
tives and semi-savages but by func-
tionaries of her Catholic Majesty's gov
| eminent"
/
truth about Cuba, already met by a
fearless attempt that the military sit
uation there is hopeless, is answered
now by the first definite admission of
cruelty. The Spanish officers are not
so much deplored at their being dis
covered, while it is their being ac
knowledeged that causes the anguish.
Senior Savinall the leader of a consid-
cradle section of the Spanish Conserv-
alive party hostile to Premier Cano-
| vas, strongly endorses the war policy
/ in Cuba.
Yet he has just said: IF it is true
that the Cuban war is one of conquest
in order to subdue a people united
against Spain, it constitutes an insolv-
able problem and the Sapnish should
have given up a year ago.
Such a statement would have caus-
ed the speaker to be publicly stoned
if made in the streets of Madrid but
| it was received with prolonged and
enthusiastic cheers from a high class
audience of Conservatives packing a
theatre from pit to roof, was warmly
commended by the Liberal and Inde-
pendent press and only perfunctorily
criticised by the Conservative organs.
The Liberal paper Ell Globo says:
"Weyler has already had II out of the
"A months in which he promised to fin
ish the war by the severe measures he
learned to use in the ten years strug-
gle.'
Weyler's martial trocha is called
horrible burial ditch for thous4Ras,"
its military efficiency is declared t. be
such that it was TRANQUILITY crossed ~
Maceo who only met his death by fal
ling into Cirujeda's hands. Weyler's
endeavor to surround Gomez is charac.
terized as a -four months flourish,
during which the rebel chief never left
small circle near the Jucro Jucaro
trocha" and the pacified provinces are
admitted to be so only in name. H.
garding the present plan to invade the
Eastern half of Cuba, Ell Globo quotes
from the report of General Selano,t that
during the rainy season two battalions
of 500 were reduced to 300 and 400 by
yellow fever, cholera and dyssentery,
adding: Daily marches-each costing
ten per cent, the disabled requiring
further loss of eight soldiers to each
stretcher-are made in pursuit OF an
invisible enemy never open to attack;
an enemy that is never surprised for
the country watches for it! an enemy
whose plan OF campaign is to decimate
the troops by the mortality in the
marshes and camps and the rigor OF
the climate"
Weyler's campaign generally Is
characterized as an expenditure of
many months and immense resources
in trying to destroy what In Cuba is
indestructible.