Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-06-02
1BLEGRAPHIC.
ENERGETIC ACTION
4 HaYana NsWspapsr Attacks the
United States.
IT ADVOCATES SPANISH PIRACY
And Suggests the ACCESSIBILITY OF Spit
ting In the Faces Of Ameri'
can JingOes.

HAVANA, June 1.-(Via Key West,
FIs.,-In Its lar. issue Eel Commercio,
the organlof the retaillgrocsrs, attacks
the u uited States. 1t says in part:
"It has become necessary to prove to
the United States that Spain needs
neither their benevolenc nor their
COMMUNICATION. Those who ask I a
nolioy Of clemency and pardon for men
who have desolatsd the country with
torch AMI dynamite must be convinced
That against such = policy all true
Standards will become more AID more
resolute.
"These Yankees are never satisfied.
They are far more guilty OF hardness
Of heart than the Cubans themselves.
After our denying atrocities invented
by the American press; after our re-
leasing various convlcts charged with
bieh treason to demonstrate TO the
American people the generosity when
can look upon such people M amensole
to the laws OF civilized warfafe; ater
oil this the Americans still believe
these fakes put up against US ana De-
lleve that we fear them.
"It 10 necessary TO prove TO the
American that we care nothing iof
the insult and the aggressive stand
taken by the American Senate. a
country where the old have less judy
meut than the young 10 degenerate
country, country OF premature
o,yilizatiop. which will rot before II
ripens. Let US tell them, or stili
l~s In
can laugh at their braggsdocio.
UForeipne cannot hold property In
the United States. Let US reciprocatr.
The pirates are overlooked; let us do
the same here. There are not want
ing audacious, brave mariners who
would patrol America's seas and COCA,
pionally do what they pleased. Toe
Americans would fight their claims.
Oar courts would sentence tho offend.
ers 10 tent cen fineiand three. lours'
imprisonment, or release them under
fictitious bond.
"Renlly, tne airs put on by these
Americans require energetic action on
the part Of the Spanish people. AT
the very momen. when the re-
volution In almost suppressed, th ey
appear again with their belli-
perepcy declaration. We care
nothing for 1t. They can GO ahead
on this line II they p!eass; II will only
more clearly define the situation, and
our heroic navy may yet prove what
1t can do with our enemies. Let - be
demonstrated, aside frlm diplomatic
methods, that the Spanish people
uespiss the iingoes OF the United States
and know how to spit In their faces
one hundred times."
wEYLER's NEW DECREE.
HAVANA, June LA decree issued
by Captain General Weyler, dated
Sapcu 5piritue, May 9th, was pub
Iished here today. He announces the
approaching commencement OF mill.
tary operations in the eastern part oil
the island OF Cuba, and orders the en-.
forcement OF the decree OF January In
the provinces of Principe and Santa
Clara, the organization OF cultivation
zones, the closing OF stores In unforti.
fled towns, aud the concentration oil
the country peole and the destruction
Of all resourcee which are undeienued,
as was done In the other provinces.
The captain general gives the people OF
those two provinces one month in
which to comply with the terms OF the
decree,