New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-06-02
GENERAL WEYLER'S DECREE
MILITARY OPERATIONS TO BEGIN IN
EASTERN CUBA.
1. VIOLENT ATTACK ON THE UNITED STATES DY
HAVANA ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
or PAPER MONEY IN THE ISLAND

OF PAPER MONEY IN THE ISLAND
Havana June IA decree issued by Captain
General weyler, dated Sancti Spiritus, May 20
vos ruhI,sbed here to-day. He announces the
annroaching commencement of military opera
lions In the eastern part of Cuba. N1d orders
the enforcement of me provisions of his decree
Of January 30 in the provinces of Puerto Prin-
cine and Santiago de Cuba. the organization or
cultivation zones the closing Of stores In un-
fortified towns, the concentration OF the country
people and the destruction of all resources
which are undefended, as was done In the other
provinces.
The Capts in General gives the people of those
two provinces one month III which to comply
with the terms Of the decree the time to begin
or the date of the publication OF the decree in
the various districts Of those provinces,
The flooding Of river has destroyed the big
railroad bridge at Los Palacios. Province OF
Pinar del Rio. delaying railroad communication
In tina: part OF the Island
In its last issue "E! Concrete" the organ of
the retail grocers. violently attacks the United
States. II says in part:
1T has become necessary to prove to the
United States that Spain needs neither their
benevolence nor their commseration. Those
who ask for a policy of clemency and pardon for
men who have desolated the country with torch
and dynamite must be convinced that against
such a policy all true Spanlards will become
more and more resolute.
These Yankees are never satisfied. They are
far more guilty of hardness of heart (obduracion)
than the Cubans themselves. After our denying
atrocities invented by the American press, AFTER
our releasing various convicts charged with
high treason, to demonstrate TO the American
people the generosity which can look upon such
people as amenable to the laws of civilized war
fare-after all this. the Americans still believe
these fakes put up against us. and believe that
we fear them.
at is necessary to prove to the Americans
that we care nothing for the insulting and ag-
gressive stand taken by the American Senate.
A country where the old have less judgment
than the young is degenerate country, a coun-
try OF premature civilization which VIII rt be-
fore ii ripens Let tell them or. better stli'
let us prove 10 them. that we can laugh al lhelr
braCCaGOCio.
United States Let us reciprocate. There pi-
rates are overlooked; let us do the same mere.
There are not wanting brave. audacious mari
ners who would patrol Americas seas and oc-
casionally do what they pleased The Ameri-
cans would file their claims Our courts would
sentence the offenders to lO-cent fines ana
a three hours imprisonment. or release them I'M
der a fictitious bond.
Really. the airs put on by these Americans
require energetic action on the part OF the SPAN
ish people At the very moment when the revo-
luton is almost suppressed they appear again
with their be ligerency declaration. we care
nothing for IT, They can go ahead on this line
If they please; il will only more clearly denne
the situation, and our heroic navy may yet
prove what it can do with our enemies. Let 1t
be demonstrated. aside from diplomatic meth
DDS that the Spanish people despise the 1ingoes
of the United States. and know how 10 SPIT III
their faces one hundred times.
The plague of beri-beri continues to raVage the
Province of Santiago de Cuba Its rapid spread
IS due to the abandonment Of the sick who have
been intrusted to the care of the municipal doc
tors and To the great difficulty In obtaining
medicine from the city authorities. IhcFe are
municipal doctors who inhumanly alloW nun
dreds of the poor to die without offering them the
slightest assistance. -
Paper money continues to depreciate' q cen u
tine now s. 30 in Spanish gold brings sl' Oh III
paper. ,. ,, s.at,a
Tho street car and stage drivers ana stapIe
hands Of this city have gone on strike OWING ~
the failure Of the companies TO comply WIN lhelr
PROMISES to increase the wages or thelr en-,
moves as a result Of the fall In the value OF Ddhk
bille