Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1897-06-10
PITIFUL PLEA FROM CUBA.
STARVING PACIFICoS AP-
PEAL TO AMERICA FOR
SUCCOR.
Heartrending Tale of DestitutiOn
and Death as a Result of
Welyer's Inhuman War
fare.

NEW YORK, June IA special to
the Herald from Havana says: A
strange appeal on behalf of the starv-
ing and dying reconcentrados in Ma
tanZas, who excited pity in the hearts
of General Lee and Mr.. Calhoun, has
been made to the people of the
United States.
Since the United States govern
ment has begun measures for the re-
lief of its citizens in Matanzas the
desperate plight of the Cuba recon-
centrados there has resulted in petit
tion signed by a hundred of them in
which they beg that they may be in
cluded in the charity.
The petition is headed IAN Appeal to the
United States" 1t is now on its way TO
Washington. The principal part follows:
"tor some time past we have been con-
templating the idea of our appealing to your
charitable feelings for relief for those of
our people who are bitterly suffering the
consequences of a most, inhuman way of
waging war. The fear, however, that our
representations might be resolved as pas
aionate and exaggerated has restrained US
from undertaking the task, but since Gen.
Lee, Commissioner Calhoun, his secretary.
Mr.. Fishoack and Mr.. Alexander Brice, the
American consul at this place, have seen with
their own eyes the misery existing here, ant
we do not hesitate any longer to speak to
You.
First and foremost, let II be said that in
unhappy Cuba we can not do anything to
help our suffering countrymen. The pacifi
cos that have huddled in our city would be
looked upon as traitors for so doing, and as
such we would be summariiy dealt
with. We must do nothing that can in any
way interfere with Gen. Weyler's policy OF
extermination..
SCENES oE HORROR.
"We have to witness, day after day scenes
of horror which no language can describe
aud yet no voice can be lifted to protest
against them. To Spain we can not apply
for succor. She is we'll acquainted with the
present condition of affairs in Cuba, and SO
far not farthing has come to rs from her,
and yet we have sent her our money freely
whenever the Spanish people have been in
want and distress.
But what are we to expect from Spain
when her worthy representative here, Gen
Weyler, Indifferent, cold and deaf to oul
misery, coolly says that his mission in Cubs
Is not to look after the starving population
but simply to end the war according to his
| own notione.
"He has converted into deserts, section;
of country where abundance once reigned,
thousands of happy towns have been looted
and burned down by a savage soldiery.
Upwards of ten thousand of the victims
of savage system of warfare have been crowd
| ed into Matanzas without providing fol
their most natural wants; and after the!
have been compelled to abandon all they had
in the world, they are to be seen iu crowds
from early in the day until late at night i'm
lploring charity,
LAS for ns,we can not do our work openly
We have to bog for feeding the hungry and
clothing the naked, ooncealing ourselves
and our names as if we were doing some
thing wrong, and we, therefore, suggest thai
if any relief is to come, it should be entrust
ed to the American consuls for distribution
and we would also suggest that the sending
out of help in the way of provisions or cloth
ing has its Inconvenience, as it might give
the officials an opportunity to interfere anG
thwart the object in view.
"Very respectfully.
"ONE HUNDRED CITIZENS OF MA
TANZAS."