Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-04-15

lsh troops. The raising OF provisions OF
all kinds was interdicted. Fields were
laid waste. dwellings unroofed and fired,
mills destroyed, and, in short, everything
that couiu desolate the land and render it
unfit for human habitation or support
was commanded by one or the other con-
tending parties and executed by all the
powers at their disposal.
BY the time the present administration
took office a year ago, concentrations
so called-had been effective over the bet
ter part of four central and western prov
inces. Santa Clara. Matanzas. Havana
and Pinar del Rio. The agricultural pop
~ulation, to the estimated number of 3OO,-
600 or more, was herded within the towns
and their immediate vicinity, deprived of
all means of support, rendered destitute
Of shelter. left poorly clad and exposed
to the most unsatisfactory conditions.
suferInss of Recommendations.
AS the scarcity of food increased with
the devastation Of the depeopled areas of
production, destitution and want became
misery and starvation. Month by month
the death rate increased in alarming ra-
ito, and by March, 1898, according to con-
sentative estimates from official Spanish
sources, the mortality among the recon-
centrados from starvation and the dis
eases thereto Incident exceeded so per
centum of the total number. No practical
relief was accorded to the destitute. Tho
overburdened towns, already suffering
from the general dearth, could give no
ana. So-called zones Of cultivation, estab-
llshed within the immediate area of effect
i've military control. about the cities and
fortified camps. proved ilusory as n rem
edy for the suffering Tho urfortu,oIas
being for the most nov. roman 49, arn
dror ,rt.k 90 o"e anu CHI
FoobIo, -. aetu ~ ncip'eSS men, en-
leeoleu by disease and hunger, could not
have titled the soil without tools, seeds
or shelter, for their own support or for
the supply of the cities
ReconcentrotIor odontoa
INV - "l0psVu "N'"euig us d
49, ,n.a--' - Nu' oi l"o resources Oh
the insurgents. worked its predestined re-
S"lu III my message OF last
+, 1IH II was not cVlilAea warfare;
- Niiha''oh ana the only peace
It Cou'u oeset was that OF the wilderness
"''u the grave
Progress of the War,
Meanwhile the military situation IN ~
island has undergone a noIiaaotio ~ the
The extraordinarv activit,, ~ otmse'
terlzed tho eanoni "curiss NAT chafac-
the insurgents invaded even the bi,hdrtn ,
unframed fields of Pinar del Rio ana a
ried havoc and destitmtion nm w ~ h'u al !
of the city of Havana itself bnd roIo ""l5 l
into a logged struggle in the central "a ,
eastern provinces. The Snarisb orn,, n l
gained a measure of control in pIrar A., l
Rio and parts of Havana, but nrdar ~ {
existing conditions of thn rural nor, 80 |
without immediate Improvement ~ thair !
productive situation. Even Tins nartioi- !
ly restricted the ravolntiont,,n - Pattlai- l.
own. and their submission. nrt fornn !,
by Spain as the essential and cole 1T 80 1
of peace, seemed as far distant os 1a thS
outset. In this state of affairs NV odo
ministratlon found itself confronted with
the grave problem of its duty Nv 80
sage of last December reviewed the sit-
uation and detailed the stems taken r,ith q,
a view of relieving the acuteneas ana l
the way to some form ~ ham ' e
orable settlement. " u "oH- {
sarasto,s Win p., II
The assassination of tho nrtr,s t
Canovas, led to a change NJ gnrann o
ment In Spain. The former odn,Iristrn f
ton, which pledged subi,Ipo tior rt,bo~. t
concession, gave Mace IN ,bot 90 ues a
liberal party. comm,tted low W
to a policy OF reform inyaI,fSS, u. "unance 1,
principle of homo r,Ia Gov LIS II wluer :,
Rico. N"" wv forto "
The oyertures op t,ts S
through us now enwo socetnnneh' Hade a
ford, and lokInp to an ~ =, oSn"l Mood- t
amelioration Of tbn nnm5 electlVe ii
Island, althourh nor oo rona.lioh OF the n
cent Of admit NV atIep'eu 10 the eX- -
were mot hy ossmnan" II any shape u
n an adv Mood ne wa. nome RUE Il
1ffered tn Cubo Hr u,it Stouau og lorthWlth l
war IN end and %tt'ou. waiting Tor the o
,Ss ebovIiJ ~ tHat more humane meth 3,
lnct of bostiittiCS prevail IN the con- :.
IncidanfaiIv w,ith .bo y
now go,orn ~ 'nese ueclaratlons the Il
'on,r 800 heA OF SPAN continued and Il
ts nroS IN polcy nIready begun by n
- lANNNNISSbI gl teStltNlnE Friendly re-