The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-02
sPANIARDs IN CUBA.
They Pledge Their Lives to the Moth
err COuntry-"The Preaching Devil"

They Pledge Their Lives to the Moth
er COuntry-'The Preaching Devil"
HAVANA, April 1.-Captain General
Blanco last night called the colonels of the
volunteer regiments to the palace ard con-
suited with them. He impressed upon the
officers the necessity for greater union
than ever in these troubled tines and rec
commended that the highest discipline be
maintained and that more patriotism be
shown. 1t is said the captain generals
views were agreed to with enthusiasm, and
that the officers pledged to Spain their
lives, fortunes and sacred honor" after
which they suggested that the captain gem
eral should notify the merchants and 9TH
ers of his desire that they should allow their
clerks and other employees to join the vol
unteers. 1t was reported last night that
the other military commanders had been
called in council by the captain general.
This, however, was positively denied at the
palace, but the rumor spread TO such an ex-
tent that it grew into the statement that
war had been declared, which naturally
added to the feeling manifested among the
crowds in Central Park, where the band
played. The excitement was soon allayed
by men of prudence, who assured all in
quirers that war had not been declared. In
alarming report there was no violence re-
ported and the police were able to main
tain order without difficulty.
La Union. under the headline, 1.-The
Preaching Devil" says: Americans have,
within the last one hundred years extcr-
minated more people than all the nations
together since the beginning of the Chris
tian era. What became of 100000 Indians?
America completed the destruction COM
menced by the English, and there are now
only remaining few thousands. Logan
was right when he said Americans were so
cruel as to murder women and children in
cold blood. Americans never had even a
pretext, because the Indians were always
Submissive. Whole families, even whole
tribes, have disappeared to give way to
Yankee civilization. Americans think the
only good Indian is dead Indian. What
about negroes? Lynch law and bull dogs
have been agents of civilization. We shall
say nothing of Texas, California and other
colonies, where the primitive is rapidly dis
appearing Even Cuban determination is
due to the Yankees, because they have en-
ccuraged and aided the rebels, hypocriticaI-
ly leading them TO their own annihilation.
in recapitulation, the Yankee is the devil in
the pulpit. He sees a mote in his neigh
boris eye, but not the beam in his own"
The Union Constitutional says adtorially
this evening: THE necessity for concentra-
ton having disappeared, Captain General
Blanco's decree properly does away with it.
1t says the government will provide for the
reooncentrddos in a proper manner and the
lying charity of the United States is not
needed"
The Diario de la Marina lauds the captain
generals decree saying: ''The government
shows disposition to relieve the sufferings
caused by the wal; but it must work pa
tiently and long, owing to the fact that the
war Itself causes more difficulties. and time
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