The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-03-25
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/ revolutionists In consideration of tribute
! paid
Under the inhuman policy OF General
| Weyler not less than 400, 600 self -supporl-
| ing, simple. peaceful, deienseless country
! folk were driven from their homes IN the
! agriculture portions of the Spanish prov
| inces to the cities and imprisoned upon the
! barren waste outside the residence por-
| tons OF those cities and within the lines
of entrenchment established a little way
! beyond Their humble homes were burned.
| their fields laid waste, their implements OF
husbandry destroyed, the livestock and food
supplies contiscated. Most Of them are
| women and children. Slow starvation was
| their inevtabls fate a conservative estt-
| mate indicates that 100000 OF these people
have already persisted from starvation.
THE government of Spain has never con
! triblte one dollar to house. shelter. feed
or provide medical aid for their own citi-
| zens. Such a spectacle exceeds the scenes
of the inferno, as painted by Dante. Ther4
has been no anlelioratlon OF the suffering
except through charity of the United States.
There has been no diminution in the death
rate among those reconcentrados except as
| the death supply is constantly diminishing.
There is no relief aud no hope except
through the continued charity of the Amer
lean people. until peace has been fully re-
stored In the island.
Spain can not put an end to the exist
ing conditions. She can not conquer the
insurgC mis-. She can not re-estaniish nee
sovereignty over any considerable portion
of the island The insurgents, while I'M
able to maintain themselves, can not drive
the Spanish army from the fortified sea
coast towns The situation then Is not
war as we understand It, but chaos OF
devastation and depopuating of underlined
duration. whose end no man can see
In detailing the incidents and reciting
| hiG
, Mr.. Thurston said he had no desire TO
deal in horrors.
III I had my way" said he, 81 would
shield the American public even from the
: Photographic reproductions Of the awful
scenes that viewed in all their original
ghastliness,
or the 225. 900 soldiers Spain had sent 10
Cuba less than $4,000 were now available
e for duty. The remainder are dead, SICK
/ In hospitais or returned to Spain incapac-
Y ,tated. II Is currently reported that ShUOt
4 are now sick In the hospitals on the island
The army was III poor condition ana unuei
a lax discipline. att. A.,
). II do not believe, sald me- i1ae ~
J. entire Spanish army in Cuba could stan'
J. an engagement in the open field agains
: On mon we'll disciplined American soldiers
ar tho Spanish soldiers, he said that lhey
: n, all uetnle on earth. would most eiaai'
$ welcome anything that would enable thel
: 70 return to their homes the pictures
+. tho American newspapers OF the star, !,
: reconcentrados are true lhey can az y y
s dunlicated by the thousands. never saw
l, and nIcase Cod may never again see,
d ann,orable a sight as the reconcentrado
No suburbs of Matanzas. ] can hsVH
so,,nY m NV dying day the hopeless Al
I puish in their despairing eyes. Hill ,
X ohout their little bark nuts tney rus
l. their voice of appear 10 VS. Iva
6 went among them. .,d sre,,
q somishing. Their only appeal comes ~
ne tha;r sad eyes, through which one iook
| tbroupb an open window INTO thei
'e agonizng sous. , has done n
y thew possbly could do for the recopesn
% . .nes h,,t IL was too true that man
v uauos os neop,e who are residing in IN
I sn,,ses scarcely knew where their o"
| ,,axt meal was TO come from. inc gsN
20 a'.ro- was willing that the reNopcertih +"
MUD ronass the trocha 10 their noh
TO M great many were physically nnap +,
On ~ AZ so. Their fate is slow dea'n
ly starvation .,r Thur nc
re ,ue LID Ella zee no end to this condition
a .esa,rs ard could suggest no RELIEF exec
r. through the United states; - ~, a,
on ..Tha government OF Spain has not
he ted one dollar to save tnese pc
he nie They are now being attenoeu. nv :,
OF and and aaminstered to by the charity Q, 8 8
RI. sn% states. Think of the spectacle.
ad are feedirg these citizens OF saa,h' We :
Nursing the sick; We are saving snsn :,
ed nan he saved and vet there are mo- ~,
OIL sill, saw It is not right for US 70 ss"' - .
hnt that we must keep hands OH, 2
ise No, tha time has come wneh
ost e,sht n 90 in with the food .,,n
ID ~ shan refer TO these hofr'o r., ~, y,
ct M further. They are there. moa y,
Ids NO, 7 have seen them They WIN i 80,
led IN nv mind forever--and tnis IN s'n "
Inc the twentieth century. Christ ale a :.
ps. wears ago. and Spain Is a chrisu Z, M
Pc ,,nn. she has set up more crosses ~ ~, ~
&C. Lands beneath more skies aud unuer -. ~
M, has butehered more people man az nas''
ne "En,ope may tolerate her exis,sner
ied onr as the people OF the old wora W,
o.. Cod grant that before anotner .p sn a..
IVY ,nnrn;ng the last vestias OF spnr,
"a txranny and oppression Will nave s""'s'
~ s,an, he western hemisphere
o. piscns,lng the remedy whicl sno mo !,
-. anni,ed 10 The situation. MT Inhrs'ou
~ II counselled silence ana nc -
lax from this floor when me pls nnsr me
he Nation seemed at white heat ove' 'As