The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1898-03-31

eminent was waging q war OF exter
mination instead of wax of honor,
yet such is an absolute fact 4 visit
was paid TO the erphanage wkich is
now under the care of Miss Clara
Barton. 1t contains now about fifty
children. almost every one Of whom
is victim of starvation. DR.. Les
ser, one of Miss Barton's assistants,
has had experience in the Armenian
and Indian famine, but he declares
that the famine in Cuba is worse
than that in Armenia and pictures
he drew of the terrible suffering aud
starvation in the island more than
confirm all that has bsen written
upon the subject.
A detail story of q visit to Los
Foeas, the place where the reconcen-
trados daily assemble to get food,
was also given. A few weeks ago,
when Miss Barton discovered the
place, where were 645 people lying
on the floors, many of them entirely
nude and all of them suffering the
pangs of starvation. Much has been
done by the Red Cross Society to al
lsviate the condition of those who
still remain, but scores of men, won
en- and children are yet there. gaunt
and honey, almost as a skeleton,
many of them covered with sores
directly traceable to insufficient food.
"What a chapter of horrors and
death is that"
DANTEs HE'LL WAS NO WORSE.
"And still the tragedy goes on.
How much longer it shall continue
largely depends upon the forbear-
ance of a great people, who through
suffering and sorrow achieved their
own independence and whose symp-
athies have always gone out to the
oppressed of all nations Of the
world"
A vivid picture was then drawn
by Mr.. Gallinger of a trip to the
city of Matanzss. All along the
route were wretched people in rags,
but not until the city was reached
was the full extent of the suffering
realized. 'It occurred to me as I
Looked upon the scenes of suffering
and horrors that the reconcentrados
might well adopted the words of
Dante. Who enters here leaves hope
behind when they were driven from
the fields and herded like cattle in
the cities and towns OF this fertile
land. The truth is that Weyler de-
vised a scheme of human suffering
and sorrow that put Dante's Infer
no to the shade and converted a
coutented, prosperous people iato
herd of suffering, starving unfor-
tunatss.
"Matanzss is literally q place of
beggary and death. Never before
did my eyes behold such suffering
and never again do expect to see
such havoc wrought through q cruel
an inhuman decree A visit to the
Mantapza hospital revealed an even
more shocking condition than the
streets. Members of the Red Cross
Society who had visited one of the
hospitals two weeks before were al
most overcome upon discovering
that nearly every one of the inmates
at that slime had since died. There
poverty, sorrew and suffering were
depicted in their worst forms; child
rem, gaunt in face, but with ABIDE
men and limbs terribly swollen,
women in the last stage of emacia-
ton and men that were rapidly
drifting to death.
"If there was food in these hospi-
sals, said Mr.. Gallinger, I did not
discover it, neither were there signs
Of medicine of proper nourishing
md care"
The Governor Of Matanzss in.
formed Mr.. Gallinger that the FIRST
lay he occupied the palace fifteen
persons had died in tbs court yard.
BE said further that in the city zoe
had died in November; 1900 in De
,ember; 700 in January, and 500 in
February. The death rate was de