The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-04-12

llilS uoy lOIlu Supd WILL CoASiuSi self bound by a closer tie in the affec- | tion it bears for the noble American masnanimity.
 However true and minute may be the report that you have heard, never will we be able to form just concep- I tion of all the bloodshed, the misery, ! the strife and the sorrow caused to the afflicted Cubans to obtain their inde- pendence, and how the despotic spirit | of Spain, irritated to the last degree | before the most just of all rebellions, 1 has revelled in the most implacable | destruction of lives and property l The nation which at one time ! adopted the inquisition and invented it's tortures lastly conceived the con l centration scheme, the most horrible of all means to martyrize and then to annihilate an entire people, and if 1t has stopped in the path of destruction it is due in great measure to the cry | of indignation which the knowledge Of | such horrors unanimously drew from the states over which you govern. | The people who are saved from ex- l tinction and whose evils your gifts as- 1 suage are the people for whose liberty we daily shed our blood on the fields 1 of battle; the country whose 1mpor- l tance we now conquer at the point or the sword for them is also for your blood of our blood and flesh of our | flesh, we must rejoice with them ln | their joys as we weep and sympathize with them in their sorrows and gr1ets. I am so deeply moved at the wave ot 1 compassion which agitates your noble country that I accede to the request of 1 the patriots I command to appear be- | fore you and report to your great na- tion as the exponent of our immense gratitude. I have, therefore, sir, to dis charge a conscious duty by setting forth again, which l beg you will transmit to the knowledge of the persons to whom IS recommended the philanthropic mission of succoring the unhappy, destitute | Cubans and in order that ignorance ot certain antecedents may not deprive many needy ones of the enjoyment of that noble American charity. The | revolution as absolute matter of the country, has never prescribed any citi- | zen whatever his nationality, from l earning, from living, and it has hap l pened that as soon as the barbarous 1 concentration degree was derogated in | numerable families have left and still leave the city for the fields, irnpelled by hunger to wrest from the faithful Cuban vegetation the means of reiiev- ing the most pressing needs of life. | Those unhappy beings ignore the fact that the Spaniards by steel and pri- 1 vation have shrouded their hearths in mourning, devastated by the bullet and the torch. Wherefore being in the same circumstances these unfortunates have the same moral right to participate in the relief furnished to needy Cubans by your generous people. Many a widow, many mother, many an or phan do we meet in our way who ask of us succor that we are not able to give but most sparingly, and therefore upon pointing out to them the charity awakened in their behalf in your no
 ble nation, desire to honor myself by offering my services to cooperate in the noble work with all the power and
 means within the reach of the forces I command.
 I am sir, with the most distinguished consideration. (Signed)
 M Gomez.
 On March l General Lee reported l
 and clothing to the destitute is pro-
 ceeding satisfactorily. The week. he says, has been organized and systema-
 tized under the supervision and direc-
 tion of Miss Clara Barton, professor of
 the Red Cross society and her exper-
 fenced assistants.
 "Americans Must Feed You"
 March IA he enclosed a letter from Consul Barker of Sagua, who requests
 him to transmit the following letter,
 which is addressed to him General Lee):
 Dear Sir--I will thank you to com municate to the department as soon as possible the fact that the military com-
 mander and other military officers pos
 itively refuse to allow the reconcentra- dos to whom I am issuing food in it's
 raw state, to procure fuel with which
 to cook the food: in addition they pro- hibited this class of people q am only giving food to about one-fifth of the destitute, the authorities have quit altogether) from gathering vegetables cultivated within the protection of the forts, telling them the Americans pro- pose to feed you and to the Ameri- cans you must look. Signed:
 WALTER BARKER, Consul. On March r General Lee informs the department that the governor-general by decree March prorogued in all parts to March 31, 1889, the decree of the general government of April 19 1897, relative to the suspension of le- gal proceedings against agricultural real estate with the reservation of what may be agreed upon by the insu- lar chamber 'in due season." March 24 General Lee cables that the work of relief is progressing and gives l details about the distribution of SUD- 2 plies and adds: Have been greatly assisted by MT. Klopsch."
 March 2S, General Lee reports that , instructions have been given by the civil government of Fabana that the , alcaldes and other authorities shall
 not give out any facts about the recon
 centrados and if any of the American : relief committee should make inquiries concerning all such requests must be referred to him."
 , General Lees dispatches conclude : with dispatch under date of April 1 transmitting the decree of the gover- nor general containing the concentra- tion order.