The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-05-08

irhs1lneA urunx. That d4aA bodie1 through
fssese exec1xftona Were common things -
the acids a. web ~ In the strests. Thss
were paDed and rerassed by the reopss
and their families withOus protest CT seem
inxiy without feeling. So accustomed were
these people TO these outrages that they
seemed to have no sense OF human kind-
ness or desire for the bettermenr CT tneir
fellow men
One monk of the order OF 81 Francis
Friar Marx de Xalicia. in charge Of al 9
the order in Peru, says that the scan $
wire in the hahi. Of feeding their hounds
UPON the babies or the natives. and thai
.aAetssnes they were known 10 take snsaA
boys GU. into the water where the SHARKS
congregated and there toss the children IN
10 see the usan-eatsrz fight for the fso1.
Seemingly they enjoyed this worse Tran
cannzb allstic barharsty. Even az late as
i7is there seemed TO be no cessation Of the
crueIties nor had any of the proposed re-
forms been adopted. Don Antonio Ulloa
and Don Jorge Juan in this year. upright
meE on the South American continent:
made full reports to the home govern
ment which were afterwards translated
and published in Boston. These reports
TEEN with incidents Of cruelty 10 native
slaves that only the feroeity OF Span
lard could invent.
II makes ones flesh creep to even think
OF such acts, and when Il is taken into
consideration that the Spanish nation IL
today no better than then II ". uld Ger a n
iy seem justifiabie 10 wipe them OF the
face of the earth" In facs, the rights OF
humanity demand that the Spanish race
forever cease such work and that the last
mark Of their lasting disgrace be wiped
from of the Western Hemisphere.
Close the hooks OF history and look at the
present. Flash upon the mind the true
Photographic pictures OF Cubans who have
been confined in Spanish prisons during the
trouble on the island. Az, cast aside tie
photographs and lock at the true condition
as it has been seen by many an American
citizen during the last ninety days
Starved. decrepit. shrunken native Gu
bans. placed in their condition because OF
the awful ferocity of the Spaniards. Even
farther have they gone. Natise children
and women have been murdered with the
bayonef. Men purposely starved to death.
In fact, all sorts OF ertleitseS. that cnarac-
terlzed the race 400 years before upon the
same island, have been again pat into ac-
fion In this time other nations have al
vanced and gone to the highest plane OF
civilization. To put it in the faireSt way.
Spain has stood still. and in fact, Ii would
seem that she has gone backward
Compare our brave boys In blue of Sc
attic who marched down the street on
their way to the front IL needed. with the
Dons whom they shall meet, then who can
say as TO which should triumph, and which
race sould rule the world. There is no
compromise. There can be none Compro-
mise always with he true. but never with
the devil. The welfare of the Christian
civilization demands that the Spaniard and
his barbarity shall be wiped from all the
Americas and shall be reiegated TO the 1T
tie peninsular from whence they come. BY
their own acts they have forfeited their
rights TO. and lost. all Of that group OF
islands save four. What greater stride can
civilization make than to behold at the
dawning of the twentieth century the re-
treat of the Spaniard from the last of the
group, which for 400 years they have gov
erned in the most dasiardiy way known
to civilization.