The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1898-03-25
Spanish military protection, or by con.
sent OF the revolutionists, on condition
Of tribute paid.

OF tribute paid.
No Desire to Deal In Horror.
In detailing the incidents and rec;t.
ing the facts that came under his oh.
servatlon, Mr.. Thurston said he had
no desire to deal in horrors.
IF | had my way" said he. "I
would shield the American public even
from the Photographic reproductions of
the awful scenes mat | viewed in all
tier original gnastincss. -
lhe pictures III the American news.
papers ot The starving reconcentradoos
are true. They can all be duplicated
Oy the thousands. | never saw. and
! please Eou may never again see SO
dcpiorable Il sight as the reconcen.
tradoes III the suburbs of MatanZas. |
can never forget to my dying day the
hopeless anguish OF their despairing
eyes. Huddied about their little bark
huts. they raised no voice of appeal to
u Tor aims, AS We went among them.
Men. women and children stand
Silent, furnishing. Their only appeal
comes from their sad eyes, through
which one looks as through an open
window into their agonz.ny souls.
spain HAS Done Nothing to Help
In Matanzas, the people had done all
they possibly could do for the recon.
cea'radoes, and 1t was too true that
many MatahZas people who resided in
fne houses scarcely knew where their
own next meal was TO come from. The
!
ceAiradoes should pass the trocna e.
their homes. tut tho great majority
were physically unable to do so. Their
fate was slow death by starvation.
The governor of Matanzas, Mr.. Thurs.
ton SAID. could see no end to this con-
dlt.on Of affairs and could suggest no
relief except through the United States.
The government of Spain has not,
and will not appropriate one dollar to
save these people. They are now being
attended and nursed and administered
u by the charity Of the United States.
h!nk Of the spectacle. We are feeding
tnosc citizens Of Spain; we are nursing
! their sick; we are saving such as can be
saved. and yet there are those who still
say ii is not right for US to send food
but we must keep hands off. say that
the time has come when musHct:
ough, to 20 WIKI the food.
spain. Arraignincnt
II Shall refer To these horrible thing.
no further They are there. God Pity
, me, have seen them; they viii re
mann IN my mind forever and this i
almost the twentieth century! Chris
died 1900 years ago and spain Is ;
! Christian nation. Sac has set up NOR
y crosses IN more lands, beneath NOR
! skies, and under them has butcheret
more people than al tho nations OF tn
: earth com bincd.
!. Europe may tolerate her eSistenc
g as Ion; as the people of the Old Wor.'
@ wish God grant that before anothe
!, Christmas morning, the last vestlge Q
I Spanish tyranny and oppression WI
r have vanished from the Western lem
< isphere.
i. Twice within the past three years, MI
@ Thurston sad he had voted for rest
/. luton to recognize the belligerency
tho Cuban insurgents, but he was sa
istied it was now too late to accor
:. them belligercnt rights or even merei
r to recognize the independence OF u
20 Cuban republic.
10 Intervention Is Demanded
n "Our platform, said he. "demanl
of that the United States shall actlve
10 use its influence for the independent
Q. Of the Cubans | am not here TO crit
Q. c.se the present administrator yle
v 10 no man living III my respect, II
to admiration for and my confidence
OF the Judgment, the wisdom, the pa,rio
40 ism. the Amcricanism ot " ma
C. Mckinley. When he entered upon II
I'd administration he faced difficult SIT
* alton. 1t was his duty TO proceeu WI
W care and caution. :,
H. Mr.. Thurs,on then recoun'eo I
steps which the pres d nj h"u 'ah'
III upou the Cuban qucsilon during
no past year. and pronounced ms c'u'
ld wise. s,atesmanlkc and III acco'ua"
he with the diplomatic usaSes OK
=, world.
ed ..lt WAS the plain duty the pfesias
a, of the United States 10 gave 10 ''c :.
he eral ministry OF Spain reasoia
10. nm, IN winch To test us ploPos
to autonomy. That time has been give
III. Autonomy is conceded the wide wo, .,
N. oy.r ,o be a conspicuous failure. !
,ut s,,,,tion IN Cuba has only change"
ad ~. worse. Sa-asta is powerless; blar
is powerless to put an end , TO 'nv u, - 9
1ict to rchabllitate lsiaha OF W
m. lieye the suffering, Starvation anu
~. trcss. 49,, ,o,
The time for action has theh col