Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-07-02

'3The civilized world was recently shocked
by the report that the bodies of several
american marines killed I'm Cuba were
lmutilated by tho Spaniards. Subsequent
Investigation tended to show that the sup
posed mutilation was the result of Mauser
bullets, but there Is much evidence to
provo that the Spaniartis used bullets that
were practically explosive, thereby violat-
ing every law of humanity in civilized
warfare Perhaps the most significant fact
connected with the reports of Spanish saw
agcry Is the fact that general credcncc is
given to any charges of barbarity that
may be made against that degenerate poo
pie. Centuries of murder and torture have
branded Spain as the arch criminal among
nations, and 1t is natural to credit any
lack of inhumanity on her part to coward
ice or lack of opportunity
Tho policy pursued by the Spaniards
during the present Cuban instruction is
but continuation Of what has been done
since the days of Charles V. 1t is charged,
by Ricardo Delgalo, one OF Macco's trust
cd lioutcnants, that every Cuban prisoner
who has fallen into the hands of the Span
iards has hecn shot down like n dog, no
matter VIXEN or whcrc captured. The sick,
the wounded on the battlefield or in the
hospitals have met the same fate. THE
Cuban dead arc not even respected. Their
tongues and fingers are cut off and their
bodies mutilatcd. OF innocent women and
children and feeble cid men and women
who have fallen into the hands of the
Spanish soldiers perhaps from 10000 rs
10000 have been nssaSsina;cd. They have
been shot down In theft houses or by the
roadside and their bodies left tu the birds
Of prey. The Spanish have reported these
rs "killcd in battle.
There Is evidence of the assaultinu and
killing OF many women aud even of young
girls Of 10 by these brutal. bloodthirsty
Spanish troops Why shouldn't they nc,
thus? Did not General Wclycr set the cx.
ample during the Ten Years war by taking
into his camp in the woods, in the district
Of Guaimaro. province uf Camagucz, the
wives and daughters Of men belonging &c
the best families OF Cuba. and after he
and his companions bad compelled them
to disrnbc and dance before them they
were assaulted
Among their number was Mrs. Palm.
or, whom Wcylcr forced to knccl and
his spurs into her lesh us II she wcrc
horse. These poor women were aftcrward
given 20 the common soldiers. who NAL
treated them 50 that ilany of them died
&. Not content with thar, their bodies wcrt
mutilatcd after death
On or about Nov. 80, 1871, II was re
ported in Havana that the glass on Q
Spanish officials monument IN the GENE
terry outside Of Havana had bccr Gcfacct
with q diamond ring by some student
This act so irfitatcd the Spanish resident:
of Havana that the whole class of stu
dents, numbering 100. We're by order o.
the captain general chained. thrown int
prison, whipped and efterwaNl set at hare
work in the quarrics because they refused
TO tell who had marked the monument.
After being imprisoned for some six OF
seven days they were on the eth of No
vcmber taken out by the commanders O
the volunteers, with the approval of tn,
captain general. Ten were selected by To-
they were boys from Is to IL years old
and taken into, the public street known a
La Punta and shot down by the soldier
TO satisfy the Spanisrds' bloodthirsty crav
ings for revenge.
At the beginning Of the trouble between
the Spanish and the Cuban insurgents th'
Spanish seem TO have used nothing bu
the regulation bullets, and the wounds
from which the Cubans then sufferer
allowed nothing but the usual symptoms