Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-03-19

there is a speedy change tens of thous-
ands who now have a spark of life re-
naming in their emaciated bodies will
be added to the death list and other
tens of thousands will take their
places and await a horrible end in
turn. The situation appeals with the
most profound intensity to the com
mon instincts of humanity, and i'm
mediate and vigorous action in the
direction of ending at once and for
ever the spectacle which now horri
ties the world is duty which the gov
eminent can no longer disregard and
in which it must not fail of perform
ance and those who protest against in
tervention in any form and who cry
for peace at any price must be made
to step TO the rear while the great
body Of the people act in a righteous
cause-not for the annexation of Cuba,
not even necessarily for Cuban indie
pendence. but TO put a stop once and
forever to the slaughter by starvation
and disease of a whole population
strugglings for the freedom which we
of America know so well how TO prize
and which we so we'll knew how to
gain and hold.
War at best is terrible thing. But
in modern times at least the deaths and
the personal physical suffering falls
almost wholly upon the male popula-
ton embraced in the armies actually
in the fieAd. The situation in Cuba is
not one of war; it is infinitely worse
it is desolation-and its worst horrors
fall upon helpless women and innocent
children-upon the mother the
maiden. the youth and the babe-and
all as the deliberately planned result
of the infamous order of Weyler, who
has dragged the honorable profession
of the soldier fighting in his country
cause in infamy without parallel IN
the past thousand years.
Senator Proctor said in his address
he mad carefully eliminated all sensa-
tionalism from his remarks, yet here
is another of the pictures he lad be-
fore his fellow Senators:
Many doubtless did not learn OF TINS
order. Others failed to grasp its terrible
meaning. It's execution was left largely
to the guerElas 10 drive in all that had
! not obeyed. and l was Informed that IN
many cases a torch was applied to their
homes with no notice and the inmates
! fed with such clothing as they might
| have on. their stock and other belongings
| being appropr lated by the guerillas Wheh
| they reached the towns they were al
lowed 10 build huts of palm leaves IN the
| suburbs and vacant places within the
frochas and left TO live. if they could.
! Their nuts are about lox13 feet IN SIZE
| and for want of space are usually crowd
ed together very closely. They nave no
| floors but the ground. and no furniture
and after years wear the people nave
| but little clothing except such stray SUD
| etitutas as they can eXtemporize With
| large families or with more than one IN
! this little space. the commonest sanitary
! provisions are impossible. Conditions are
uncomfortable in this respect. Torn from
| their homes with foul earth, foul AR,
! foul water and foul food, or none, what
wonder that one-half have died ana mat
! one-quarter of the living are so diseased
| that they cannot be saved. form OF
| dropsy Is a common disorder resulting
| from these conditions. Little children are
| still walking about with arms and chest
! terribly emaciated, eyes swollen and an
| domen bloated to three times the natural
| size. The physicians say these eases are
hopeless"
Surely here is cause for American
action The voices which cry for
peace at any price and for a continual
ton of the policy of non-interventlon'
| should henceforth be forever stilled.
The time for the end of the Cuban hor-
| ror has fully come. Let us hope TINS
can be done without bloodshed.
If the summer months find hostlll-
ties in full swing what is the tourist to
do for his pleasant ocean bath? There
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