The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-03-25

papers of the starving reconcentrados
are true They can all be duplicated
by the thousands. 1 never saw, and,
please God, may l never again see, so
deplorable a sight as the reconcentrados
in the suburbs of Matanzas. l can
never forget to my dying day the hope
less anguish in their despairing eyes.
Men. women and children stand 81
lent, furnishing. Their only appeal
comes from their sad eyes, through
which one looks as through an open
window into their agonizing souls.
The governor of Matanzas, Mr..
Thurston said. could see no end to this
no relief except through the United
States.
MUSKETS WITH FOOD.
1.-THE government of Spain will not
appropriate one dollar to save these
people" said Mr. Thurston. Think of
the spectacle We are feeding these
citizens of Spain; we are nursing their
sick; we are saving such as can be
saved. and yet there are those who still
say it is right for us to send food, but
we must keep hands off. / say that the
time has come when muskets ought to
go with the food.
Il shall refer to these horrible things
no further. They are there. God pity
me: l have seen them; they will re-
main in my mind forever-and this is
almost the twentieth century, Christ
died 1900 years ago, and Spain is
Christian nation; she has set up more
crosses in more lands, beneath more
skies. and under them has butchered
more people than all the other nations
of the earth combined.
Europe may tolerate her existence
as long as the people of the old world
wish. God grant that before another
Christmas morning. the last vestige of
Spanish tyranny and oppression will
have vanished from the western hemi-
sphere"
TIME FOR ACTION.
Discussing the remedy which should
be applied, Mr.. Thurston said: Il coun-
seled silence and moderation from this
floor when the passion of the nation
seemed at white heat over the destruc-
ton of the Maine, but it seems to me
the time for action has now come. Not
action i, the Maine case. l hope and
trust that this government will take
action on the Cuban situation entirely
outside of the Maine case. When the
Maine report is received. if il be found
that our ship and sailors were blown
up by some outside explosive, we will
have ample PREPARATION without quib-
BILE or delay; and if the explosion can
NE lIdCcQ W opuDlSil
there will be such swift and terrible
punishment adjudged as will remain
warning to the world forever
What shall the United States do,
Mr.. President"
For answer, Mr.. Thurston. as a Re
publican, turned to the last national
platform of his party.
REPUBLICAN ANSWER.
Our PLATFORM said he. demands
that the United States shall actively
use its influence for the independence
of the island. l am not here to c=..i
else the present administration; L yield
to no man living in my respect, my ad
miration for and my confidence in the
Judgment. the wisdom. the patriotism,
the Americanism of William Mckinley.
When he entered upon his administra-
ton, he faced a difficult situation. 1t
was his duty to proceed with care and
caution.
1T was the plain duty of the presi-
dent of the United States to give to the
Liberal ministry of Spain a reasonable |
time in which to test its proposed au-
tonomy. That time has been given. |