The Advocate and news., 1898-03-16

FENNAA1 Ns@e
long rainy season with It's attendant fe-
Vers. Quinine should be sent In cap
sules and here is where the druggists
have a chance"
Mr.. Miller found, as others have testi-
fed, and as the official reports show,
that the Spanish policy Of Concentra-
tion had been abandoned only on paper.
The following story which Mr.. Miller
tells Is not by any means all there is to
tell, but 1t is as applicable to every town
In Cuba under Spanish control:
But when you have seen, as have
seen, a woman huddle her rags about
her heshless bosom and stretch out for
a penny of aims, an arm slender as a
broom stick--hear her whispering the
while, For the love Of God, senior, for
the love Of GOd' and then tell her,
Wait a little while, wait just little
while, and hear her answer, without
sob or moan, 'Ah, but shall be dead
then you would do just as / did.
you would remember that here in
the West we have had one year OF
plenty; that autumn more than fulfilled
the promise Of spring; that abundance
fills q million homes. You would have
said, l as have said: I will go back to
my own people and tell them what l
have seen, that they may send you life,
There are cooped up here to-day
more than 10000 men, women and chill
dren, who are dying for lack OF some
thing to eat.
when a band Of officers from the
Montgomery, now lying at Havana, Wis
tied the town, they estimated the num-
ber at over $4,000. The starving ones
die in such numbers, however, and their
ranks are recruited so rapidly by others
reduced to destitution that 1t is not pos
sible to take an accurate estimate. 1t
Is enough to know that there are thou
sands and thousands at the point of
death because they have nothing to eat.
Among them are people Of our own race
and blood.
when the officers Of the Montgomery
were there these sufferers presented
petition to the Consul declaring that un-
less aid came to them quickly 1t would
find them dead Of hunger.
"The officers of the Montgomery left
Matanzas with empty pockets and sal
ary accounts exhausted.
Among these starving thousands are
many who have been well-to-dO, accus-
toned to comforts and the refinements
Of pleasant life. Some of them suffer in
hiding and die in silence with the sense
Of pride preserved.
There Is In Matanzas lime kiln in
which seventeen Of these driven empty
handed from the country took shelter.
They were unable to build themselves
even huts.
When the stencil of dead bodies
brought discovery only four Of them
were found alive. The others had help
lessly starved to death.
Those who found the four identified
them as living human beings. The un-
accustomed eye saw merely four skele-
tons, with the skin stretched dry and
hard over the bone frames like the
parchment head of drum.
Others Of hunger's host, driven to
the streets by the needs Of those dear to
them, beg for food from house to house,
and unavailingly, for no one longer has
food to give.
Even the dogs that were the scav-
engers of the streets were long since
killed and eaten"
Response should be made to this ap-
peal at once, for even a small cOntribu-
tiOn quickly sent may save human life.
Send what you can to the Star, and
work to enlist those about you to offer
aid.