The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-03-25
SENATE IS MOVED TO TEARS
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 tax or tribute upon the principal plant- ations in other provinces, and, as is commonly believed, upon the entire railway system of the island.
 In, the four so-called Spanish prov inces there is neither cultivation nor railway operation except under strong Spanish military protection or by con sent of the revolutionists in considera- tion of tribute paid.
 Under the inhuman policy of Weyler not less than 100000 self-supporting, simple, peaceable, defenseless country people were driven from their homes in the agricultural portions of the Spanish provinces to the cities, and imprisoned upon the barren waste outside the res- idence portions of the cities and within the lines of intrenchment established a little way beyond. Their humble homes were burned, their fields laid waste their implements of husbandry de- stroyed, their live stock and food sup plies for the most part confiscated Most of these people were old men, women and children. Slow starvation was their inevitable fate. A conserva- tive estimate indicates that 210000 of these people have already perished from starvation.
 The government of Spain has never contributed one dollar to house, shell ter feed or provide medical attention for these, it's own citizens. Such a spectacle exceeds the scenes of the In- ferno as painted by Dante.
 There has been no amelioration of cit oh pie of the United States. There has been no diminution in the death rate among these reconcentrados except as the death rate supply is constantly di- unfinished. There is no relief and no hope except through the continued charity of the American people until peace has been fully restored in the island.
 Spain Powerless.
 Spain cannot put an end to the exist ing condition. She cannot conquer the insurgents. She cannot re-establish her sovereignty over any considerable portion of the interior of the island. The revo1utionists, while able to main- tain themselves, cannot drive the Spanish army from the fortified sea- coast towns.
 The situation, then, is not war as we understand 1t, but a chaos of devas- tation and depopulation of undefined duration, whose end no man can sec
 In detailing the incidents and re- citing the facts that came under his observations MT. Thurston said he had no desire to deal with horrors. If had my way" said he, q would shield the American public even from the photographic reproductions of the aw- ful scenes that I viewed in all their original ghastliness."
 Of the 250,OoO soldiers Spain had sent to Cuba, less than 6O0OO were now available for duty. The remainder are dead, sick in hospitals or returned to Spain incapacitated. It is currently reported that 37,000 are now sick in the hospitals on the island. The army was in poor condition and under lax disci- pline. T do not believe" said he, 'sthat the entire Spanish army in Cuba could stand an engagement in the open field against 10000 well disciplined American soldiers. Of the Spanish soldiers, he said that they, of all peo- pie on earth, would most gladly well come any result which would enable them to return to their homes.
 The pictures in the American news papers of the starving reconcentrados are true. They can all be duplicated by the thousands. T never saw said the senator, land please God I may never again see so deplorable a sight as the reconcentrados Tn the suburbs of Matanzas. I can never forget to my dying day the hopeless anguish in their despairing eyes. Huddled about their little bark huts, they raised no voice of appeal to us for aims as we went among them. Men, women and children stand silent, famishing. Their only appeal comes from their sad eyes, through which one looks as through an open window into their agonizing souls"
 In Matanzas the people had done all they possibly could do for the recon centrados, but 1t was too true than many Matanzas people who resided in fine houses scarcely knew where their own next meal was to come from. The governor was willing that the recon centrados should repass the trocha to their homes, but the great majority were physically unable to go. Their fate was slow death by starvation. The governor of Matanzas, MT. Thurs ton said, could see no end to this con- dition of affairs, and could suggest no relief except through the United States.
 Mnskets With Food.
 '"The government of Spain has not and will not appropriate one dollar to save these people, continued the sena- tor. 'They are now being attended and nursed and administered to by the charity of the United States. 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 our hands off. say that the time has come when muskets ought to go with the food.
 T shall refer to these horrible things no further. They are there. God pity me; I 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 a Christiap ma tion She has set 11D more