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

The graphic picture Of the horrors
OF Spanish rule and of Spanish policy
in Cuba, drawn by Senator Proctor in
his address to the Senate, Thursday,
should arrest the attertion OF the
American people and irrevoca.bly fix
their determination to put an end IN
some way or other to such barbarities
at cur very doors. The Register yes
terday published very complete syn
opsis of this address, but owing to its
length some important portions neces-
sarily had to be eliminated, among
them the following;
deaths in the streets have not been
uncommon. l was told bysone of our con-
sula that they have been found dead
about the markets in the morning where
they had crawled hoping 10 get some
stray bits of food from the early buck
sters. and that there had been cases
where they had dropped dead inside the
market surrounded by food These peo-
plc were independent and self-supporting
before Weyler 5 order They are not beg
ears even now There are plenty of pro-
es.Snal beggars in every town among
~ r7.s1Iar residents but these country
neople the reconcentrados. have not
learned the art Rarely is i hand held
out to you for aims when going among
their nuts, but the sight Of them makes
an appeal stronger than words
Of the hospitals ] need not speak
Others have described their condition far
better than | can. 1t is not within the
narrow limits of my vocabulary to por-
tray it. l went to Cuba with strong
conviction that the picture had been
oyerdrawn: but a few cases of starvation
ana sufferings had inspired and stimu-
lated the press correspondents and they
mad given free play to strong, natural
and highly cultivated imagination. Be
fore starting 1 received through the mail
leaflet published by the Christian Her
and with cuts of some Of the sick and
starving reconcentrados. and took it with
mo thinking these were rare specimens
got M to make the worst possible show
ing / saw plenty as bad or worse: many
mar should not be photographed and
shown. | could not believe that out OF a
nonnlation of 500 coo 100000 had died
within these Spanish forts, practically
nrison walls within a few months past
from actual starvation and diseases
caused by insufficient and improper food
nv tnouiries were entirely outside of sen
eatianal sources They We're made of oul
medical officers. of our consuls of city
,lrades tmayors). of relief committees
~ leading merchants and bankers. ply
sicians and lawyers. Several Of my in
formants were Spanish born. but every
time the answer was mat the case ha6
,ot been overstated. What ] saw | can
M tell. so that others can see IT, j
ntst BE seen with ones own eyes to be
,aalfzed The Los Pasor hospital in Ha'
yana has been recently described by one
Of my colleagues. Senator Galhnger. ane
annot saw that his picture was over
Drawn. for even his fertile pen could not
that re visited il after DR. Lessar
one Of Miss Barton very aoie ana el
ea;ont assistants had renovated it aNC
nut in cots. | saw II when 400 women ah'
maven we're lying ON the stone floors il
disease. many with the scanuest GOVERNS
.ays-and such raga!-and sick chill
,,,sd as they came into the world
go tho conditions in the other cities arr
even worse
= vas not long since that the hear
If the American people was profoundly
toncbed by the situation in Armenia
7, Cuha we have state OF affairs
laast as bad, and in some respects Ia
worse The infamous order OF Wey
!. has resulted in the death by starya
.;on Of at least two hundred thousan
nan women and children. and in aw
-, suffering and complete misery t
orhans twice as many more. unles