The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-04-18

son by burning the town. They BAR
gained t. surrender. IN their lives ana
clothing being spared them. and their
stipulations were agreed to. Cabrera
marched them with his regiment a few
miles out. then stripped hem and had
them run for their lives. There were
sixty-nve of them. his own country
men. and he chased them until the
snort was ended with the killing OF the
last man.
SPANS career in the new world has
been one of continuous b~loodshed; for
four hundred years she has been
guilty of ~treacheries and b~utcheries
with which the acts of the Sioux In
dians are not to be compared. The
Carib Indians. who numbered 100000
in Cuba and 800. 900 in Porto Rico. were
butchered as ruthlessly as IL they had
been vermin by the Spanish invaders.
and these Indians were a peaceful. nom
resisting tribe In 1929 the Spaniards,
under DE Navtraez. penned up $500 In
dams at Mobile and exterminated them
by fire and sword. In 1865 Pedro Men
endez with his band of adventurers at
tackled the colony Of the French Huege-
nots on the st. Johns river. in Florida.
and slaughtered 200 of them. sparing
only the servants and a few mechanics.
| who were carried off by the maraud-
ers.
Spain forbade the American colonists
the privilege of navigating the Missis-
| sippi river while she was in possession.
She united with Great Britain after
the war of the revolution for the pur-
pose of keeping the colonists east OF the
Allegheny mountains. After the United
States accomplished the Louisiana pur-
chase from France in 1904. Spain dis
puted the formerly accepted border.
and for fourteen years carried out a
policy of harassment toward American
settlers.
In 1913 Spain united with Great Brit
ain and France in preying upon Amer
lean AS matters were con-
tinually growing worse along the Flor
ida border, Andrew Jackson obtained
the permission of the president to at
tack the Spaniards. and he invaded
Florida in 1918. scattering the preda-
tory a%dventurers and Indians before
him. Two hostile Indian chiefs were
captured n hanged. and two British
adventures. Arbuthnot and Armbris-
ter. were similarly executed for incit-
ing the Indians TO attack the Ameri-
cans. This nearly precipitated a wal
with Great Britain. Florida was ceded
to the United States when 1t became
evident that Spain could no Longer
keep II.
Trouble between Spain n the Unit
ed States over Cuba, says the Detroi
Tribune, has lasted for over seventy
six years. Cuba first asked to be an
nexed to the United States In 1922. be
cause several OF the South American
colonies had obtained their independ
l ence. The representatives of the Co
lumbar government were received a
Washington. but Cuba could not oh
q tain recognition. Narcisso tried to FIRE
Cuba by flibustering expeditions fror
Y the Southern states. but two expedi
= lions failed. inc finally Lopez an
and Colonel Crittenden. an America
: officer. were executed.
: In 1852 Spain secured the support c
France and Great Britain and IN
three tried to force the United State
to enter into a tripartite agreemer
that each of them would disclaim fc
all time any attempt to acquire posses
n sion Of Cuba, but President FIJI
more's administration refused to ent'
). into such an agreement. A number
American vessels were seized an
searched. and American vessels pu
!. ting in at Havana were almost invari'
=. bly, insulted by the governor genera
In 1854 the ship Black Warrior W;
seized and confiscated.
At the suggestion OF President Pier
the United States ministers to En-
l. land. France and Spain met at Osten
r. Belgium, and formulated the famo
No Ostend manifesto. Among other thin
r. recommended was the purchase of c
Is ba, II 1t could be brought about. a
N II It could not be acquired by purcha'
to lake II by force of arms. This pu
ba pose was defeated by the growing str
A between the North and the South.
n. was suspected that the acquisition
va Cuba was a pretext for securing anoi
Cd er slave state.