The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1898-03-25
IN SUFFERING CUBA.
Striking Sentences From Ser
ator Proctor 8 Speech.

Recently, Senator Proctor visited
Cuba 10 Investigate it, condition
Upon his return he made q speech
In the senate depicting a horrible
state of Affairs In the island. Fol
lowing are some extracts:
@Deaths In the streets have not
been uncommon. was told by
one Of our COnsIls that they have
found dead about the markets In
the morning, where they had
erawled, hoping to get some OF the
stray bits OF food from the early
hueksters, and that there had been
cases where they had dropped dead
inside tho market surrounded by
food. These people were indePen-
dent and self-supportlng before
weyleIs order"
sWhen will the need for this help
end: Not until peace comes and
the reconcentrzdOss can 30 back to
their country, rebuild their homes,
reclaim their tillage plots, which
quickly run up to brush In that
wonderful soil and cline, and until
they can bs free from danger OF mo-
IesiatiOn in 80 doing. Until then
the American people must In the
main care for them"
The Los PasOs Hospital, In IIa-
vans, has been recently described
by one OF my colleagues. Senator
GaIlinger, and can not say that
his picture Is OVerdrawn. for even
his fertile pen could not do that. 1
saw il when 400 women and chill
dren were lying on the stone floors
in an indeseribAble state Of emAciA-
iOn and disease. many with the
scsntiest coverings Of rags, and such
rags, and sick children, naked as
they came iatO the world. And the
conditions in the other cities are
even worse"
Conditions are unmentlOuable,
The people, torn from their homes,
with foul earth, foul air, foul wAtsI
and foul fOOd or nNa-. what won
der that One-half have died. and
that One-quarter of ths living are
- diseased that they cannot b
saved. A fOrn Of dropsy IS = com
mon disorder resulting from ihesC
conditions
Little children are still walking
about with arms and chests terr.
bly, emSciated, eyes swollen and
abdomen DlI aied to thrre times th'
natural siEs. The physicians SAY
these cases are hOpsisss.-
Il saw no house nor hut In tn,
400 miles Of railroad rides from ri
mar del Rio province In the wes
across the full width OF HHVAnI
and MsisnEas provinces, and I
SaguA Ia Grands, on the north
shors, and 10 CisnfuegOs, on 1h
sOulh-shOre u santa Clara, sxeep
within the Spanish IrOehAS-'
~And Il cur people could zee
small fraction Of the need the
would pour much more freely frOI
their liberal siorS" than ever bsfOI
for any cause
lit is ssid there are about coo
Spanish soldiers now 10 Cuba I
for duty, out OF over $4,000 thI
have been sent there. The re-
! have died. .been sent hOae,slck an
= in hospitals. and some have bee
n Killed, Notwithstanding the ofhcl
ersPor;S-
TO me the s;rOnses; appeal
no, the baTharity IracIiced |
WeylOr, nor the lOss Of the haiH
-four sears shOuld prove true. Il
rible - are both these ineldsn
te but the spectacle Ot . million and
= half people, the entire native 70
=, ulAiiOn Ot Cubs, struggling
Of freedom aud dsliveranos frOm {
Q, wOrs, misEOVsrnmsnt Of which
er ever had kUOwlsdEs."
Al There are no domestic animi
lls OF crops On the rich lslds and n
II turs except such - are unt
" guard In The immediate vicinity
ne the towns, Ia other cords. I
Spaniards held In ihssr four Ne
era PrOviacss just What their ara
slts on
nj ~An the county people in {
f,,r yrassera Droylnces- abNnt Il