The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-04-02

+ The situation. then. h not war - ~.
/ understand 4, but chaos Of devAsfafsou
and dspopalasion OF underlined duration.
| whose end no man can see.
/ 4 viii cite bur a few facts that came
| Under my personal observation. al tend
! ing fully 20 snhsfantiate the absolute truth
/ ct tbs foregoing propositions ! conid DE-
| tail incidents by the hour and by the day,
| but the senator from Vermont has ao-
/ sosufely covered the case. have no de-
/ size 20 tea. N horrors II had my way
| would shield the American PUZZLE even
| from the Photographic reproductions OF
/ the awful SCENES that viewed In all their
| orssjnai ghast.snexs-
| Spain has sen; TO Cuaa more than L.
| co sasdseYs 20 subdue the Sand, whose
| entire male population capable OF bearing
| arms did not exceed at the beginning that
| number. These soldiers were mostly boys,
/. conscripts from the Spanish hills. They
! are we'll armed bat otherwise seem to be
| absolutely unpros.ded for. They have
| besn without tents and practically with
| out any of the necessary supplies and
i equipment for service in the field. They
| have been pat In barracks. in warehouses
/ and old buildings In the cities. where all
| sanitary surroundings have been OF the
| worst posz bic chzracter.
There are less than 1900 now available
| far duty. The balance are dead or sick
| In hospitals. or have been sent back to
| Spain as lncspae:tated for further SET
vice. II is currently stated that there ara
now s7.oo sick In hospitals. I do not be-
could stand an engagement In the open
field against 1900 well disciplined Amer
lean soldiers.
FAMIsHING IN SILENCE.
'The pictures in the American papers
OF the starving reconcentrados ara true.
They can all be duplicated by the thou
sands. / never saw. and please God I
may never again see, 10 dspsorahse a
sight as the reconceBtrados In the sub
urbs of Matanxas / can never forget TO
my dying day the hopeless anguish In
their despairing eyes. Huddied about their
little bark huss. they raised no voice OF
appeal to Us for aims as We went among
them.
THE present autonom.st governor OF
Matanzas fwho speaks excellent English).
WAS inaugurated In November last, His
records disclose that at the city Of Mat
anzas there were I 200 deaths in Novem-
her. 200 I'm December, 100 In January and
500 In February-3.6o0 In four months. and
these four months under the administra-
tlon OF . governor whom ! believe TO be
truly humane man. He stated to ma
that on the day OF his Inauguration.
which l think was the 18th OF last No
vember, 10 his personal knowledge nj
teen persons died in the public square In
front OF the executive mansion. Think OF
u o. my countrymen. fifteen human be-
ings dying az starvation in the public
square. I'm the shade OF the palm tree and
amid the beautiful flowers. In sight OF the
open windows Of the executive mansion
s.The government Of spain has not
and win not appropriate one dol
lar 10 save these people. They are
now being attended. and nursed.
and administered to by the charity
of the United states.
RUTcHERIES UNDER THE CROSS.
Think Of the spectacle-we are feeding
these citizens OF Spain; we are nursing
their sick. VIC are saving such az can be
saved. and yet there are those who still say
II Is right for as 90 send food. but we must
Keep hands of. I say that the time has
come when muskets ought TO so with the
food
I'VE asked the governor IL he knew of
any relief for theee people except through
the charity of the United States He ala
not. We then asked him: Can yon see any
end TO this condition of Affairs He could
not. We asked HIN: When do you think
the time Will come thai these people can be
placed In a position OF seif-supporte He
replied To US with deep feeling: Only the
good God or the great government OF the
United States can answer that question:
| hope and believe that the good God. by
the great government OF the United States
Will answer that question.
81 shall refer 60 these horrible
things NO further. They are there's
Cod pity me, ! have seen them, they
Will remain I'm nay mind f0r~ver-and
this II almost the twentieth century.
Christ died nineteen hundred years
nxo, and Spain IL n Christian nation.
She has set mp more crosses Ia more
lands beneath more skies and under
them has butchered more people
than all tho other nations Of the
earth combined.
Europe may tolerate her exist-
~nce n. long as the people Of the
old world wish. God grant that be-
fore another Christn,as morning the
last vcstix- Of spanish treachery
| will have vanished from the vveat-
/ crn hemisphere.
Mr.. President. the distinguished senator
from Vermont has seen all these things:
/, he knows all these things: he has de-
| serioed ali these things: but after describ-
ing Them he says he has nothing 10 pro-
pose. no remedy 20 suggest.
~ have. am only an humble unit
In the great government of the
United states. hut I should feel nay
! self traitor did ! remain silent
| now.
II counscled silence and moderation from,
this aoo~ when the passion OF the nation
/ SCREENED at white heat over the destruction
/ OF tho Maine; bat 1, seems TO me the time
! Tor seton has new come Not action in
TIE Maine case-I hope and trust that this
government viii take action en- the Cuban
situation entirely outside of the Maine case
When the Maine report is received. II il be
/ found THAI oGr ship and sailors were blown
. np by seine outside explosion we Will have
ample PREPARATION without auihhie or delay
/ And II the explosion can be traced 10 Span-