The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-04-07
SPANISH BRUTALITY.


sfa.ss. II tasted sweet To them ard trey
sssxz esess their ts,<s as they looked the
broken form 81 IN. Maine and watci1rd tSe
xxsskrrs brsaKiFg up Shiny e0xp~@s from
the depths Of her hold. They did nos at
tempt to conceal their Joy ard pride.
s-Tae ssani-ss officials openly sxulteI
over the slaughter Of the m@n Of rar
Maine II i& 10 aSe for Consul General
Lee 10 deny this. fer hundreds os Aneri-
can. Witnessed IL. ! Wa IN Key West on
the might the Maine was blown eps but
was In Havana brsgh; and early tine next
morning. | saw such sights as have de-
zcria~d with my own eyes
As~riean CtsiEess i.ssitea.
american citizens In Havana are in
suited by The Spanish residents and the
Spanish cfs1isls every day OK their lives
Some OF them are ignorant % the insult
Ing remarks that are made in their hear
Ing because they do not know the Spanish
language. ! sat In a restaurant not many
nights ago in Havana. CHANGING at the
bin 81 fare. my eye rested on this.
81 'PouIetfs frieasse. Ia Maine
Here was 2 tempting dish for an Amer
lean appetite. Fancy loyal citizen OF
America ordering 4 meal from that menu.
"a few days later. seated in another cafe
In Havana with my brother, We overheard
a Spanish officer tell OF his plans for whip
ping the United States when war WAS de-
eizred. This high and mighty one was
evidently parsonage OF some conse-
Quenee. Over his swelling bosom was
scattered enough gold braid and lace 10
make a uniform for British admiral.
He said that his regiment consisted Of 20,
men. 'wasn war Is declared he crird
enthusiastically To his companions. we
will 20 10 Key West ard march from there
right into New York, We will at once
capture the bank. There II enough money
In the bank to pay off the whole of the
Spanish debt and make grandees of all
of us.
That :,elr-brained fool did not know
that Key West Is an island and that 1t is
thousands OF miles away from New York.
That IA place OF ore there are many hanks
| In New Eark. and that In all probability
before he and his 100 men had gone T. dozen
miles from Key West, providing they
would be lucky TO set that far. they would
be- cat 10 pieces by American soldiers.
You cannot beat . particle OF sense into
the brain OF the Spaniard. He will ROT
learn anything OF America and the Ameri-
can people until his puny natien is almost
wiped of the map by rncle Sans army
and navy. Then he viii appreciate some
thing OF the nestlc and capacity of the
people of the United States.
Weyier's Heiiued Cruelty.
THAT was the refinement OF cruelty
/ when Weyler, two and half years ago.
! ordered the herding of the pacificos into
the trochas. and the confinement OF the
helpless women and children OF Cuba.
/ No brain could have been brutal enough
10 conceive that order save Weyiers.
/ There Ii absolutely no parallel to the ter
ribie cruelty and inhumani.y OF that or
der In AL the history OF mankind from
the earliest ages, thousands Of years be-
fore Christ came TO this earth on mis-
sion OF peace and good Will Weyier's
order meant the extinction of the Cuban
race. For years. the Cuban people had
struggled againss the Spanish monster.
The hardy. ragged Cubans. ia saeir
mountain fagtnesses. were good for thou
sands or years against the as.a nIts OF the
Spanish wsyler knew this. he saw that
the only thing TO be done was 70 bot
out the race. TO separate the mothers
from the fataers. to sfarye and torture
and outrage the women and children TN
I'll they ceased TO live. and until they
couid no longer perpetuate the Cuban
race.
You have seen an American farmer
drive herd Of hogs to the market. This
IN mild parallel to the manner in which
Neyler and his Spanish soldiers herded
tne Cuban womesA children and aged
men into the trochas. The on.y differ
ence il that the American hog herde-
would not let his animals suffer for want
OF food or Of drink. while Weyier's meu
rslished the starving OF the Cuban women
and children.
We'll, when that order was promui-
gated. Weyler's butchers went ont into
the interior of the island taking care 10
keep out OF reach CT the insufgent sifarp
shooters. They went into the huts of the
natives. There they usually found an Oh
man. barely able TO craw. about. plant 4
few potatoes and tend a small tobacco
patch. You can just bet that his son WAS
off with Gomez or Maeeo fighting the
SnaniaEds. Inside the cabin they would
commonly find a fine young mother with
two or three little children foddsins
around after her Sometimes they weal.d
kill the old man first and outrage the
woman. Other times they would drive
them from their home burn the cabin and
order the old man. the helpless woraen
and their little children. into he irochas.
\ trocha is a small town. surrounded by
a ditch and a barb wire fence. II you SO
outside az that fence Spanish soldier
viii put q bullet through you.
Did Not tn,raa ia Murder.
We'll. they finally rounded up the re-
Concentrates. Weyier said he Did net
Intend to murder these helpless ones. The
pope ut Rome would not eonnlve at acgual
OF these Cuban mothers and children in
the pens Of the bFgts! Spanisa-iiftle bet
ter than ths American hog pn-was per
naitted 10 20 on uninterrupted. Death by
the bayones or the maehete--ius;auf
slaughter would have been thousand
times mere mercifui than the slow. lin.
gsrfns starvation which was the fate IN
srars for these Cuban matsers and chill
Gren. Wesier did not mean - commit
murder. Perish the thought. Eut he de.
lIiserately ana will. horrible maltCe and
ssarbsr.fy Of mind inccmprrAensibse 10 a
snan 81 civilized Instincts. SCI 10 work 20
sx{eFmsuSt@ these GeToacs14tr4daS He
Suade no preparation 10 house iaeul a. 10
eloshe them. 'T'aey ;ay aroaad the ira-
ch2g AID slowly Nifhere-f away for want
% Tanri sanasnt and shelter
People have strange ideas regarding
fhese Tecuncentfsaess, Soma Fgseu Think that
one has 10 travel miles snte the Interior
70 sea TIE sights wh.cA have been 81 VIZ
i8!y dsscr,hed by ThaTsson, pyeelor ana
othev ra~a in tAs United States senate
IL IS ser- minnie walk from the main stree
- Havana xcu can set right }ato saa
ntss -f fn@ <rsrV&aE rsE3nss 81 tesstsis