The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1898-04-10
THE CRUELTY OF SPAIN.
The Apostle OF Bigotry and Despotis,
Five Hundred Years of SavaueI

IN apostle OF Bigotry and DeSpotisIn
Five Hundred Years Of Savagery
and Bloodshed.
Home and Farm.
Well may al nations in this century
stand appalled, at the story told by
Senator Proctor Of the horrible con-
dition Of the inhabitants of Cuba. OF
no other nation save Turkey alone
could suuh stories be told, but the
Spain Of the Sixteenth century in Eu.
rope and America is the Spain of to-
day, brutal, oigoted, ignorant and OBJ
innate. What is said now of Spain in
Cuba has been told OF Spain at home,
OF Spain in the Netherlands, OF Spain
among the American Indians the ages
change Spain not the least. Commerce
passes her by I; the ages OF science and
discovery do not enlighten Spain and
Weyler OF 1898 is the legitimate sue.
ceesor of Torquemada and of the Duke
Of Alva.
Motley tells us that during the
eighteen years Of Torquemada's ad-
mlnistration OF the lnquIsltiou, 10, 220
individuals were burned alive, and
", 1921 were punished with infamy, con-
tiscation Of property or perpetual i'm
~prisonment, so that this one friar de-
stroyed 1l4,40l families.
Nup GILL "hSh ShdIJSS V
to establish the Spanish inquisition in
the Netherlands, the Netherlands re-
volted.
In the Netherlands Alva organized
the Council Of Blood. Here is Motley's
description of its work
Thus the whole country became u
CLEARINGHOUSE; the death hell tulled
hourly in every village; not a family
but vas called to mourn for the dearest
relatives, while the survivors stalked
listlessly about, ,he ghosts OF their
former among the wrecks of their for
mer homes. The spirit of the nation,
within u few moLths after the arrival
of Ava, seemed hOpelessly broken
The blood OF the best and braves,
had already stained the scatfold the
men to whom 1t had been accustomed
to look for guidance and protection
were dead, in prison or exile. The
scailoids, tho gallows, the funera
pyrrs, which had zen su llicicnt in or
binary times furnished o an entirely
Inadequate machinery for the incessan'
executions. Columns and stakes in
every street; the door posts of private
houses, the fences in the fields were
laden with human carcasses, strangled
burned, beheaded. Tue orchards ia tn,
country bore on many Is tree the hide
GUS lTulJ vi human OOuleS.'
This is the story of the Spaniard il
Europe 1T Is reproduced when we reat
Of the Spaniard in Mexico and Peru
" Indians. says Fiske, in writing o
Peru, Indians were slaughtered b.
tue hundred, burned alive, lmpaled Of
sharp stakes, torn to pieces by blood
hounds In retaliation for the murde
OF a opaniard 1T was thought proper t
cal fifty or sixty Indians and cho
their heads off. Little children wer
flung into the water to drown with les
concern than if they had been puppies
In the mingling OF sacred ideas wit
the sheerest dcviltry, there was
grotesqueness fit for the pencil of Dore
Once in honor Of Christ and his lively
apostles, they hanged thirteen Indian
In "a row at such u height that thei
toes could Just ouch the ground, an
then prickeu them to death with thei
sword points, taking care not to XII.
them quickly"
The story IS too well-knOwn and to
horrible to be repeated at furthe
length. 1t is the same bloody record c
brutality from beginni0 to end
story In which Spain is ever the foe {
civilization, OF humanity, of freedom
and the apostle Of bigotry cruelty an
despotism.
AS Spain was then, so is she tOda
) in Cuba; more feeble, it is true, but BIZ
cause feeble, more cruel. she see
power slipping from her, and sh
clings to it with the tenacity of dc
SPAR.
Let Spain and Turkey remain to bic
the map Of Europe If Europe will hav
1T SO, but the time has come to clos
the history of Spain in the New World
after five hundred years of almost III
Interrupted savagery and bloodshcd.