Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1898-03-23
sPAIN AsAN OPPREssoR.

The picture of misery and suffer
 ing in Cuba, which was so graphic
 ally portrayed by Senator Proctor in
 the Senate the other day, should
 arouse our Senators and Congress
 men to a full sense of their duty
 towards these starving people. The
 atrocities committed by the barbar- ous Turks on the Armenians pale
 into Insigni6cance when compared
 to the cruel and worse than bar
 barous treatment of the Cubans by
 civilized and enlightened Spain. It
 is not enough that our peoole should feed these starving thousands, but humanity demands that our govern
 ment should intervene and prevent
 this wholesale slaug hter, by starva> tion, of innocent women and chil-
 dren. In view of all the pictures of
 desolation which have been painted
 in words by people who have recent
 ly visited Cuba, the following pen
 picture of Spain, taken from an exchange, does not seem to be in the
 least overdrawn or exsggerated:
 Show us a man who loves human
 nature, and We will show you a man
 who hates, and is hated by,--Spain. Every man who ever took a step in
 the march of progress has been
 ambushed by Spanish soldiers. IT Spain ever took one step forward 1t was to enable her to get within gun shot of some friend of the human race.
 'Other nations have shed oceans of blood that some human beings might be free. Spain has shed blood that she might enslave. Follow the path of civilization back-back, l month after month, year after year, century after century. back to where 1 the faint trail IS lost in the sombre | shades of eternity, and at each step Of the way you will find the skele- !. tons of every man or woman who 1 for one moment ever lifted up the 1. torch of reason-murdered by Spain. |
 The people of other nations built | ships that they might carry mer- chandise and civilization to distant parts of the earth; the peoplr of Spain built ships that they might become pirates. Other nations in vented the spade and shovel; Spain invented the stilleto. Other nations invented the steam engine; Spatn invented the thumb screw. The men of other nations studied ana tony that they might set broken bones with the least pain to the sufferer; the men of Spain studied anatomy that they might Un the rack, break human bones with the greatest pain to the victim. Other nations organize societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals; Spain organizes societies for the en- of bull fights.
 "Other nations built jails in which to incarcerate criminals; Spain built dungeons into which she cast honest men who interfered with Spanish Other nations point with , pride to their schools; Spain points with pride to her inquisition. Tue army of no other nation was ever . known to burn a school house; the 1; army of Spain was never known to ! pass school house without reducing ( to ashes. 4 soldier of no other nation, except wien drunk, was ever i, lnown to murder a baby in its T 'radle; soldier of Spain, except T shen drunk. was never known to pass baby in a cradle without it.
 "The men of other nations study hemistry that they might distiil ntidotes; the men of Spain study hemistry that they might distiil ~ olson. For every Darwin Hum. 'oldt. Spencer, Stephenson, Fulton V nd Edison that other nations have :, iven the world. Spain has given a tul u .ucretla Borgia. s' Most nations have shed blood q ghting for the right; Spain has D ever shed one drop of blood in the ause of human liberty. Other na- T' ions pay their debts because they D we them; Spain pays her debts that U le may borrow more. Other nations o y to the weak, comei Spain says se the oppressed, go! Other nations n' " 10 the ignorant, welcome; Spain tc Iys to the learned, stand back" ei