New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-06-19

cense. The colonists were compelled 10 sell their
produce at prices fixed by the company, whose
net profits were at the rate Of 900 per cent.
! The company was also allowed TO maintain
! fleet 4 armed vessels known as Guarda Costas'
10 prevent trading and intercourse with any snip
/ or individual UNFINISHED with the companys
license In fact the oppression and despotsrn
with which Spain administered her colonial pos
sessions in this hemisphere would be beyond be-
lief were It not for the fact that il survived
until a few months ago in the Philippine Islands +,
| in all its mclirval horror.
! SPAIN DRIVEN OFF THIS CONTINENT.
! TIL success Il the S'etes ~ the North Amer
lean Republic IN freeing themselves from Eng
lish Sovereignty encouraged the sorely tired IN
hatitants q Spanish America to take advantage
II the difficulties in which Spain became IN /
waived Win France and England In the first !
decade % this century. and 20 begin ""rs Of m /
depcnd.no. On their OWN account and inasrnuch !
a. II, condition q affairs at Madrid at the time |
pr.oisa,d the dispatch Z relnforcemenis n the |
various y.c,roys and captain-gonorais the re- /
b.llons attained such proportions by ne time
mace had been restored IN the mother country. /
and troop. v...o sent across tho Atlantic ~ inc /
Western H.fni~rh.rc. that = vas then too late.
But tle Span.ards despite tho odds against
ther, made q stubborn ich;. just AZ they nave /
Len doing In Cuna. and although The war oi
irI.,.rl.rre han ~ Venezuela IN 1910. u |
lasted without interruption until M "heh
spain surrendered her last possessions on inc
American continent. !, was war chAra ter /
iz.1 i- n. sa,ac.ry and fr.ehtfui cruoitys "h!ch
Ill. Carlist conflicts. and IN more recent Tunes
p. struggle in the Antilles. have dem'nstFa'ec
g. i, inseparaila from Spanish methods Of con- /
duot.ne warfare. The royal troops showed the
Insurgents no mercy According 70 spanish ON
o,,, ,.,ords they executed 5000 persons many
4 whom were pu; TO death with every r'hno-
r.,nt cruelty. while The histories q the Latin
REPUBLICS 90 this continent show that there were .
a. l,as, a quarter q million victims thus *
,cu,.l exo,uslv, q the untold thousands killed
.n cold blood by tho royal troops who destroyed
every vilag. and town through which they
rassel IL tho Inhabitants Were suspected q
syrrrathiz.nr W.th the revolution
General M.rilo Rho commanded -. spanish .
I. goes N Ncnezu-.a Ecuador and ~" Grenada .
seems 70 have served az example % Genera .
W,yl,r. Fer 10 his oHicial dispatch describing .
Tho measures whi p b, al pted on entering The .
city Z Santa Re g. Hogo,a. ~ writes
.I..erv person g either sex who was capable .
- r,adinc or writing MAS put 20 death by
thls cutting ~ al ~ho were IN any Nay cdl-
Gated hop. cfcctuaily 20 check III, siir.t o.:
ne revolution"
AL Who had held official positions ~ th' local .
admin stration all Who were connected With the f
INSURGENTS or disting lished FOR their talents or
af.airn.nts aer. thrown into PRISON and there I
k.rt until the day appointed FOR their execution /
o,h.r they were either hanged or shot. husbands T
NJ, mt 10 death IN the presence Il their wives
and children pa the presence II Their parents.
These terrible acts - cruelty far FINN intm- F
dating the rehellious colonies merely served % /
exasr,rate them more bitterly against Spanish .
dominion and 20 determine them that death IN .
an, form was preferable O. a continuance q tn F.
afro,luus iyranny to which they had been -ut- .
i.,t.-l Moreover they were encouraged hH thc .
s,rrra,hy which their struggle cxci,ct. both In .
the United states and in England sympathy .
which showed itecr IN tho form = supplies and .
q volunteers IargD contnE'nis - NoTr
Amer. AIS ard % Brltors Wrre t. h' found
l-htinc SIDE hy s'do With the rebels H. almost .
every notable cnrac erncnt and in n, great
hattie g Ayacu u. Do December 1874 which .
proved the Geath-tlov o. Spanish rli. ln Ch.l
and Peru il was AL Tnclishman. Gcncro' M1er .
who wmart,i the cavalry ~ the Iariot army
50 Bib. au American. Coionel c'CoIuor. was chief
az s,an
ON DBL KIT hay. thought that - lesson thu.
ial-h; AZ So hDlvy cost would nave hsrr
taken o. heart .t Spain and that 3d.. would
hay. ordered boy administration - hoy RON .in-
ing colonial possessions tho Antilles and Oh,
Philip mes .n SD. D o. way as g. win =. good
a ii. ana tho N ,tion q n. poigiati.n. Such.
however. Was not tn case Spain rYrsucd In
cuba and iu M Far pilcu; tho SAM policy that
had resulted d. The JOSS 81 all h,r iinr1enr. De-
p.rdcn,cs or the American mainland and that