Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1898-03-05
WEYLER is MAD.
Butcher Wants the Queen to Make Nc
Kinley Apologize.

Butcher Wants the Queen to Make Nc
Kinley Apologize.
In his message at the opening of
congress, it will be remembered that
President Mckinley referred to Wey-
Ter as a brutal commander, and also
deprecated the uncivilized warfare
that was being waged by Spanish SOL
diers. The. reference made Weyler
furious, and he wrote a letter to the
queen. The publication of the letter
was suppressed in Spain for fear of
complications that might arise; but
Weyler's friends circulated copies of
it, and finally it was published in a
Mexican paper, from which it was
copied by the New York Sun, which
translates it as follows:
"MADAME-I come today before the
highest representative of the country
and the army, begging with the great
est respect from your majesty boon
which deem necessary to the Spanish
arms and my own honor as a soldier.
"From his high position, the execu-
tive of foreign power, at the solemn
moment of the opening of its congress,
has uttered insults against the army
of Spain of so gross nature that 1
can hardly believe they will be per-
mitted to pass without the energetic
protest of the government of your
majesty.
"The heroic soldiers who are she'd
ding their generous blood in the fields
of Cuba to defend the sovereignty OF
Spain, have been insulted in coarse
and cowardly manner before the whole
civilized world and treated as though
they were on the same level with re-
bsfious hordes of bandits who do not
Ieserve an honorable mention.
"The military measures, madame,
adopted in the Cuban war with the
full knowledge and consent of one Of
your majesty's governments, gov
ernment of Spain, are criticised as in
famous and unworthy of a civilized
people. The orders of the Spanish gen.
eral who commanded the army are
finally qualified, madame, as brutal
and calculated to fill the civilized
world with horror.
eff such insults were given only to
the soldier who has the honor to ad-
dress your majesty, he would not
complain of the weakness of the gov
ernment in permitting them to 60 un-
rebuked. He would, in fact, be ex-
tremely grati6ed to have called forth
such an opinion concerning himself
from a people who he considers to be
the open enemies of Spain. But when
these insults are also directed at the
entire Spanish army, when the oppro-
brious words are directed against the
honor of the invincible, noble, cour-
ageous soldiers of Spain, the general
who has fought side by side with those
soldiers, the general who has shared
the hardships of their lives, the gen.
eral who has honored himself by COM
manding the most heroic and largest
army of modern times, cannot tolerate
without protest the injustice of such
grave words. All my orders in the
field, madame, were inspired by the
noble cry of Viva Espana!
"No, cannot leave my companions
in arms alone. The man who has in
suited us has spoken his words at such
a distance that I cannot personally
punish him. I come, therefore, to
your majesty demanding reparation
for our military honor trampled upon
by the foreigner. Until the president
of the United States makes complete
apology to Spain I think that the
Spanish soldiers cannot wear their un-
forms with honor.
"Public has been the insult. Public,