Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-08-03
RELEASE CUBAN PRISONERS.
frcsidcnt McKinley WIN he Asked To In.
si't On Their Release Denial OF
Cuban Atrocities.

New York. Aug. a.-Thc World this
morning prints the following.
PrefIdent Mckinley will -oon be
asked TO include among tho provisions
upon which peace will be- established
with Spain the freeing OF nll cubans
Imprisoned hy tina, TRY for onenscs
which may be clasa,d AZ political.
In all the spanish pend colonies
ceuta and the Ike. thtr are about
300 cubans who have been captured
during the last three years The horrors
Of these prisoners have been fully deH-
cribcd lately and Il has been said that
the punishment melted out 10 these men
h. altogether out OF keeping with their
crimes.
The EFFORT will be- made by Tomas
Estrada Palma, The president OF the
Cuban Junta. In fact, Dee has already
instituted an agitation 90 that cnd and
he viii not give up until hia object has
been accomplished. Friends OF his arr
now at work la thu capital with this
purpose Ia view ana they viii soon be
in communication with the officials.
"ls u not Just ana filr that this
4
Here iH "a war Won with the help ~
the CuhanH. Thousand % prisoners
have been taken by One American army
uud they are not Co. Do. "pt but arr 20
be sent back 10 spain This ~ mag
unanimous on the part " America, but
would 10 not be- q g1Ul Thing 10 make
this a vehicle FOR Tho liberation OF the
Cuhann who have been Imprisoned since
the war beEanf
~ think thls ,yottiJ d. "a unost t,,,d,-
bic plan ana I do nui think Il viii be-
necessary % do much urrinE, | think
II viii commend Itself 90 any thinking
man that the Cuhnus who are In prison
for the very thing Tor which the Amer
leans have gone ~ war should be- free
now that Spain has been defeated and
that there II 10 good a chance 10 ex-
change them FOR some " the thousania
" tho Spaninrds who have been cap
tur.d In the war.
This brings me 10 a consideration
0f tho terms Imposed 1n Spain by tho
United States. | fanl they are most
moderate and IN my opinion this gov
erumpnt has raised ItHtlf TO the high
cri attitude In demanding 30 little. n
virtually asks from 9nlIn ne follows
Give uH Cuba for the CubanR. give ur
Porto Rico FOR ourselves. and the Phil
ipplnrH ~ make any use ~ that may
hereafter be determined
And when you come TO look at n,
what does these demands really mean
u 10 simply saying Give as what we
already have because We won II from
YOU I do not know lf my other nation
which would have been 90 generous on
that would not have ukcn everything
Il could.
"Thc Cubans never Kept any prls-
onors NJ war. when Huy % the enemy
were captured they were treated AS
kindly as possible ana were Hont back
10 the Spanish ranks u they wanted
10 ~. We have never had any whom
We could sNChlnE' Tor our own com
rndes who were 100 prisons"
you have read NJ che cruelty attrl-
hutud 90 the cuban that wuntonly
hehended many Of the Spanish prls-
Oners recently tukHU. What Ia your
opinion Of these atlr'HH''
- do not believe There II word OF
truth In them. No cuban would be 30
low ~ to maltrcat "a captured Zoe, much
less hehend him, Mind you, this is
only my opinion. ! bow. had no advice
on thnt score from ihn scene OF war;
but | am willing 10 stake my reputn-
ton that no cuban soldier ever de-
meancd himself by taxing such an ad-
vantage 81 a man who was unable 10
defend himself That would not be war
fare ~ would be- murder
"Rccurrl"- % the liberation Of Cuban
political prisoners. / viii AZ once begin
the agitation 20 have them EXCHANGED
FOR some OF the prlsoners captured by
the Americans"