The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-12-11

literally piled up as targets for Spanish
 bullets. He said these reconcentrados were a non-combatant people; they
 were farmers. tillers of the soil, peace ful and good workers. but were driven | from their homes, compelled to inter- l rupt their industries and were forced
 to the over crowded towns by Weyler. | Their homes were burned, their cattle
 starved or killed, and the towns to
 which they were driven were so over-
 crowded that there were no provisions
 for hundreds and hundreds.
 | The result of the crowding of the
 Cuban towns had other bad effects.
 It bred disease, starvation and misery;
 increased vice, multiplied the number of deaths and completely disorganized
 society. The destruction of the homes
 and the killing of the cattle and other farm properties were necessarily fol-
 lowed by the idleness of the land. The
 farms soon grew to wild state and would require more money and care to
 make them what they were than the
 establishing of new ones
 The speaker said that a neglected
 farm in old New England became waste
 land soon enough, but those in the
 tiOPASol Clilllol lC, lle ne,iQ, WSlC Sof,iSu
 with brush and weeds in less than a
 quarter of the time 1t takes up here.
 Other results of Weyler were the
 breaking up of homes, and the death or disestablshment of the larger part of workers, women and children.
 In speaking of the remedy for all this, Dr. Moxom said that first of all immediate relief to the starving is nec- s1 IL .,ix~ ta. +A case of a man who should come to your door utterly exhausted from lack of food. You would have no time to ask who he was, why he had no food or to argue in any way. You would, in order to save his life, have to feed him i'm mediately. So 1t is with the Cubans. there are hundreds who are on the threshold of starvation and if they are 1 not given food they will die. Many" he said. ''llave already been saved just | in the nick of, time, and many more | have died simply because there has | been no means to let those who can 1 help know.
 "The next step is that of giving help | to serve the help. To supply a num- Der of capitalists or organizers of in dustries who can go in and guide the | people and build I'D the many indus tries of civilization that are like aban- doned wrecks on the sea. Another way to help is to have the men go back to the deserted farms and to supply them with provisions tools, live stock. SO that more products could be turned out to those in greatest need.
 "One of the greatest of all cares is the care for the poor orphan children, of whom have no place to sleep and who beg their food from day to day. And again, the many widows l who were cut off from their only source of living by the killing of their hus- bands are there waiting to be helped.
 Tn a word, immediate relief, help to those who are able to help themselves, and care for the helpless are the three great remedies"
 Dr. Moxom then told of the plan pro- posed by the executive committee of the relief fund, and read from a report on some of the work that had been done. He said:
 The Cuban industrial relief fund has in operation in Ceiba Mocha, twelve miles west of Matanzas, two relief farms: Outlook Farm No. i and New England Farm, comprising nearly two hundred acres of excellent farming land. These farms are equipped with twelve American work mules, plows hoes and other farming tools.
 Practical farming operations are car ried on, under the superintendence of capable American farmers Corn, sweet white potatoes, tomatoes, on- Ions, beans, peas, and various kinds of garden vegetables are cultivated. 4
 The purpose of these farms is to en- able destitute reconcentrados to support by honest work. The util- ty of the farms in this respect exceeds,i all expectations. About 750 persons are support wholly or in part from the labor provided by the farms The pay roll October 10, 1S99) contains lS0 names. Each man on the roll has dependent upon him from three to elev- en persons. In some cases thirteen year-old children are supporting whole families of sick and dependent rela- lives.
 Five of our workmen have saved enough of their wages to make small for themselves in the coun- try. Others are saving their wages for tho same purpose.
 Destitute, sick and hungry people swarm in upon us each day, literally begging for work. Until we have more { funds at our disposal, however, we can- l not help them #
 Dr. Moxom said that some were too proud to beg and that there were men who were good workers and would avail themselves if an opportunity. should 'ffer. In closing the preacher said he / a ac acc{c cfo ov,aa 1,< Iz. d the committee so it could continue n the great work. (