Graham guardian., 1900-09-07

tell us whether we are drifting.
Are we not lost and that the only
way we may find the path of safe
ty is to call upon Satan to direct
our course hereafter? What man
who reads history with the book
right side up does not know that
the Romans, as a general rule, rob-
bed and plundered the countries
they conquered, murdered the best
of the people and sold the prison
ers they captured from the auction
block with the exception of those
placed in arenas to be devoured by
wild beasts? This sort of civiliza-
ton carried abroad by the Romans
was such as Spain brought to the
American continent and consisted
of rapine and robbery so long as
Spanish rule was permitted to
exist; and still, it is hoped that an
imperial America will be pesmit-
ted to engage in the same "benif-
cient" work.
In fact the life of Spainas we'll as
that of the Roman and British en-
pires, is written in inocent blood
and is black with crime. Turn to
the history of Cortez's conquest
| of Mexico from 1918 to 1921 and
read of the hundreds of thousands
of inoffensive men, women and
children who were inhumanly
slain and witness the appalling and
sickning spector; and to Pizarro's
expedition to Perue where thous-
ands of inocent lives were sacri-
feed and the Inca foully murder
ed after having paid four million
ducets as the price of peace for his
country. Then turn to the hor-
rible deeds committed by the Duke
of Alva in the Netherlands the in
fanny of whose crimes no pen has
been able to properly depict. His
deeds were absolutely appalling
This savage monster established
what is known as the Blood Coun-
Gil and destroyed all judicial trib-
unals, and before himself and his
Blood Council the innocent peas
antry were brought, and without
a trial and without evidence they
were indiscriminately sent to the
stake or to the rope. All that was
but vivid parallel to the sava-
gerry and murder during the career
of Wyler in Cuba. He the great
est monster in ancient or modern
times, went to Cuba with the de-
liberate and premeditated purpose
of depopulating the island by
every sanage processSsknown to
the arts of Imperialism. The mid
night darkness was made lurid by
the torch applied to the habitations
of a peaceful and innocent peas
antay who were shot in the light
of consuming flames, not even old
men, wemen and children being
spared. All this was done by an
idle and reckless soldiery whose
pastime was pillage. There
was universal destruction, devas-
tation, mourning and ashes. Fin
ally the arch ffend, considering
that death was not speedy enough
to answer his purpose, ordered
that all the pacificos, who were
non-combatants, should be con-
centrated in certain places, hud-
died together like hogs in pens,
not permitted to be furnished with
food nor permitted to seek food
for themselves; and, as result
over 100000 perished by starva-
ton and exposure. Cartez, Piz-
zaro, the Duke of Alva and Wyler
are the Spanish butchers ofmodern
times, but Wyler will stand forth
in all ages to come as the most
cruel and inhuman. The inhu-
man course persued by the
Spanish in Mexico and South
America as we'll as in Cuba, only
80 miles from our shores, was but
a reflection of Roman outrages
during the empire.