The Forrest City times., 1910-09-23

'"e,i' Anerlca's attitude in the Cuban mixup
 "eyler was the best hated man in Cuba when ule government of his nation finally recalled him. Ah1s oook will cause him 10 be cursed the length and breadth of the peninsula
 wrote It. he says. to give all the facts apout my conduct general in chief a conduct admired not only by army officers high and ioW who wrote me innumerable letters but oy privates, who. their return to the benin @uia, spoke Of me with enthusiastic fer vor for which I never thank them enough various reasons prevented me from doing years ago (when l could not have freed rny mind rom certain bias) work which I can now do in perfect peace of mind thanks to the ume that has passed, and which has soothed the Irritation due to the injustice suffered at the hands of some men.
 Furthermore did not wish to sadden Senor sagasta by retelling the story of our colonial disasters; neither did feel any pleasure in cen suring the illustrious Gen. Martinez Campos my predecessor in Cuba, however uncharitably he acted toward mo after his return to the capital"
 perusal of the book fails to prove that Wey. Ter kept his promise to treat the subject with perfect moderation; the generals blood is still boiling. and with some Justification for atrocious as his conduct was in many instances 1t could not very well be criticized in Spain by the Span ish government
 Had Weyler been endowed with the literary genius of Marbot Las Cages, he could have made a much stronger against Spain and presented his own actions in much more favor able light. Unfortunately his knowledge of the writer's craft is as deficient his fund of nfor maton touching political economy. general his tory, national anad international politics is meager
 Weyler is not diplomat. the slippery land of nuanees and innuendos is te him terra incog nita a primitive brute, with rudimentary ethics though uudinchingiy frank and straightforward he never ventures assertion which cannot be supported ty doeumcnts he never pays any at tention to hearsay but quotes peoples letters n exteAso
 A fascinating type. after all. for the observer blessed with the sense of history; just imagine what a Weyier would have developed into if he had not been born some 500 years too late; clad fin steel. he had been riding caparsoned mount or if he had been allowed to range over Europe during the Thirty Years war
 General Weyler's style IS very trying; even his procamations yaiuly modelled after Napoleon I's oratorcal gems. rarely sound the note that makes people army tbrate. His rela tons of the Cuban campaign with all the facts. figures. names recorded in haphazard fashion day by day. is well nigh unreadable.
 But the documents he publishes in support of his thesis (some of them of q confidential char acter and which must have heen secured through diplomatic means") make well worth whue wading through otherwis, dull. shapeless and 1ndcestbe piece of writing
 First of all made to realize how hope lens the plight of the Spanish commanders had become in the island when Weyler took the situ- aton in hand; the many generals who preceded him had been losing ground from day to day: their cables to the Spanish government gave irformatCn of pessimistic character of which the public and the press seldom appraised; their confidential correspondence betrayed heart rending facts; more than poor Gen. Marti- neg Can1pos had humbiy confessed himself beat en. while the cabinet led the Spanish nation to believe that the war was practically over
 weyler himself when placed in command of fhe Cuban army was not given what he was entitled to. honest account of the situation
 When I landed in Cuba" he writes. T did not even suspect the terrible conditions that pre- vailed in the island. did know anything