The Red Cloud chief., 1910-09-22

inns DOCK. How gloomy the outlook was Is set
totuh sraphicaliy In a confidential letter from
Zen Martinez Campos to Canovas del Castillo.
prime minister OF Spain.
Although from the very first
reaiized the gravity of the situation, | refused to
believe 1t; my visits in Cuba, Principe and Hol.
gin appalled, me; however, in order not to appear
pessimistic. | lid not express all my thoughts. and
l decided to visit not only the maritime comnuni.
Ties, but the towns In the interior. The few Span.
lards VINO live in the island do not dare to men.
ton their origin except in the cities. The rest
oil the population hates Spain. Wherever you pass
a farm and ask the women where their husbands
are, they answer with terrifying frankness: In
the mountains with Chief So and So
You could not get anyone to carry a message
Tor 900 nor 1000 pesetas; he would be hanged II
he were ever caught.
The rebels who charged Weyler with wanton
cruelty seldom restrained themselves from accom-.
plisfing deeds OF violence likely to terrorize the
few remaining supporters of the Spanish rule. To
quote Weyler:
THE insurgents did rot return in any way the
considerate treatment accorded to them by this
generous commander (Martinez Campos). At the
beginning of the war Maxine Gomez showed him.
self very fair: but Maceo, as | shall prove by au.
thentic ordered his bands to set fire
10 all the sugar mills whose owners were not pay
ing war tribute, to plumber and loot the country.
to shoot mercilessly all the messengers. men
caught repairing railroad lines or bringing pro.
'''O'' st'~ N'S ''AieoSps NoioC OF. III llSuT"
gent chiefs did not hesitate to kill with their own
weapons defenseless islanders, and Maxine Co.
mez In his Memories confesses to having shot
personally a man he had sentenced 20 death, a
deed which | call willful murder. And still that
individual presumes to call me assassin"
AS his authority for the foregoing statement
General Weyler not only quotes extracts from the
Cuban papers. but appends a proclamation of
Maceo, Gomez's lieutenant, to his bands.
Comrades In Arms: Destroy. destroy every.
thing. day and night; to blow up bridges. to deraii
trains, 10 burn up villages and sugar mills, to
annihilate Cuba is the only way to defeat our enc.
mics. We have not to account for our conduct
to anyone. Diplomacy, public opinion and history
don't matter. 1t would be sheer insanity to seek
the laurels OF the battlefield, to bear the fire OF
the enemy's artillery and contribute to the glory
of the Spanish commanders. The essential thing
is to convince Spain that Cuba will be but a heap
of ruins. What compensation will she receive
then for tho sacrifice entaled by the campaign? ?
We must burn and raze everything, II would be
folly to fight as though we were an European
army. Where rifles are of no avail let dynamite
do the work. A. MACEO.
The only way to subdue such bloodthirsty, des.
perate pirates was to adopt their own tactics. The
insurgents. Of their own admission, never gave
nor accepted battle. but harassed the regulars and
destroyed their sources OF supply. "Concentra.
ton" seemed to be the only solution Of the prob.
lem. for the wives and children of the insurgents