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Show ru i AN EXCUSE 1 I ! FOR EACH. AMU I p ' s4V, x - . V. , . eh ITH an unpardonable lack of tact or a grew-som- e attempt at a sinister piece of humor, Gen. Valeriana Weyler, the former Spanish captain general of Cuba, who gained for himself the unenviable title of butcher," has allowed the publishers to print the title of the sensational book In which he attempts to defend his conduct while the representative of the Spanish crown on that island, MI MANDO EN CUBA (My Command in Cuba) in letters of gory scarlet on a paper of livid gray. Whatever the motive may have been that prompted such a choice, that bloody "eye catcher of a line fitly symbolizes the man and the work which caused so many years of discontent in Cuba. Weyler has been on trial before public opinion for butcfiering his enemies instead of fighting them; and be flaunts in our faces the ugly stains that show where he wiped off his knife. Captain General of the most fertile province of Spain a (and province which more thau once manifested her Intention to throw off the Bourbon he makes yoke), such a case against the country that buys his services as no citizen of the United States could have ever made to Justify Americas attitude in the Cuban mix-uWeyler was the best hated man in Cuba when the government of his nation finally recalled him. This book will cause him to be cursed the length and breadth of the peninsula. "I wrote it," he says, "to give all the facts about my conduct as general In chief, a conduct admired not only by army officers, high and low, who wrote me innumerable letters, but by privates, who, on their return to the peninsula, 6poke of me with an enthusiastic fervor for which I can never thank them enough. (Various reasons prevented me from doing years ago (when I could not have freed my mind from a certain bias) a work which I can now do in perfect peace of mind, thanks to the time that has passed, and which has soothed the irritation due to the injustice I suffered at the hands of some men. "Furthermore I did not wish to sadden Senor Sagasta by retelling the story of our colonial disasters; neither did I feel any pleasure in censuring the illustrious Gen. Martinex Campos, my predecessor In Cuba, however uncharitably he acted toward me after his return to the capital. A perusal of the book falls to prove that Weyler 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, It could not very well be criticized In Spain by the Spanish government. Had Weyler been endowed with the literary genius of a Marbot or a Las Cazes, he could have made a much stronger case against Spain and presented his own actions in a much more favorable light. Unfortunately his knowledge of the writers craft is as deficient as his fund of information touching political economy, general history, national anad international politics Is meager. Weyler Is not a diplomat; the slippery land of nuances and innuendos Is to him terra incognita; a primitive brute, with rudimentary ethics, though unflinchingly frank and straightforward, he never ventures an assertion which cannot be supported by documents; he never pays any attention to hearsay but quotes peoples letters in extenso. A fascinating type, after all, for the observer blessed with the sense of history; just imagine what a Weyler would have developed into if he had not been born some 509 years too late; c ad In steel, he had been riding a caparisoned mouat, or, if he bad been allowed to range over Europe during the Thirty Years war! General Weylers style is very trying; even his proclamations vainly modeled after Napoleon I.s oratorical gems, rarely sound the note that His rela-- ,, makes a people or an army vibrate. tions of the Cuban campaign with all the facts, figures, names recorded in haphazard fashion day by day, is well nigh unreadable. But the decuments he publishes In support of his thesis (some of them of a confidential character and which must have been secured through diplomatic means") make It well worth while wading through an otherwise dull, shapeless and Indigestible piece of writing. First of all we are made to realize how hopeless the plight of the Spanish commanders had become in the island when Weyler took the situation In hand; the many generals who preceded him had been losing ground from day to day; their cables to the Spanish government gave Information of a pessimistic character of which the public and the press were seldom apprised; their confidential correspondence betrayed heartrending facts; more than once poor Gen. Martinez Campos had humbly confessed himself beaten, while the cabinet led the Spanish nation to believe that the war was practically over. Weyler himself, when placed In command of the Cuban army, was not even given what he was rntir'ed to, an honest account of the situation. Y1 en I landed in Cuba, he writes, "1 did f the terrible conditions that pre-'- ! island. I did not know anything ;i! Will vr vs "? gave (hem constant aid and kept them informed of every movement of the Spanish regiments Says General Weyler: "Of all the measures I took the most bitterly critlsized was the 'concentration, which saved my troops from being uselessly decimated and prevented the landing of arms and munitions consigned to the enemy. I need not defend lhat system. Whoever has a smattering of the history of modern wars knows that it was copied by the English in the Transvaal and the Americans in the Philippines, a fact most flattering to my pride as a general. "If Individuals were sometimes summarily shot under my generalship, as it hapjiens in the course of every war, they were put to death in obedience to the laws and regulations, never for the mere reason that they were insurgents. I pardoned those who returned to the fold, and showed much clemency to all those who came to me, however black their past may have been." It is a matter of regret that General Weyler should not' have deemed i.t advisable to volunteer more information as to the organization of the concentration camps. He says that one pound of meat and a quarter of a pound of rice were allowed to every f that ration to children, Individual over fourteen, and which seems quite sufficient under the A circumstances. paragraphs, few however, couched in, his blunt, soldierly-styleat setting terrible the naught preferred charges against him in connection with that stern system of war fare would have been interesting, but they were lack His - silence iug. amounts to a confesHe sion of guilt. makes a weak at tempt at explaining that the wives and of insur children gents were not con ' centrated, besides what tlie minister of war had .old me and what I bad read in the tapers or in anonymous letters sent by Spaniards living in Cuba, and I thought that all of them exa- ggerated the facts; I had no knowledge of the secret documents I have to appended this .book. How gloomy the outotk was Is set fortn graphically In a eonfldeniial letur from Oen. Martinez Campos to Caimvas del Caslilio. . prime minister of Spain. Although from the very first I tealized the gravity of the situation. I refused to believe it; my visits in Cuba, Principe ami Hoi-giappalled me; however, in order not to appear pessimistic, I did not express all my thoughts, anil I decided to visit not on.y the maritime communities, but the towns in the interior. The few Spaniards who live in the island do not dare to mention their origin except in the cities. The rest of the population hutes 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 ou could not get anyone to carry a message for 500 nor 1 pesetas; he would be hanged if " he were ever caught. . . The rebels who charged Weyler with wanton cruelty seldom restrained themselves from accomplishing deeds of violence likely to terrorize the few remaining supporters of the Spanish rule. To quote Weyler: The insurgents did not return In any way the considerate treatment accorded to them by this generous commander (Martinez Campos). At the hoginning of the war Maximo Gomez showed him-se.- f vary fair; but Maeeo, as 1 shall prove by authentic documents ordered his bands to set fire to all the sugar mills whose owners were not paying war tribute, to plunder and loot the country, to scoot mercilessly all the messengers, men caught repairing railroad lines or bringing provisions into the villages. Worse yet: The insurgent chiefs did not hesitate to kill with their own weupons defenseless islanders, and Maximo Gomez in his Memoircs confesses to having shot personally a man he had sentenced to death, a deed which I call willful murder. And still that individual presumes to call me assassin. As Ids uuthorlty for the foregoing statement General Weyler not only quotes extracts from the Cuban papers, but appends a proclamation of Maeeo, Gomezs lieutenant, to his bands. "Comrades in Arms: Destroy, destroy everything, day and night; to blow up bridges, to derail trains, to burn up villages and sugar mills, to annihilate Cuba is the only way to defeat our enemies. We have not to account for our conduct to anyone. Diplomacy, public opinion and history dont matter. It would be sheer insanity to seek the laurels of the battlefield, to bear the fire of the enemys artillery and contribute to the ory of the Spanish commanders. The essential thing Is to convince Spain that Cuba will be hut a heap of ruins. What compensation will she receive then for the sacrifice entailed by the campaign? We must burn and raze everything. It 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, desperate pirates was to adopt their own tactics. The Insurgents, of their own admission, never gave nor accepted battle, but harassed the regulars and Concentradestroyed their sources of supply. tion" seemed to be the only solution of the problem, for the wives and children of the Insurgents n , bu t obliged to betake themselves where the head of the family was supposed to This is be found. worse yet, for one can conceive the appalling abuses which such an order emanating from the general in chief must have countenanced and justified. As the revolutionary bands were constantly moving from east to west and from west to east and could not be located with any certainty, what an existence must have been that of families whose men were not serving in the ranks of the regular army. Refused army rations, compelled to roam from one devastated village to a burnt down hamlet, they could not hut succumb to hunger and exhaustion. Had Weyler been less brutally honest, he would have omitted such a damaging admission. lTp to this day we have had books of many kinds dealing with the Cuban war; pamphlets put forth by the insurgents and notoriously unfair to Spain; Spanish publications which misrepresented grossly the attitude of the United States; arliclts in European newspapers almost unanimously censuring the Americans for robbing" Spain of her colony. Now, however, we have the facts presented almost without any comments and certainly without embellishment by a Spaniard who loves his country and frankly detests the Americans. Once or twice he registers a protest against the senate's decision concerning the recognition of belligenerey or the campaign of defamation directed against him in American papers. He complains that in March. 1890, when he had the situation well under control, the senate of the United States interfered most unfairly, for it recognized the belligerency of the insurgents, thereby giving them new courage. This is less convincing than the majority of his arguments, for If we compare dates we And lepers in which he admits his failure to stop the pi ogress of tlie insurrection. His gravest charge against the United States is contained in the tollowing paragraph, which is too vague to be taken as seriously as some other statements of his: "The United States were against everything that would bring about a termination of the war American citizens litld several millions worth of Cuban bonds, issued with the provision that the island would pass under the domination of the United States ten years after Cuba would have separated berseif from Spain. The Yankees saw that with the pace I set the inde prudence of Cuba and its corollary, the annexation thereof, was tiecoming a more and more remote possibility. But there was no reason why the peninsula should have robbed all the gossip which origiHated in America." But on the whole the picture his letters ami repot ts, as well as the letters of Martinez Campos he publishes, present. to our eyes of Cuba in the years preceding the Maine incident would have justified any nation, near or remote, in intervening for the sake of humanity; a population unanimous in its desire for independence; a bloody war which could only lead to an ephemeral peace and at best would have left the island a dreary waste for years to come; the rights of foreign land owners and investors trampled under foot; all this horror had to be stopped. Spain did not lose Cuba as a consequence of the war with the United States; by the very admission of Spain's military representatives in that colony, Cuba was irretrievably lost to Spain In 1897, and the few Spaniards residing in the coast towns, i.he only safe abode for them, felt themselves a despised, 'ostracised minority. much-longed-f- TO BE MODEL A Have Tf' s? TOWN Many one-hal- &r- Gmm Wrim r-- H- ZINC Y Elevated Railroad and Advantages Is an Immense Enterprise. According to well established reports, Stephen S. Palmer of New York, president of the New Jersey Zinc who has company of Pennsylvania, been at Statlngton, Pa., for several months personally supervising the construction of a new $10,000,000 plant, has also arranged with the Chestnut hill railroad for an extension from its present terminus at Kunkle-town-, Monroe county, to Stroudsburg, to connect with the Lackawanna railroad. Mr. Palmer's project Is said to be rivaled In America this year only by two other great industrial organizations one at Gary, Ind., by the United States Steel trust, and the other at South Bethlehem, by Charles M. Schwab, For many years the parent plant of the New Jersey Zinc company of Pennsylvania was In South Bethlehem. The workmen of the plant, many of whom 40 years ago came here from France and Belgium, to produce zinc, are the best and most respected craftsmen In the town. steel When, during the Bethlehem strike, the rioters assaulted workmen indiscriminately, Mr. Palmer decided to abandon the plant there and concentrate his industry in the Palmerton section, where the new plant was located and the town named for him The Immensity of the enterprise can be Imagined from the fact that the be furnaces will and reducers scattered along a range of five miles, and to adjust itself to new conditions, the Central Railroad of New Jersey has decided to abandon two old stations and erect a new one In the center of the works at a cost of $100,000. It has been decided by Mr. Palmer to spend $1,000,000 to make an elevated railroad, first, for the safety of the workmen and their cnildren, partly for economic advantages and to preserve the beauty of the town. , How Mother (severely) many strawberries have you eaten out of this basket, Ethel? Ethel Only two. One to see how It tasted, and the other to take the taste out of my mouth. NO HEALTHY SKIN LEFT "My little son, a hoy of five, broke out with an Itching rash. Three doctors prescribed for him, but he kept getting worse until we could not dress him any more. They finally advised me to try a certain medical college, but its treatment did no good. At the time I was induced to try Cutl-cur- a he was so bad that I had to cut his hair off and put the Cuticura Ointment on him on bandages, as it was Impossible to touch him with the bare hand. There was not one square Inch of skin on his whole body that was not affected. He was one mass of sores. 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