| Show IIi SCENES IN A SPANISH PENAL COLONY I T XTA1 Ilenjamln Kldd 1 who nest t IT Propounded the theory that racial III morality tended toward racial Inn I t nil rIle gave In other word n national na-tional at plication t to llaloe old dictum > r Be lrtuoui and > ou will be hap though I they li grind slow grind en 1 1 cenllnc I Small Hpaln has been rtrlppnl i of J her once wealthy I colonial I empire i I and today In her ImpoverWied tannin ruli the broads n broken and dying nation na-tion on the glorlci I or n day that It I i i Ii Ul tl I Y Vr II I the Philippine were Pent The nil Ino men nomen and children have lon l1 bunllrl oft to thin lilanl and there huddled together In one large wnodn barrncki I without distinction or act or let The building or course like nit Pianlih prisons was without vcntl alien and the Prisoners were without 101 Children fell III In a row days women were soon 1I1h down and In lime even the hardiest mn too numbed In the dreadful climate What the 110000 did not iffert want neglect and the total absence or all ranllary roo qulnmenti attended The result bAl been that or ItO Klllrlnni and Cuban lent nut In title Island only II remain No IM than m I dle l ihorlly alter their arrival at Ternanda Va Only 42 or Ihe demists Illlle bund or survivors have Wen pardoned or these lurvltori IS an kept by the Spanish government and have doled out to them two cups or rice lot Cay equivalent lo IH pound and n Illlle beer The letter of the low governing the smallness I of The moM deplorable feature of the I tnUr affair l le I that Spain t hai not yet been Prevented from enrr7lnR on such burbarla practiceiTNot long Uo the Hpanlili Meaner tranche wan reported at Canary on her way to Fernando Io The Uirache had on board 340 wretched Fllltilnoi who may perhaps not have been nnneli but certainly were not dIn serving 01 the dM fate which by this time mutt have overtaken them ir their ones are not already rotting beneath the minima lad n toll or Ihll went African convict inferno It will not be long before they come to that end Hpaln or course does nut worry very much about this at III li a very agreeable agree-able and easy way or getting rid of troublesome Individuals It It I necemn ry In keep a mall band ot Spanish vole antrtra on the Inland and I a gunboat and nuardihlp In the harlnr but these more fortunate Indlvldu are able to take a change or air when the effects or I Iho Climate train to be I tl The Indignation or Europe naturally I t 61 La y + f AY9ltf I r > t mot I dos aarosroa = r all 7 ry SPANISH SOLDIERS AT FrIIXANDO PO pye Tulh then this too mdd I showed that the nation that was villa 1 our would be I nol only happy but long lived l and proiperoue n The corollary or KMln nilon II i equally true a billion thai U I cruel arrogant and merciless li a nation that Is I Inund toy I tome mysterious but Irre I 0111101 taw 10 come 10 on untimely i end The worlds Itleft llllle object Iton I i titt1641t In national morality In Ihn dlUnlol Un ot the Spanish empire Title dlln i eirratlon hit teen lung In corning About but the mllta or the Radio I corn tons Plo was not c < o > lj 1 certainly the 1 la far from hippy I One or the terrible wrongs hat hall always lit at the door or the Spaniard la the inerclleia way In which he hat always ireairl his prisoners The nc companlnv pictures or Ternando IX the tong l ilreadeil and Pestilential island owned by the Hpanlardi Jut on the Southwest coast or Africa cornea ai it melancholy faroir echo or the national Intolerance end cruelty or this dying I nation It wo 10 the fever alllk tn Island or Kernando Io that to many rapture or suspected Insurgents or od = r I fP r = 1 h h 01112 l tJy ittPiJ 1 1 Tim iiAtiuoii or ITIINANUO ro the beer donation la I strictly observed but un In lew I ot this the tun I rnrlu nat prisoners who hove 10 and a lining na beat l they can look upon these favored fa-vored U with envious eyes hAl been arou > eI at theme abuses but am America very well knows Europa I bee n weakness far armchair sympathy which la very low In drtcloping Into actual Interference |
