Show APPEAL TO AMERICA the aident Pr asked askea ts to protect the unarmed Reci residents dents of cubi cuba chica chicago go march 29 the record tomorrow will contain a letter from gen gomez written to Pies president ident mckinley and containing a copy ocono of one written february february y ath to president cleveland the records copy was sent by C E crosby the correspondent reported killed during a battle near arroyo blanco bianco the original letter to president cleveland either went astray or was suppressed by the recipient capie nt gen gomez says in the field near sancti march 1 1897 the lion hon william mckinley president of the united states of america six gen weyler lias arrived in the district of sancti with a numerous army lie he comes not to fight nor to oppose bis big strength to to the forces with which I 1 defend these parts but as a sanguinary and cruel general J who will avoid combats and cpr spread ead crime and de desolation everywhere ile he comes to murder the peasants in the fields to kill the children and to drive our persecuted and outraged women to the woods leaving their 7 homes to be burned their h earths violated and their gardens destroyed st this is how bow gen weyler pacifies sancti or wherever he ha may he be then lie ho authorizes aut bories t hose who ask him for bread for their children and alleviation for their miseries mib eries to go out into the country and destroy whatever they may find with V t it this thie permit tile me to lo send 1 1 you a copy of a letter which I 1 had bad the honor to send your our predecessor in office mr grover cleveland it is the hope that it may move you to sacred action that induces me to take up my pen to trouble you the letter to mr cleveland is very long and is an earnest aphea appeal for tho the intervention of the united states in behalf of unarmed men women anil and children who are represented preen ted to ho be ruthlessly slaughtered ered by the spanish soldiers the general enumerated some fame of the crimes charged against spanish h tol soldiers diere expressing the deepest horror that such things is could be in this enlightened aze age and said ali ah sir air the vici of this thia cruel struggle have caused much atin to the heart of an all old and unfortunate father but nothing has made me suffer so much as the horrors which I 1 recite unless it is to see that you remain indifferent to them say to the spaniards that they may etrul agle with us and treat us aa they please hut but that must respect the pacific population that they must not outrage women nor butcher innocent children the american people march legitimately at the bead of the western continent and they should not longer tolerate the cold and systematic assassination of defenseless fen seless americans lest history impute to them a participation in thase atrocities the monroe doctrine cannot re fer er to only usurpation of american territories and not to the defense of the people of america against european ambitions it cannot mean to protect american soil and leave its helpless dwellers exposed to the cruelties cruel ties of a sanguinary and despotic european power it must extend to tile ane defense of the principles which animate modern civilization and nd form an integral part of the culture and life of the american people |