Show LATEST ESCAPADE just fancy the captain general of cuba and his subalterns subal terns with their decorations flashing in the sunlight and their sidearms side arms glittering like jewels of great value down on their knees and engaged in the task of eradicating sweet potato vines we are advised that from the sublime to the ridiculous Is but ove one step and this latest episode in the antillean career of the spanish gran dees is proof positive of it no 1110 mattor matter that the object wao wa as stated to d deprive ri the cubans of their only av available x food in certain emergencies and this Is always a recognized measure or warfare the circumstances coap connecter conne ctr ed with the carrying out of the plan are such as to take the matter out of the pale of war heroics and place it in the domain of opera speaking of weyler suggests that he seems to be doing about right in the cisneros case for that matter it to not absolutely certain that he ham haa drifted as far from the right as he haa h been represented in any case ate reign as far as it goes has been violent and at times cruel but warf warfare afre Is a cruel business and it is to be expected that destruction and retaliation will occur the business of a soldier in time of war Is to make as many widows and orphans and leave as little for the enemy to subsist upon as he can within certain lines and subject to certain regulations even it if weyler had strictly conformed to those lines and regulations his proceedings at this time when war between the civilized and enlightened nations I 1 is 8 the least thing thought of would seem to be barbarous and cruel in the extreme it is still hoped that the days of the captain general or of any other imported official are rapidly drawing to a close in cuba no matter whether he I 1 and they have deported themselves properly under the circumstances or not for a race of people inhabiting a land which Is theirs by right of inheritance and occupancy from time immemorial to be thus governed Is wrong in its essence its philosophy and its practice may the day speedily come when such abuses of natures laws will be known no more in any part of the world |