Show HORRORS accumulate it was fondly hoped by many and believed by a few that we had heard the most of the horrors of cuba which had grown up under the rule of weyler and blanco blamco but it seems greatly otherwise the horrors are under the american occupation which is going gradually forward but beginning to be unfolded and when the whole of the horrid tale Is told it promises to be a volume whose contents have rarely been equaled in all the worlds history the chicago record has a staff correspondent at havana whose statements of the situation seem to be impartial and an d fair and in most of his statements he uses direct language rather than generalities from this source it is learned that at a time when the people of havana and the surrounding country were suffering from hunger blanco not only refused to admit foodstuffs free of duty as he did during the blockade but he restored the old tariff rates and in addition levied extra duties on all imports As a result foodstuffs in large quantities rotted on the wharves of the cavara custom houses because the rates of duty imposed were so high as to be prohibitive the people within suffered from hunger while food was allowed to rot at the doors of the city as a result of blancos blancas Blan cos orders which were as cruel in their effects efferts as the famous order of weyler the record correspondent gives specific instances of corruption in the custom houses the facts were so easily learned as to that corruption on the part pant of customs officials Is a matter of everyday every day occurrence which exists in all col colonies ruled by spain the terrible debauched state of public sentiment from long expert experience ence with public officials who have little other notion of public service than an opportunity for plunder Is one of the facts with which the government of the united states must reckon when it undertakes to establish a new gov in cuba the people of the island have been so BO long used to cor that they will need a course of training in honest methods at gov before they can be trusted to rule themselves with re 4 suits I 1 I 1 there are no in on cn ba now was the information received rec elvea a short time ago it does not require one profoundly skilled in the art of deducing conclusions from circumstances to tell why they are all dead not killed in battle that would have been merciful not from famine that might have come as an inevitable out but n growth of the times not essentially orl of disease at least not contagion but of hun gerthe direst dread fullest death of all brought upon them when there was waa enough available food to at least have saved their lives what conscience soulless murderers the authors of these terrible infamies amies are |