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Show H DIAZ'S CAMPAIGN OF MURDER. H When Weyler started on his campaign of extermination in Cuba, fl resolved to make a wilderness of peace, the American people called: H , 'f nim "butcher," and as a direct result of the merciless order to kill B" -' and crush, the American sense of justice was so aroused that when H ' the Maine was blown up war was unavoidable. H Is Diaz about to repeat Weyler 's mistake? Were the American; H soldiers hurried to the frontier in anticipation of just such ai H drastic, unjustifiable policy of extermination? !If Diaz begins to slay innocent men. women and children, or, worse still, if he holds the women and children of insurrectos incom- m municado as an act of revenge and in order to starve them to death, H jj then the next move of the American troops will be southward along H the route followed by General Scott and his heroic soldiers in 1846. Cuba became free because Spain, by its barbarities, proved un- H worthy of respect as a colonial government; Mexico, by the same H brutal disregard of human rights and by the inflicting of the 3ame H outrages, may likewise forfeit its claim to longer rule over a people, Hr I and what would be more in harmony with American history than for j H j the men carrying the Stars and Stripes to put an end to the false pre- H tense? H ' The declaration of martial law in Mexico may be directed in H part against Americans in Mexico. It would satisfy popular clamor H ' in that republic, presided over by a dictator, to slaughter a liberal' H t' number of Americans while exterminating the rebels, their women H and children. H , When the new order is in full force and effect, we may expect H i ' to hear of whole communities in the disaffected districts of Mexico H i being Weylerized. |