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Show ! Jusffe Our fife I veniiooioeobcxl I iii mW nn '"il''iril"ni!'l" jilljlyi'jjl n.r. 'ii.i'""vnl'",i;,n!. Si ntilsti ( .. j4t.a : tt K n r.il of Ci.i.i. i t :: K il l' hill ll the nn. i.vi.iMc inli' ' ;- .if I. ii, h. r. ' Imi. ill j Z lllVV.l III., ,llll!l..MI i 1" print Hi., nil.. of II, S. llSlllioiilll I ' In hl h lm nil, inpiK in ,, f, n,l 1,1. (-tltllK't Ullllc tl ri pl. !" lltlltU'.' Ill Uiu Hieihli-li rrimn nn Hi.it laliiiul. Ml MAMiti l l HA ' My I 'iiuiuiiinil In i "ulm i In letter nf g.ir.v nurtcl on n ,.i per it II V I.I grnjr. Whatever Hi.- motive may have been Hint ,riuiiili'il such a rhulr.'. tlrni hl.iiiily ".-.. rail h. r" uf a lino fitly symbolic the imhii nn.l Dim nrk vhl. li i Mini , I mi mimy year of discontent In f'uhn. Weyler Inn i hern nn Irhil before im 1. 1 1 u oulnlon for butchering his ' iiiciiii.b Instciul uf ) flghllt.g Hum. nnil he (laiintM In unr face Hu' ugly tntn thnt Hlinw v. here tu l,c.l off hln knife. Captain Cin.'ral of th' must f.Tlllu province nf Hpiiln ihimI a provlnrn hleh inure than once iiiuiilf,-l,-, Ii.t Intention to throw (iff tin' ll ii it r bun ynki'i. In- nwikrii siirh a rao uk-ulnst the inuilll) that buy bin eriicr an no riilion of I lm I'nlii'.l Hint.. mull llUVI" I'VIT IIIH'lll to - f m' ' A' v - ) A i r Junlly Ami rlia'a nnltu.lo In tho t'lilnin nil up Wi-ilcr him lli Ih'kI Ii.iii , I m ill In Culm li'n tho H'lMTiiiuiut of lil'i nation llnally r.'iill, ,l liltn. Thin hook K ill taiiHi- liliu lo lm riirni'il th.i l liKttl ami lirralili of tin. ,.n 1 nx i ita. "I wriiti' It.'' ! miyB. -to kIv all tlio facta bout toy 'iimlurl aa R, n.Tal In rhl.'f, ron.lurt ,linlrn, ii. it only by army oMIn'ra, hlki and low, who rotn nil lnniinii.rable Ifttvra, but 1 by privates, who, on th.lr rut urn to tho pinln- aula, aiokr nf mo with an rntbualnatlo far or for which I can never thank them enough. Varloua riUHona prcvente,l ni from ilolng ycara ago iwhrii I coulil tint havo freed my mind from a rertuln blna ) a work whlrh I can now do In p. 'rr.it pence of mln.f, tbanka to tho time thnt hna panHe.l, and which haa aoothed thr Irrllallon duo to tho Injtmtlre I miff, Ted at the hnndK of homo men. "Furthormor I did not wlah to tad.len Senor Bannbtn by r.'ielltiiK the atury of our rolonlnl dln.islirH; neither did I feel nny plennure In en urliiK tho llliiHtrloua (ien Martinet Canipoa, my prcdi i em.nr In Culm, however uuehiu llubly ho acted toward mo after IiIh return to tho capital. A peruaal of thu biHik fnlla to prove that Wey-ler Wey-ler Kept hla prmnlHe to treat the aubject with perfeet muiler.itliin; the K'-uernrri blood la atlll IhiIIIuii, unit with aoine JUHtlfliallnn, for HtriHlmiH aa hln ronduet waa In many InitaneeH, It could not very well he crltlrltcd In Spain by tho Span-IhIi Span-IhIi government, llnd Weybr I n endowed with the literary gcnliiH nf a Marliot or a !.iih Caiea, iio eou'd huvo miidi. a much alrongi r caite iikiiIiihi Kpulu and prem nted nl ow n at tli na In a much luoro favor able IlKht. I'nfiTluuntely hla knowledKu of tho writer a craft la aa dellrli nt na hla fund of Information Infor-mation touching political economy, genem! hla-lory, hla-lory, natlimul amid Internal Innnl pollllca ' la Ineager. Wi yler la not a diplomat; tho allppery land of nunncea and Innuendoa la to him terra Incognita; Incog-nita; a primitive brute, with rudltnenlnry ethlca. Ihouiih unniuchliiKly frank nud HiriilKlnforward, ho never vciiturcH an naKertlon which cannot be miipnrted l y d.icunieiita; he never paya any at tenllou to hearxay but iiuntea peoploa letiera III citeiiMO. A fu'nclnnilng type, after all, for tho obnerver bU'HKcd Willi tlio hi'Iihi of hlHtnrv; Jimt Imagine what a Wcylcr would bava developed Into If ho had not been bum nonie sou yearn too lata; clad In Kt.'il, lie bad been riding a cuparlMiiied iniiuut, or. If Ue bad been allowed to range over Kuropo luring tho Thirty Year- war! t'.eu.ral WVylcr'a "'!"' I very trying; evnn hla imiclnniiitlona vainly modeled alter Naiiolenn I. 'a oratorical genia, rarely mitind tho notu that Smakia a ieoplo or an army lliraie. Ilia rela-IIoiih rela-IIoiih of tho Cuban campaign wlib ull the facta, figures, naniea recorded In hnphaiurd fiiBhlnti day by day, Ik well nigh unreadable. Hut tho d' cumenla he iubllnli.-s In Bupiort of u hla Iheala (homo of tl of a cnlldi ntlal char- acier und which muat liavu been a-cured through ' "dlplonmtlc ineuna") muke II well worth whllo wadliiK Ihrnugli an olherwlBO dull, aluipelvaa and In.lk. btlljle piece of writing Flrt of all wo are made to realize how hope-l.hB hope-l.hB tho plight of Hie SpanlBh comnmndora had become In tho l-land when Wcylcr took thu altu-atlon altu-atlon In hand; tho muny generals who preceded i him had been losing ground from day to day; i their cable to the SpanlBh government Kttvo Information of a pessimistic character of which tho public and tlio press wore aeldom apprised; their confidential correspondence betrayed heartrending heart-rending facta; more than once poor Oen. Martinet Marti-net Campoa had humbly cuii(mbiiI hlmholf boat-en, boat-en, wlille ho cabinet led the SpanlBh nation to believe that the war waa practically over. v YVcyler HlmBolf, whn -placed 111 Qomqiand if the Cuban army, waa not even given what he waa entitled to, nn hiin.-Ht account of the situation. "When 1 landed In Cuba." ho writes, "I did nit i veil mspeoi thu lerrlblo condlt'nna that pre-vuMid pre-vuMid In lb. Island. I did not know anything jf , .,..1,11, ,., ...,l ! II boa Idea whnt the minister of war had told nie and what I had r. uil In the pa per a or In anonymoun tel. tera aenl by Spaniards living In Cuba, and I thought that all of them eiag- . Iterated the facta; I had no knowledge of the aecret document! docu-ment! have appended to 1 I I .... - . . . r T'i. 5i.V- ; Hieiti en-Mm al and k, pi th.'iu int-rie. ' ..: ,,.i ni'n.-i.i. hi i.f the SV, ii,l, I'Hii.icnt s.i, - i.cn.'r.il -.' ler "(if il... , ,,,, toot, I In- it l,,t. in .HI.-'' I ""' ' I't 1 .1' fll.' Win h 'IMd III tl,,e.. I I III le-oli .' 'I'-cl I mill. , i.-i I 1 1. i. m ,t il ii.n.ii'io ,. .m, ,.. i, nit, n 'ii- r.i, ciii',l Hi" Hi -ii.. i I I not d". ii I ti,,i .., . ,,; Uii, ..ver h.i- a Mi t:i lit,.; i I l! . I,i-t, n i t c .,. ic ii Hm,,v- t .nl II ,. cop led 1, tl,., :,::m, in H e 1l..'i Ml il, I ill lli' III Hi." I'! 1 . 1 1 f '-. a In' Halt, i , i t i.l- ,c- ,i it.ini.il 'II li'. h t.lii.i! ui le Boiii. tn . -i. nn, in i ih -ti. . mi, I, r my (ten crult-hlp. as ll hui.H na In Hi. i .i ,. i, ,.. r- war. Ihev w.-re . put In ileiilM In i, I, . , IP nee to tl I. in, an. I I .- : .ll.Ut.'li-. never lor j the lucre re, I that they Wele I- lit-. I p.il lotiel I''.""' lin i return. . I In the lol.l, and ho... i h . leineti. to all Iho-e who , lame lo me. Iiowi.t black Hun ih-i m.n li.iv.- h.-ca " It Is a mailer nl regn l tl, it ;. n- i ,ii w. i. r sb.eild tml bav deemed II a,l I Ibi.I.I" III v. hnile. I n.oie lii lonnai loii as lo the iirgalilatlon nf the coticelilt.KiMi i .nep-. II. mo. that one pound of meal an I a .ii.irt. r of a p. ui,, i t nee .re allowed to enT.v ludlvl.lual over folirleel I one half Holt tatloli lo . lill.lr. 11. Ihlt boolf. How gloomy the outlook waa la act forth graphically In a conildeuilul letter from (.en. Martliin Campoa to Cunovoa did Caallllo. prlmo minister of Spain. "... Although from thu very flmt I reallied the gravity of tho situation. I refused lo believe It; my visits In Cubu. I'rlnclpe and llol-gin llol-gin appalled me; however, In order not to appear licBsliulsilc, I lid not express all my thought, and I decided to visit not only the mnrltlino communl-tles, communl-tles, hut the towns In the lull rlor. The f"W Span-lards Span-lards who live In the Island do not daro to mention men-tion their origin except In the cities. The real of the population hates Spain Wherever you pass a farm and ask the woiiimi where their husbands are. they answer with I. rrlfylng friinknesa: 'In the ninuutnliiB with Chief So and Ho' "Vnu colli, I not Ket anyone to carry a message for film nor l.Ooo pesetas; he would bo hanged If he Were ever I might. . . , " The r.-hflB who charged Wcylcr with wanton cruelty aeldom restrained Iheinhelvea from accnm-pHshlng accnm-pHshlng deeds of vlolenco likely to terrorize the few remaining supporters of tin. Spanish rule. To guide Weyler; "The Insurgeuta did not return In any way the considerate treatment nccorded to I hem by this geueioiia commander Murtluc Campos). At the beginning of the war Mnnlmo limnei showed himself him-self very fair; hut Mnoco, as I shall prove by authentic au-thentic dor nis, ordeied bin bauds to act lire to all the sugar mills whose owm ra were not paying pay-ing war intuitu, to plunder und loot the country, to shoot miTcllcsaly all the messengers, men caught repulrlng railroad lines or bringing provisions pro-visions Into the villages Worse yet; The Insurgent Insur-gent chl' fa did tint hesliat- lo kill with their own wonpona defenseless Islanders, and .Maximo tinnier. tin-nier. In his .Mcinolns' ci.nfessea to having shot personally a man he had sentence,! to death, a deed which I call willful murder. And still that Individual pro-iniii s to call me 'assassin.'" As his iiuilinrliy for the foregoing statement tl. n. nil Weyler not only ipiolcs extracts from the Cuban paiora. but appends a prucluinallou of Muceo. tiiiini t's lieutenant, to hla ban, Is. "Comrades In Anns: Destroy, destroy everything, every-thing, day and night; to blow up bridges, Ui derail trulns. to burn up villages and sugar mills, to h n ii I Ii 1 1 ii l Culm Is the only way to defeat our enemies. ene-mies. Wo have not to iicciuinl for our conduct to anyone, lilplouincy, public opinion and history don't matter. It would ln sheer Insanity to seek the laurels of the baitlcfl.'ld. to bear tlio tiro of the enemy 'a urlllli ry and coutrlbuto to the glory uf tlio Spanish commaiiilerH. The essential thing la lo convince Spain that Cuba will be but a heup of ruins. What compensation will she, receive then for the sucritlco entailed by the rnmpulKn? We must burn and rami everything. It would be folly to fight as though we were an Huropean army. Whero rlllea are of no avail let dynamite do the work. A. MACKO." .... ,Tlii,iiply way to subdue such bloodthirsty, des- perutu pirates was to adopt their own ladles. The Insurgents, of their own admission, never gave nor acreptod buttlo, but harassed the regulura and destroyed their sources of supply.. "Concentration" "Concentra-tion" seemed to be the only solution of the problem, prob-lem, for the wives and children of the Insurgents llllh.lellt under the , II, 11,1,-t.ili, '-:. A few pi.riiKiapli". .wcer. cue I III Ills blunt, soldierly sill,-, selling III tmilKhl Ibe l.rrlble chali'.es preferred an.iiiisi him In con nictmii with thai si. tii sv -t. in uf war tat, wool. I have t i Interesting. hut Ih.'V were lack Inn Ills silence llllioilllls III II lies si, -II of BUI i I He makes a weak at tempt ill explaining Hint Hie wiles and children nt lu-ur l-.eiils were not "con r.nirat.d." but obliged to betuUe Iheliiselles w here the head of the fain 111 was supposed l l be fnuml Tills Is worse .let, for one call conceive the lip pulling iihu'. s which such uu order etna nailng from the gen rral In chief must have countenanced and Justllled. Aa the revolutionary bands Were c o ti a t a n 1 1 y moving from east to west and from weal tu oust and rould not be located with any ceriulnly, what an existence must have been Hint of "families whoso nion wore not aervlng In the ranks uf tho regular army. Hefused army rations, nun polled to roam from one devastated village to a burnt down hamlet, they could nut but succumb to hunger and exhaustion ll,i,l Weyler been less brutally Inmost, he would lisvo omitted such a damaging admission I'p lo this day w have hud Ismks of mini) kinds .haling wllh tho Cuban war, pamphlets put foiih by the Insurgents and uuiurliuisly unfair lo Spain; Spanish publications which uilsrcpro s.'liled gnwslv tho altitude of the rtllled Slalos; ariii'li-s la Kuroncan newspapers almost uiianl mously censuring the Americans fur "robbing" Spain .,( her colony. Now. however, we hnve the facts presented almost without any comments ami certainly with out i nilH'lllsliuii'iit by a Spaniard who loves his country ami frunkly detests tint Americans One., or twice he registers a protest against tho si title's decision cincernliig the recognition of belli, uorcy or tlio campaign of .l. faniallnu dlrtctc'l against him In American papers. lie mitiptuliis that In March. IS'iil. when he had the situation well under control, the senate of the ('lilted Statoa Interfered most uulalrly. for II rerugniied the belligerency of the Insurgents, thereby (living them new courage. This Is lest convincing than the majority nl bis arg enla, for If wo compare .lutes we ll n I letters in which he admits his failure to slop the pingroBi of ibo Insurrection Ills gravest charge ugallisl the I'liltcl States Is coiiiiiitie.l In tin. following paragraph, which Is loo v., huh to be taken its seriously as some oilier statements of hla: "Tin. I'liltcl States were against everything that would bring about a termination of the war -American chitons held several millions worth nf Cuban bunds, Issued with the provision Hun Hie Island would pass nn, ler the domination of Hie I iille.l Siatea ten years after ciihu would have separate! herself frotii Spain. Tim Yankees saw that Willi the pacu I set tho much longed for Inde peiid.-nce of Cuba and Its corollarv, Hie aniiexa Hon tli.T.-of, was becoming a more and more r.. mote possibility, lint t.rp ,, r,.M u,y the peninsula should ,UVI, ri,hi', all the go ip which I'lkiuutud In America." inn nn iho whole tho picture his letters ;,--l reports, us well as the letters of Martinet l am pos be publishes, present to our eies of Cuba in the y.ars preceding tin, Malm. Incl.loiit would have Jiisllllcl y ,mt,,i,, near or remote, In Inter venlng for tho sako of humanity; u population unanimous In ti ll(,h)r() fl)(. lM,..pch.l, nee- a bloody war which could only bad to an ephemeral ephem-eral peace and al best would have left the Island a droari waste fr yr to come; Hie rights of foreign land owners and Investors tiam I uu der foot; all this horror had to bo stopped Spain did not lose Cuba as a conscpience of the war will, , ,,,, , ,,. iiilss on of Spain's military representatives I,, thai lll foted colony, t'ulm whs Irretrievably lost K. Spain In IM17, and the fow Spaniards residing In . T '?Wn 1119 "'- ' abode for them fidt thomselvei . despised, ostracised inluurllv |