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NO CMS IN SOI
COLONEL GEORGE HARVEY SAYS
COUNTRY ALL RIGHT.
THE WRITER SEES NO CLOUD
Striking Article In North American
Review That Is Attracting Wide
Attention.
The attention of business and pro
fessional men in all portions of the
country has been attracted to a strik
ingly strong article by Col. George
Harvey in the September issue of the
North American Review in which the
writer takes a view of the greatest
hopefulness for the future of America
and Americans. The article is en
titled “A Plea for the Conservation of
Common Sense,” and it is meeting
with the cordial approval of business
pen of all shades of political opinion
throughout the entire country. In
part, Colonel Harvey says:
“Unquestionably a spirit of unrest
dor-inates the land. But, if It be
true that fundamentally the condition
of the country is sound, must we
necessarily succumb to despondency,
abandon effort looking to retrieval
and cringe like cravens before clouds
that only threaten? Rather ought
we not to analyze conditions, search
for causes, find the root of the dis
tress, which even now exists only in
men’s minds, and then, after the
American fashion, apply such rem
edies as seems most likely to produce
beneficent results?
Capital and Labor Not Antagonistic.
“The Link that connects labor with
capital is not broken but we may not
deny that it is less cohesive than it
should be or t&an conditions war
rant. Financially, the country is
stronger than ever before in its his
tory. Recovery from a panid so
severe as that of three years ago was
never before so prompt and compara
tively complete. The masses are
practically free from debt. Money is
held by the banks in abundance and
rates are lew.
“Why, then, does capital pause
upon the threshold of investment?
The answer, we believe, to be plain.
It awaits adjustment of the relations
of government to business. ♦ • * The
sole problem consists of determining
how government can maintain an
even balance between aggregations
of interests, on the one hand, and the
whole people, on the other, protect
ing the latter against extortion and
saving the former from mad assaults.
“The solution is not easy to find
for the simple reason that the situ
ation is without precedent. But is
not progress being made along sane
ahd cautious lines? ♦ * ♦
Conserve Common Sense.
"Is not the present, as we have
Been, exceptionally secure? What,
then, of preparations for the future?
Patriotism is the basis of oftr insti
tutions. And patriotism in the minds
of our youth is no longer linked solely
with fireworks and deeds of daring. It
Is taught in our schools. A new
course has been added —a course in
loyalty. Methodically, our children
learn how to vote, how to conduct
primaries, conventions and elections,
how to discriminate between qualifica
tions of candidates and, finally, how
to govern as well as serve. They are
taught to despise bribery and all
forms of corruption and fraud as
treason. Their creed, which they are
made to know by heart, is not com
plex. It is simple, but comprehen-
Blve, no less beautiful in diction than
lofty in aspiration. These are the
pledges which are graven upon their
memories:
“As it is cowardly for a soldier to
run away from battle, so it is coward
ly for any citizen not to contribute
his share to the well-being of his
country. America is my own dear
land; she nourishes me, and I will
love her and do my duty to her,
whose child, servant and civil soldier
I am.
"As the health and happiness of
my body depend upon each muscle
and nerve and drop of blood doing
its work in its place, so the health
and happiness of my country depend
upon each citizen doing his work in
his place.
“These young citizens are our
hostages to fortune. Can we not
safely assume that the principles ani
mating their lives augur well for the
permanency of the Republic? When
before have the foundation stones
of continuance been laid with such
care and promise of durability?
“The future, then, is bright. And
the present? But one thing is need
ful. No present movement is more
laudable than that which looks to
conservation of natural resources.
But let us never forget that the great
est inherent resource of the Amer
ican people is Common Sense. Let
that be conserved and applied with
out cessation, and soon it will be
found that all the ills of which we
complain but know not of are only
such as attend upon the growing
pains of a great and blessed country.
He Knows the Game.
According to the Metropolitan Meg
azine, Fire Chief John Conway of Jer
sey City, ha solved the baseball ex
cuse question by the posting of the
following printed notice on his desk
at fire headquarters:
“All requests for leave of absence
owing to grandmothers’ funerals, lame
back, house cleaning, moving, sore
throat, headache, brainstorm, cousins’
wedding, general indisposition, etc.,
must be handed to the chief not later
tHau-ten o’clock on the morning of the
game."
ITH an unpardonable
lack of tact dr a grew
some attempt at a
sinister piece of hu
mor, Gen. Valeriane
Weyler, the former
Spanish captain gen
eral of Cuba, who
gained for himself
the unenviable title
of “bjfcher,” has al
lowed the publishers
to print the title of
the sensational book
In which he attempts to defend his
conduct while the representative of
the Spanish crown on that island,
MI MANDO EN CUBA
(My Command in Cuba)
In letters of gory scarlet on a pa
per of livid gray.
Whatever the motive may have
been that prompted such a choice,
that bloody “eye catcher” of a line
fitly symbolizes the man and the
work which caused so many years
of discontent in Cuba. Weyler has
been on trial before public opinion
for butchering his
enemies instead of
fighting them; and
he flaunts in our
faces the ugly stains
that show w’here he
wiped off his knife.
* Captain General
of the most fertile
province of Spain
(and a province
which more than
once manifested her
Intention to throw
off the Bourbon
yoke), he makes
such a case against
the country that
buys his services as
no citizen of the
United States could
have ever made to
Justify America’s attitude in the Cuban mlx-up.
Weyler was the best hated man in Cuba when
the government of his nation finally recalled him.
This book will cause him to be cursed the length
and breadth of the peninsula.
"I wrote it,” he says, “to give all the facts
about my conduct as general in chief, a conduct
admired not only by army officers, high and
low, who wrote me innumerable letters, but
by privates, who, on their return to the penin
sula, spoke of me with an enthusiastic fer
vor for which I can never thank them enough.
Various reasons prevented me from doing years
afeo (when I could not have freed my mind
from a certain bias) a work which I can now
do in perfect peace of mind, thanks to the
time that has passed, and which has soothed
the irritation due to the Injustice I suffered at
the hands of some men. ,
"Furthermore I did not wish to sadden Senor
Sagasta by retelling the story of our colonial
disasters; neither did I feel any pleasure in cen
suring the illustrious Gen. Martinex Campos, my
predecessor In Cuba, however uncharitably he
acted toward me after his return to the capital.”
A perussfl of the book fails to prove that Wey
ler kept his promise to treat the subject with
perfect moderation; the general's blood is still
boiling, and with some justification, for atrocious
as his conduct was in many instances, it could
not very well be criticized in Spain by the Span
ish government.
Had Weyler been endowed with the literary
genius of a Marbot or a Las Cazes, he could have
made a much stronger case against Spain and
presented his'own actions in a much more favor
able light. Unfortunately his knowledge of the
writer’s craft is as deficient as his fund of infor
mation touching! political economy, general his
tory, national anad international politics is
meager.
Weyler is not a diplomat; the slippery land
of nuances and innuendos is to him terra incog
nita; a primitive brute, with rudimentary ethics,
though unflinchingly frank and straightforward,
he never ventures an assertion which cannot be
supported by documents; he never pays any at
tention to hearsay but quotes people’s letters in
extenso.
A fascinating type, after all, for the observer
blessed with the sense of history; just imagine
what a Weyler would have developed into if he
had not been born some 500 years too late; clad
In steel, he had been riding a caparisoned mount,
or, if he had been allowed to rangd over Europe
during the Thirty Years’ war!
General Weyler's style is very trying; even
his proclamations vainly modeled after Napoleon
I.’s oratorical gems, rarely sound the note that
makes a people or an army vibrate. His rela
tions of the Cuban campaign with all the facts,
figures, names recorded in haphazard fashion
day by day, is well nigh unreadable.
But the documents he publishes in support of
his thesis (some of them of a confidential char
acter and which must have been secured through
“diplomatic means”) make it well worth while
wading through an otherwise dull, shapeless and
indigestible piece of writing.
First of all we are made to realize how hope
less the plight of the Spanish commanders had
become in the island when Weyler took the situ
ation in hand; the many generals who preceded
him had been losing ground from day to day;
their cables to the Spanish government gave
Information of a pessimistic character of which
the public and the press were seldom apprised;
their confidential correspondence betrayed heart
rending facts; more than once poor Gen. Marti
nez Campos had humbly confessed himself beat
en, while the cabinet led the Spanish nation to
believe that the war was practically over.
Weyler himself, when placed in command of
the Cuban army, was not even given what he was
entitled to, an honest account of the situation.
"When I landed in Cuba,” he writes, "I did
not even suspect.the terrible conditions that pre
vailed in the island. I did not know anything
besides what
the minister of
war had told
me and what I
had read in the
papers or in
anonymous let
ters sent by
Spaniards living
in Cuba, and I
thought that all
of them exag
gerated the
facts; I had no
.knowledge of
the secret docu
ments I have
appended to
is book. How gloomy the outlook was is set
01 h graphically in a confidential letter from
Gen. Martinez Campos to Canovas del Castillo,
prime minister of Spain.
• . . Although from the very first 1
realized the gravity of the situation, I refused to
believe it; my visits in Cuba, Principe and Hol.
gin appalled me; however, in order not to appear
pessimistic, I did not express all my thoughts, and
I decided to visit not only the maritime communi.
ties, but the towns in the interior. The few Span
iards who live in the island do not dare to men
tion their origin except in the cities. The rest
of the population hates Spain. Wherever you pass
a farm and ask the women where their husbands
are, they answer with terrifying frankness: Tn
the mountains with Chief So and So.’
“You could not get anyone to carry a message
for 500 nor 1,000 pesetas; he would be hanged if
he were ever caught. ...”
The rebels who charged Weyler with wanton
cruelty seldom restrained themselves from accom
plishing deeds of violence likely to terrorize the
few remaining supporters of the Spanish rule. To
quote Weyler:
“The insurgents did not return in any way the
considerate treatment accorded to them by this
generous commander (Martinez Campos). At the
beginning of the war Maximo Gomez showed him
self very fair; but Maceo, as 1 shall prove by au
thentic documents, ordered his bands to set fire
to ail the sugar mills whose owners were not pay
ing war tribute, to plunder and loot the country,
to shoot mercilessly all the messengers, men
caught repairing railroad lines or bringing pro
visions into the villages. Worse yet: The insur
gent chiefs did not hesitate to kill with their own
weapons defenseless islanders,, and Maximo Go
mez in his ‘Memoires’ confesses to having shot
personally a man he had sentenced to death, a
deed which I call willful murder. And still that
individual presumes to call me ‘assassin.’ ”
As his authority for the foregoing statement
General "Weyler not only quotes extracts from the
Cuban papers, but appends a proclamation of
Maceo, Gomez’s lieutenant, to his bands.
“Comrades in Arms: Destroy, destroy every
thing, day and night; to blow up bridges, to derail
trains, to burn up villages and sugar mills, to
annihilate Cuba is the only way to defeat pur ene
mies. We have not to account for our conduct
to anyone. Diplomacy, public opinion and history
don’t matter. It would be sheer insanity to seek
the laurels of the battlefield, to bear the fire of
the enemy’s artillery and contribute to the glory
of the Spanish commanders. The essential thing
is to convince Spain that Cuba will be but a heap
of ruins. What compensation will she receive
then for the sacrifice entailed by the campaign?
We must, burn and raze everything. It would be
folly to fight as though we were an European
army. Where rifles are of no avail let dynamite
do the work. A. MACEO.”
The only way to subdue such bloodthirsty, des
perate pirates was to adopt their own tactics. The
insurgents, of their own admission, never gave
nor accepted battle, but harassed the regulars and
destroyed their sources of supply. “Concentra
tion” seemed to be the only solution of the prob
lem, for the wives and children of the insurgents
gave them constant aid and kept them Informed
" of every movement of the Spanish regiments.
Says General Weyler:
“Os all the measures I took the most bitterly crltlslzed was the
‘concentration,’ which saved my troops from being* uselessly deci
mated and prevented the landing of arms and munitions consigned
to the enemy. I need not defend that system. Whoever has a
smattering of the history of modern wars knows that it was cop
ied by the English in the Transvaal and the Americans in the
Philippines, a fact most flattering to my pride as a general.
“If Individuals were sometimes summarily shot under my gen
eralship, as it happens in the course of every war, they were
put to death in obedience to the laws and regulations, never for
the mere reason that they were insurgents. I pardoned those who
returned to the fold, and showed much clemency to all those who
came to me, however black their past may have been.”
It is a matter of regret that General Weyler should not have
deemed it advisable to volunteer more information as to the
organization of the concentration camps. He says that one pound
of meat and a quarter of a pound of rice were allowed to every
individual over fourteen, and one-half that ration to children,
which seems quite
families whose men were not serving in the ranks
of the regular army. Refused army rations, com
pelled to roam from one devastated village to
a burnt down hamlet, they could not but succumb
to hunger and exhaustion.
Had Weyler been less brutally honest, he
would have omitted such a damaging admission.
Up to this day we have had books of many
kinds dealing with the Cuban war; pamphlets
put forth by the insurgents and notoriously unfair
to Spain; Spanish publications which misrepre
sented grossly the attitude of the United States;
articles in European newspapers almost unani
mously censuring the Americans for “robbing”
Spain of her colony.
Now, however, we have the facts presented
almost without any comments and certainly with
out embellishment by a Spaniard who loves his
country and frankly detests the Americans.
Once or twice he registers a protest against
the senate’s decision concerning the recognition
of belligenercy or the campaign of defamation
directed against him in American papers.
He complains that in March, 1896, when he
bad the situation well under control, the senate
of the United States interfered most unfairly, for
it recognized the belligerency of the insurgents,
thereby giving them new courage.
This is less convincing than the majority of
his arguments, for if we compare dates we find
letters in which he admits his failure to stop the
progress of the insurrection.
His gravest charge against the United States
is contained in the following paragraph, which
is too vague to be taken as seriously as some
other statements of his:
“The United States were against everything
that would bring about a termination of the war—
American citizens held several millions worth of
Cuban bonds, issued with the provision that the
island would pass under the domination of the
United States ten years after Cuba would have
separated herself from Spain. The Yankees saw
that with the pace I set the much-longed-for inde
pendence of Cuba and its corollary, the annexa
tion thereof, was becoming a more and more re
mote possibility. But there was no reason why
the peninsula should have robbed all the gossip
which originated in America.”
But’ on the whole the picture his letters and
reports, as well as the letters of Martinez Cam
pos he publishes,"present to our eyes of Cuba in
the years preceding the Maine incident would
have justified any nation, near or remote, in inter
vening for the sake of humanity; a population
unanimous in its desire for independence; a
bloody war which could only lead to an ephem
eral peace and at best would have left the island
a dreary waste for years to come; the rights of
foreign land owners and Investors trampled un
der foot; all this horror had to be stopped.
Spain did not lose Cuba as a consequence of
the war with the United States; by the very ad
mission of Spain’s military representatives in that
ill-fated colony, Cuba was irretrievably lost to
Spain in 1897, and the few Spaniards residing in
the coast towns, the only safe abode for them,
felt themselves a despised, ostracised minority
sufficient under the
circumstances. A
few paragraphs,
however, couched in
his blunt, soldierly
style, setting at
naught the terrible
charges, preferred
against’ him in con
nection with that
stern system of war
fare would h*a v e
been interesting,
but they were lack
ing. His silence
amounts to a confes
sion of guilt. He
makes a weak at
* tempt at' explaining
that the wives and
children of insur
gents were not “con
centrated,” 'but
obliged to betake
themselves where
the head of the fam
ily was supposed to
be found. This Is
worse yet, for one
can conceive the ap
palling abuses which
such an order ema
nating from the gen
eral in chief must
have countenanced
and justified. As the
revolutionary bands
were constantly
moving from east to
west and from west
to east and could
not be located with
any certainty, what
an existence must
have been that of
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shall recommend them to any one suffer
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WARNING THAT WAS FAMILIAR
Grocer Man Used Formula That 'lade
Little Harry Long to Be
Far Away.
Mrs. Jones’ favorite warning to her
young progeny, when they were in mis
chief was that she would tend to them
In a minute. “Tending” was accom
plished by applying her open hand
where it would do most good. When
Harry was four years old he was sent
for the first time round the corfier to
the grocery. In a few minutes he came
trotting soberly back with the nickel
still in his hand, but no bag of onions.
“What's the matter?” asked his
mother.
“I’m ’fraid of the man,” he said, sol
emnly.
“Oh, he won't hurt you,” reassured
Mrs. Jones. “Run along and bring the
onions. I’m in a hurry for them.”
A second time Harry disappeared
round^fhe corner, and a second time
returned without his purchase.
“I'm ’fraid of the grocer man,” he
explained, as before.
“Well, what makes you afraid of
him?” demanded his mother, impa
tiently.
“Why,” answered the little fellow,
“bofe times when I goed in, he looked
at me, an’ said, Til tend to you in a
minute.’ ’’—-Youth’s Companion.
Someone Might Get Hurt.
Pietro had drifted to Florida and
was working with a gang a^ railroad
construction. He had been told to
beware of rattlesnakes, but assured
that they would always give th®
warning rattle before striking.
One hot day he was eating his noon
luncheon on a pine log when he saw
a big rattler coiled a few feet in front
of him. He eyed the serpent and be
gan to lift his legs over the log. He
had barely ‘got them out of the way
when the snake’s fangs hit the bark
beneath him.
“Son of a guna!” yelled Pietro.
“Why you no ringa da bell?”—Every
body's Magazine.
Gambling in Insurance.
The Britisher’s favorite gambling is
Insurance gambling. He will take
out a policy against anything from the
death of the king to the loss of a
horse race by a thoroughbred. Ma
rine insurance gambling by those who
have no direct interest in the safety
of a ship or its cargo grew into such
abuses that parliament has been com
pelled to pass a drastic act to prevent
such gambling on marine accidents
and losses by those not otherwise con
cerned. —New York Press.
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