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Title: America's war for humanity related in story and picture, embracing a complete history of Cuba's struggle for liberty, and the glorious heroism of America's soldiers and sailors
Year: 1898 (1890s)
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Subjects: Spanish-American War, 1898
Publisher: New York, St. Louis, N.D. Thompson Publishing Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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inflicted on prisoners quite as barbarousas those to which the Spanish guerrillas subjected the French troops ofNapoleon in the early part of this century. If, then, the Spaniards accord such treatment to their own countrymenand women, to their own kinsfolk and nearest relatives, how is it possible tobe surprised that the) should have resorted to their usual practices in dealingwith the dead bodies of a foe whom they have been taught from childhood tohate with such intensity as the Americans? And it may be seriously asked, if this war should last long enough, andopportunity be afforded for the perpetration of such brutalities as thosedescribed by this intelligent writer, what would be the effect upon theAmerican people? Suppose a Spanish fleet should land at some undefendedtown, and the men be permitted to outrage the women and afterward murderand mutilate them, what would the American people do? Would they notrise as one man, and seizing all the ships they could lay their hands upon,
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408 AMERICAS WAR FOR HUMANITY. go in one immense body of infuriated and desperate avengers, and wipe theabominable bull-fighting Spanish nation off the face of the earth? The same intelligent writer quoted above seeks to find a cause for thissingular trait of excessive brutality in the Spanish character. He says: There are but few Western nations who are given to this form of sav-agery, and it is noteworthy that in each case it is where the people have astrain of Oriental blood in their veins. The Orientals, with the sole exception of the Japanese, invariablymutilate the dead foe, and often the living one as well. It is not a matter somuch of creed as of race, for the Christian Abyssinians are just as guilty ofthis cruelty as the Chinese, the Malays, the Afghans, and the Moors. It isfrom their Moorish ancestors that the Spaniards have undoubtedly inheritedthis peculiarly Oriental practice, which is likewise in vogue among theSicilians, who have much Saracen blood in their veins. True,

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