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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...
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Ingalls, John James, 1833-1900
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Publisher: New York, Thompson
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an anything else, would sustain them in a war of nations.This pride of race, however, is not what they would fight for. Out of theruins of their past greatness have risen beautiful monuments—Madrid, thecapital city, with its palaces and its 470,000 worshipers of the ancient throne;Barcelona, with its quarter of a million, mostly eager for war, and blind to 68 AMERICAS WAR FOR HUMANITY. all but its romance; Malaga, with its 100,000, who daily have the remains ofMoors to teach them what manner of fighters were their ancestors; Carta-gena, Cadiz, Valencia, Seville, and Grenada, where memory stops, and thegrotesques and arabesques of the great Moorish temple lift one out of thenineteenth century and carry one back to the time when war in Spain meanthonor, valor and glory. Spain will lose in the Philippines a greater possession than Cuba. Thegroup of islands numbers over six hundred, and the largest contains 40,000square miles. Four months of rain give the tropical vegetation great luxu-
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MUSKET DRIIvL ON BOARD SPANISH WARSHIP. riance, and trees three hundred feet high are common. The population is7,000,000, embracing two hundred tribes, some of which, in the interior, arein a state of naked savagery and have never been visited by white men.Poverty is almost universal among the natives, whose wages are seldom morethan five cents a day. Yet the Spanish exact from all who can be reached,from $1.50 to $25 for a document of personal identification. A horde ofSpanish officials are maintained in all the ports, and they are even more cor-rupt than in Cuba. A Spanish Governor expects to make a fortune in twoyears. One of the sources of his income is money paid by brigands fortoleration. FACTS ABOUT SPAIN. 59 Spanish taxes in the Philippines are laid on cocoanut trees, beasts ofburden, slaughtered animals, machinery of all kinds, weights and measures,the simple amusements of the natives, and on innumerable other things.Delinquent taxpayers, women included, are tied to a post an

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