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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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onscious pride of having donehis duty. It is hardly to be expected that good men or good soldiers will be pro-duced by treatment that would shame a self-respecting beast and make it feelits degradation. Spains conduct toward her soldiers and sailors is exasperat-ing to the last degree. They are hardly recognized as human beings, andthe idea that they are men, and entitled to consideration as such, seems notto be entertained by those who are placed in authority over them. Spanish sailors forward are ill treated habitually by their officers. Thisis not a prejudiced or an exaggerated statement. It is literally true. Theofficers of the Spanish navy are for the most part younger sons of good fami-lies who have gained their billets, not by ability nor through competition,but through the intercession of their people at the court. The incapacity ofmany of them is laughable; their cruelty is notorious. From the very daythat a Spaniard is enlisted in the ships company of one of his countrys war
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430 AMERICAS WAR FOR HUMANITY. vessels—enlisted voluntarily or involuntarily—he is made to feel that he isno better than a beast. For the slightest infraction of regulations he is pun-ished in a fashion that makes his fellow bluejackets in navies like our ownor that of Great Britain flush with anger. The central and consuming ideaof the Spanish naval officer is that all hands forward are his servants. Thereis absolutely nothing of this in the American navy. Once in a while, whenan American ship is at sea for a considerable period in tropical waters, andall hands, fore and aft, are wearing white uniforms, an officer will pay a messattendant for scrubbing one of his uniforms and hanging it out on the scrub-and-wash-line. The officer who requests a man to do anything like thisstands by to have the man refuse. It is the mans privilege to refuse out-right to perform such a task for money or otherwise; but, if he accepts thejob, he is well paid for it. In the Spanish navy, every man for

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