Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1897 — SPAIN'S HELLISH TORTURE. [ARTICLE]

SPAIN'S HELLISH TORTURE.

.Skinned Men Alive to Make Execution Drama. The methods by which Spain conducts “warfare” lu Cuba and the Philippine Islands are more or leas familiar to ‘Jlobe readers, owing to the account* so often appearing In this paper; and we now give an account, taken from Motley’s Rise of the Dutch Republic, of her manner of conducting war In the Netherlands 300 years ago. It will be seen at a glance that much of her bar barlsm and Inhuman cruelty still re main with her. Says Motley: “No mode In which liftman beings have ever caused their fellow creatures to suffer was omitted from dally practice. Men, women and children, old uud young, nobles and paupers, opulent burghers, hospital pa tlents. lunatics, dead bodies, all were Indiscriminately made to furnish food for the scaffold and the stake. Men were tortured, In-headed, hanged by the neck and by the legs, burned befon slow tires, pinched to death with redlio. tongs, broken uponthe wheel, starved uud Hayed alive. Is||r skins, stripped from the living body, Were stretched upon drums to be beaten In the march of their brethren to the gallows. The additional barbarities committed during the sack and ruin of those blazing and starving cities are almost beyond be lief, and whole populations were burn ed and hacked to pieces by soldiers n every mode which cruelty in Its wanton Ingenuity could devise. Such was tin administration of which Vargas (a tin ble Spaniard in high authority) affirm ed that too much mercy had been Its ruin.”