Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1898 — THURSTON FOR INTERVENTION. [ARTICLE]

THURSTON FOR INTERVENTION.

It Is, the Senator Says, the Only Solution of the Cuban Trouble. “If the time for the intervention of the United States in the affairs of Cuba is not here now, it never will come,” said Senator Thurston to a reporter. The Senator says that the only solution of the trouble is such intervention, unless the people of the United States are willing to look on and see the work of starvation, already so far advanced, completed. The reconcentrados are absolutely without hope, and if the death lists in any part of the island are decreasing it is only because the material for starvation to work upon is giving out. All that the reconcentrados can now do, with their homes and implements destroyed by fire, their little farms devastated and growing in weeds, their stock driven off to furnish food for the Spanish soldiers, and themselves emaciated and diseased, is to remain in their pens with a look of quiet despair and take the little food that they can get, sent by the charity of the United States. It is perfectly true, says the Senator, that the insurgents practically have the whole island. All that the Spanish hold is Havana, and even while the congressional party was there there was fighting in the suburbs of that city. Senator Thurston was asked what effect intervention would have.in increasing the volume of the insurgent movement. He said that it would have some effect in that direction, for then the Cubans generally would rise and declare themselves.