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 . en to the words of the chaplain. Another feature of the Spanish navys punitive system is the solitary andfish infliction. This consists in locking up a minor offender in anunlightedand practically unventilated compartment, and in feeding him upon salt fishand no water whatsoever for a couple of days at a stretch. Men who sufferthis ordeal have always to be lifted out of their place of confinement when it isover, with
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 . en to the words of the chaplain. Another feature of the Spanish navys punitive system is the solitary andfish infliction. This consists in locking up a minor offender in anunlightedand practically unventilated compartment, and in feeding him upon salt fishand no water whatsoever for a couple of days at a stretch. Men who sufferthis ordeal have always to be lifted out of their place of confinement when it isover, with their swollen tongues hanging out of their mouths from thirst; 432 AMERICAS WAR FOR HUMANITY and men have been taken out of the glory hole dead after undergoing thisbarbarity. The wonder is truly not great that a slumbering devil of bitter-ness seems always to look from the eyes of the Spanish man forward. Conditions create men and make heroes; and the difference in the manlyand heroic qualities of the American and Spanish soldiers and sailors pre-cisely represents the difference in the conditions under which they are rearedand by which they are environed throughout HOMES OF THE COMMON PEOPLE OF HAVANA, REPRESENTING THE CONDITIONS UNDER WHICHTHEY ARE REARED. (From a Photograph.) What Makes Soldiers Brave in natural animal instinct of self-preservation will of course influenceall soldiers in battle; but the history of nations and their struggles forsupremacy prove beyond question that freemen fighting for liberty willalways make better and braver soldiers than the best drilled armies fightingfor a cause that does not appeal to the hearts and patriotism of the individ-uals composing such armies. FIRST AMERICAN INVASION OF CUBA. 433 The question of the comparative proportion of really brave men in anyarmy will probably never be determined. Great officers on the continentkeep their knowledge on that subject rigorously as a professional secret, andassume as a certa
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