Reconcentrados; piteous God!
The misery of want and death!
The heavens smile, the flowers nod,
The birds sing forth their limpid breath-And why?
-A. W. Thomas
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Hellraisers Journal, Monday June 27, 1898
Girard, Kansas – Poems for the People
From the Appeal to Reason of June 25, 1898:
A poem for the Cuban Reconcentrados by A. W. Thomas-
“Our Gallant Seventh” by J. K. Rudyard-
Gems for 5c or 6 for 25c: “Poems for the People”-
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SOURCE & IMAGES
Appeal to Reason
(Girard, Kansas)
-June 25, 1898
https://www.newspapers.com/image/66970637
https://www.newspapers.com/image/66970643
See also:
One-Hoss Philosophy (Magazine)
Girard KS, Wayland 1897-1906
http://www.worldcat.org/title/onehoss-philosophy/oclc/16841850
One Hoss Philosophy No. 5
= “Poems for the People”
-ed by W. F. Phelps
(Girard, Kansas)
Note: 1st AD found so far: AtR -p4, Mar 19, 1898
https://www.newspapers.com/image/66970348/
WorldCat = No. 5: Poems for the People ed by Phelps
http://www.worldcat.org/title/poems-for-the-people/oclc/32424517
Note: So far not available to read online.
One copy for sale at Amazon as of 6-27-2018:
(search books: “poems for the people” “one hoss philosophy”).
Spain’s Reconcentrado Policy in Cuba 1896-97
(The Cuban Holocaust)
http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/reconcentrado.htm
From Public Opinion of May 26, 1898
“Fate of the Reconcentrados”
“…reconcentrados are nearly all dead…”
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=Y94aAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA647
Seventh Army Corps (Spanish-American War)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventh_Army_Corps_(Spanish%E2%80%93American_War)
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