Show MARTI SENDS 4 SENDSA A MESSAGE p 5aysCuba Will Soon Be a Rep Re-p bHc Like America Amer-ica j FIFTY THOUSAND ARMED THEY WILL MARCH UXDER TIlE A FIVE BARRfiD FLAG They Will Come at the Signal From the United States From Mexico I Prom Central and South America Mnrtis Great Plan 1 Written for The Herald Vera GUZ Mexico March 2TeII the American people for me that Cuba will soon greet them as a sister republic repub-lic and that the fivebarred flag will float over the citadels of the Island I I Queen of the West Indies i With these words on his lips Jose I Marti the civil leader and president I r of the Cuban revolutionary party has Just left me Whither hp is going i know not but I believe his island birth 1 i place will find hm its Bolivar before many months have passed Jose Marti Mar-ti today gave me more information concerning the cause of the revolutionists revolution-ists than he has yet imparted to anyone any-one outside of his immediate partisans He is 2 man of splendid capacities his face is one of fine expression and every feature seems to reveal the innate in-nate honesty and honor of the man There is a tinge of gray in his hair and yet he is a young man But twenty twen-ty years of constant effort in behalf of his country have furrowed deep lines in his countenance and have j > laced the marks oLcare on every lineament We expect he said that many false reports will be transmitted to the cities of the United States We expect ex-pect that Spanish emmissaries will attempt to arouse public feeling against us in New York and elsewhere else-where I ask of the American people T i j i i TI1E ILND1P ltEl3EbMATiGtS r I I to trust and to aid us at least with I their sympathies Our Is such a cause as Americans once bled for in i I a fearful war against an overwhelming overwhelm-ing and resentful tyrant We have fought long and ardently for freedom and we now look forward with more i hope than ever to the successful con i elusion of our efforts I Of the plans of the revolutionary i party nothing was divulged but of this also I am certain that the actual revolution has not yet begun While there have bean uprisings here and there on the island they were largely conducted by irresponsible hotheads i who could not await the signal for concerted i i con-certed action It is extremely doubt j I ful If Gomez and Marti are yet on the i island Judging from a thousand i curious intimations and incidents I i am sure that Marti at least is at the present time conducting the campaign i from an excellent vantage point near I I enough to Cuba to be a base of supplies sup-plies and safe enough to enable both him and his followers to make good i their escape to Key West i Fifty Thousand Will Fight ITo I-To those who read and believe the censored cablegrams from Madrid and Hanava the news that at least I KO 000 men will be fighting for Cuban I independence within a month or so must come as a starting surprise Tot j this is the truth For never was the i revolutionary organization so complete For twenty years and more Marti has had blf one aim in life and to this he has sacrificed wealth home influence I influ-ence in fact ell that makes existence A tolerable The revolution has a host of I friends in Madrid under the very noses i of the queen regent and her counsel lors These are men who for twenty r years studied with Marti at Saragos I ci and many ot ihcm were leaders in the a 1 I establishment of the old Spanish re I public As a boy Marti had fought In his Cuban home and his transportation transporta-tion to Spain vas deemed a necessity The fire of thse days speaks as fervently I fer-vently as ever from his eyes and lips In Central America he has friends I of note who aided him In his first expedition and who are today helping him both with money 1 and arms It is believed that fully 5 qoo men will respond from the Central I I I I I I I TIlE LOSE STAR FLAG American republics and Mexico to the signal for Cubas revolution The unhappy revolution of 187S9 taught ilarti is a profitable lesson and it was then that he planned a revolution revolu-tion on a scale commensurate with the power he had to contend against One of his friends says that it was not until 1SS4 that his plans were first divulged to a coterie of intimates The purpose was to form a civil government for the revolutionary party with military I outposts at every possible point of vantage AS a matter of fact Marti has anywhere from 30000 to 40000 men I I 1 t < 3 iINr SECTOR MARTI prepared to come to his aid from Colombia from Venezuela where General Gen-eral Crespo is his wam friend from I Brazil where Da Gamas remnant will I fly to his aid and from the Argentine I Republic and little Uruguay So warm I has ever been the friendship of the latter lat-ter republic for Cubas greatest revolutionary 1 revo-lutionary leader that in 1891 he it was that was chosen to represent it in the I international monetary conference of I that year in Washington I E Malagas the bandit with a force of 1000 men has also espoused the cause of the revolutionary partj and his connection with the Marti cause I has in it the flavor of romance It was after the fiasco of 1879 that Marti was i i looked for most ardently by the Span I I ish authorities and capture meant immediate I im-mediate execution It was at this Junc i turs that Matagas who had seen and admired young Marti came to his aid j i Hearing of a plan to givo the young j I J leader up to the authoritis tie with j j a band of followers escorted him to a I secure place in the mountain district I and ptrolled the hding place for i weeks finally aiding him to leave the I country I The Fntnre of Cuba But there is one subject on which Marti has always talked freely junft that is the future of the Cuban republic re-public 4We desire first of all said he to establish a liberal republc founded in many respects on the Constitution Con-stitution of the United States and taking several admirable features from touth American repiblics Of course we have in our midst elements of varied governmental proclivities The beral Spaniards are our conserva lives the native Cubans are our liberals liber-als and our radicals and the golden mean will be found by which these elements now for the first time arrayed ar-rayed against the Spanish monarchy will coalesce quietly and satisfactorilv in thf formation o the new republic Only once before in the history of Cuba has the outlook for autonomy looked as bright as it does today That was when all Cuba was ready to spring to arms at the command of the liberator Bolivtr Then the intervention interven-tion of the United States prevented the consummation of the project but the enthusiasm of that early time has now been fanned into a determined > fervor that today animates every patriot j pat-riot in Central and South America for I I fully 5000 revolutionary troops are massed in the eastern end of the Island 1 I i about Guanatanamo under the command i com-mand of General G ZMoncada In Santiago San-tiago de Cuba another force is gatherIng I gather-ing and the main army will probably land in the south and begin its operations opera-tions against Ybarra Spain has sent additional troops to Cuba and altogether alto-gether the government forces will i i f ofT It I 4 i 00 II I I 1111 of Cuba Showing Provinces in Which Revolution Has Broken Out number 20000 But this force will of necessity be divided up and will because be-cause of its lack of knowledge of the country be very ineffective against the guerilla warfare which will mark at least the beginning of the campaign I have It from the best of authority that fully threequar ters of a ml ion dollars hay already I been subscribed to the CiMn campaign I cam-paign Not alone are all the rev lution 1 ary troops being armed but rrr nge ments have even been perfected for the purchase of two merchantmen which are to be changed into meno war The subscriptions to the ciuse before the end of March will aggregate nearly a million and a half I look for a real war that may last a year and may last ten but the prospects for Cuban independence never loo ed brighter CARLOS COMJBET |