Show WHAT WTLIi CUB e AIT ATP BE I J Just what aid the American soldiers When they arrive in Cuba will get from the patriots is problematical I is the general Impression that at locH 50000 Cubans will join with the American soldiers Not until the soldiers have arrived rived in the island can it be known what aid in numbers will be given them As in all such cases the estimate is probably high Fifty thousand Cubans I Cu-bans joining h the American 0 soldiers VLUU u < u UHe UUHlttl When the rebellion started three years ago the population was estimated esti-mated at 1600000 Since that time it Is generally agreed 400000 have perished per-ished through war disease and famine I This would leave It200000 If two i thirds are adherents of the party of independence that would be 800000 Of 1 that number threefourths would be j women and children leaving 200000 men all these figures are maximum rather than minimum I the Cubans I furnish 50000 men to fight the Span i iards It will be truly I surprising I When the invasion of Cuba shall be j undertaken enough troops should be j i pert to insure the complete overthrow of Spanish authority too much reli j ance should not be placed on Cuban I I aid for it is an unknown quantity and I dependence upon such a quantity is I unwise That the Cubans will render j much and valuable aid is sure but the j amount is uncertain They will be fighting for freedom and their country I and their actions will correspond to the 1 justice of their cause and if they do I not render a much aid as it has gen j I emily been thought they would it will I only be because they are unable to I 4 |