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Show War That Wei Worth Itt Cost. If, as claimed by the health authorities of Cuba, that no yellow fever exists on the island that the half-dozen cases reported there iu the past year were imported from Mexicc then the war with Spain was w orth all and more than it cost. The constant menace of the yellow plague along our Southern coast, -emanating from the begrimed island which Spain so long misruled, was a source of great loss to the business interests of the country, not coDsidejring the loss of precious lives that an-Dually an-Dually resulted from yellow fever in our Southern States. When Cuba was freed by the intervention of the United States, American methods of sanitation and cleanliness were introduced. A revolution took place which not onJy freed the Cuban people in their inalienable in-alienable rights, but equally important were its results re-sults in the cleaning up of Cuba on scientific sanitary sani-tary liues. '. ( The challenge of the Cuban health authorities to the United States Marine Hospital Corps to find a case of yellow fever on the island is by far the.niost gratifying announcement that has come from, our new sister republic. |