| Show THE CUBAN CAUSE notwithstanding all official ef dt forts to belittle the cuban tion lion mid and numerous nume rouB predictions of JIS ito speedy collapse ool lapie the movement te steadily tea dily growing and when meets in the fall fail that bat body will 11 the present program la Is carried out 60 t notified of the establishment of cuban republic with a provisional evv and an aa accredited ire presed tive at washington bad and an earnest var at peal will be made for recognition 0 of the insurgents BB as belligerent gift we too strong sentiment in this thib country in favor of the cuban patriots that will be an important question quee tiou not tree rom bertus eerie us difficulties difficult leip can the united states recognize the before these have been able to force the spanish commanders oom mandera to agree to a formal exchange of wounded and captured a aud and such other rights so ae are accorded to regular but denevi to armed outlaws to d do 0 so 10 might be construed as an act of hog till ly y to spain unprecedented and not probably the beate ervice that but auld he be done deneto to cuban ind inde epen pain donee denoe by this thib country would be to e C quire the island aland by means meana of pu ratings and eata establish blish a republican government on its beautiful abores cuba so BO near dear world whis where principle of independence and liberty govern overn tf has baa felt the be deppo of the old world keenly As an early as aho th year 1828 the struggle commenced oommen oed but the first farat important battle for liberty occurred in 1848 when lopez alamed an expedition from this country countr he fia captured the city of Car deuss but had bad to withdraw three years year later led another band against the lards lard but failed he was captus end and executed and portions por tiona of hla his body were publicly sold in 1868 a revolution jesting ton ten years commenced under the leader hip of Ceppe deB A republic proclaimed thib uprising cost coat stain millions mil liona of dollars and thou ands cande of soldiers old lera it in IB claimed that of troop sent from the mother cou country latky only a few hundred returned so a fit fierce roe w wim the warfare so BO fearful the ravages of too the rosily fondly ienena ral martiaez Martio ez b by fe fiat of political on IQ ia lu che of civil war it I 1 it 4 1 needless to may lay the reforms never materialized jose Joae marti Martl at the time of this insurrection action was a boy fifteen years he was captured and sentenced to hard labor in chains for sedition he effected his escape however and anoe 1891 he has hag been working on the piano of the present uprising through ibis elmob ia efforts cu cuban ban dabs clubs were forme forma i 1 r every country of the american continent united into a great revolutionary party arms and were procured and sent to the island marti mart was wac killed in one of the skirmishes with the spaniards but the wis before then cow corn plated and the plans laid and the war wa go boea oo on notwithstanding the death of if one of the lea derr derp prominent par in the revolution express hope ot of its final anal success this time jn in ao an article ou the cuban re revolution in the Reo ReD gember number of nf go leys dass magazine some facts and fleuren fixtures are given alveo illustrating the condit ioup under which the population is suffering the government of nf i spain the island ban baa a debt of or per capita in order to most meet this the taxation is in oppressive small retail abores are taxed and larger more the income tax is proportionally severe clerks pay two sod a half bait per cent of their ear earnings ninas with mith an extra amount to pay for the collection ol lotion permission is Ms als required for every social rather ing and cannot be obtained by bribery taxes on OB importe are almost prohibitive except on goods from spain native officials are compelled to pay bribes bribed for their appoint and practice ex bertion ter tion from their own people with ucb such government no wonder that patriots stake ull all on the chance of ob liberty it is in more than likely too that with persistent and united gorig they will obtain it as have haaf other countries on this hemisphere |
