| Show SPAIN 18 NEW TROUBLE the announcement wat thai porto rice in all probability will join cuba to lo the a against alast spain to la now made it appears to be the next number of the he great program prepared by the leaders of the cuban revolution a and ad that it Is ie about to be carried out proves beyond a doubt that the cuban rising so BO far has been successful notwithstanding all official reports to the contrary the insurgents commenced their struggle gle with ill drilled and badly equipped soldiers eold lere without money and almost without modern armp arm they bad PO organization to speak of ano ana no resources sod and yet they have held out against the army of the mother country and gained ground inch by inch they have bave forced spain to send reinforcements repeatedly until the army at home has ban become so reduced as ae to threaten the safety of the country sod and to borrow millions in order to carry on the war and now with the fact demonstrated demo nitrated that a handful of patr patriots toto can hold their own in the apparently VID unequal Equal struggle author another dependency is ia about to rise and nd strike a blow for the be common cause aue it looks an aa it if it would bo be good policy for ephis to ta rive give wip op bet west indian adian possessions so ae gracefully as pon poa sible ible porto rico bico in a little island one of the great Anti antilles llop about a hundred miles from east to west and forty miles all from to souta its area la Is not quite quit square quare miles and it has a population of between SIX aix and even seven hundred thousand it to la one of the most moot healthy and fertile of the wet west indian island and would undoubted ly under a rational government become a comparatively wealthy country the grievances of at the people are similar iollar to so those of the cuban nearly all the resources of the island being befog monopolio liz id A by foreign foreigners erp while the natives are kept in poverty and a state of subjugation |
