| Show THIS THE LOYAL CUBANS the action of the cubans in maintaining a force of men to hold the spanish at a distance from the points of Sh shatters shaffers debarkation shows that they are keeping faith with us in a manner that can be defined by no word more appropriate than superb not only this but they are equal to their promises and show an intelligent comprehension of what is expected of them that is only equaled by their manifested ability to carry it out all is going well so far the landing places are secure and to the stimulating strains of yankee doodle the last of the first american army of invasion has landed upon cuban soil the work in chief will now begin and we should all be thoroughly thor hughly satisfied that those of cuba in whose cause causa we took up tip arms are quite rea ready dy and filled with determination to do their full share of the areat work the stars and stripes and the emblem of cuba libre have from the first made a most harmonious picture when floating in the breeze together but now they are something more they are the joint symbol of the force which is to banish latin barbarism from the en vy 5 tf lightened northern division of this hem and free the last remnant struggling against the misrule of the last oppressor on these shores it is fit that people thus inspired and thus 1 actuated should fight shoulder to j shoulder as the americans and cubans already have done but now they come together in force and henceforth pro 3 aeed as an invincible power 1 until the common enemy surrenders or 1 is cr crushed J |
