| Show OUR FLAG for the first time in the history of the world the flag fieg of the united states has been unfurled on the soil of cuba A brief dispatch in news announces that the american scouts succeeded in making a junction with the insurgents a sharp engagement followed soon after in which sixteen spaniards were killed tend a nd sixty wounded the remainder being put to flight during the encounter the stars and stripes floated proudly in the breeze alongside the beautiful emblem of cuba libre end and under these theae united symbols of freedom the victory was accomplished this war is not only proving itself a maker of epochs but jf of swift and surprising climaxes as well it was all anticipated tiel in a general we way y but the working out of the details Is something at which the thinking world may stand agape and after its amazement is vented ponder over cuba cluba is to be free it is more than probable that the philippines axe are already free thus are the decrees of a registered destiny being evolved by the land which owns no crown bends to no tyrant and brooks no oppression |
