Show 6 4 1 t 11 I 1 I 1 tg i 1 t la 60 HAVANA how they were won with alth a pocket handkerchief Prom promie Pr omle lse to 1868 when the revolution ution ot of ten years in cuba began no volunteers existed in havana worthy of being called such there was only one old regiment and when gov geu gen lensun di then of the island tried to complete this illis regiment he found the task difficult of accomplishment on account of i the prevailing unwillingness to enlist but just at this time most providentially for the relief of his dilemma some unknown hands covered the walls of Mat matanzas anWA near havana with huge posters promising each spaniard his passage home and th the e privilege of carrying away with him whatever his big pocket handkerchief could contain in the event of his enlistment the effect of this stimulus to the nagging flagging pulse of the public was electrical and the enrollment roll ment of men followed within forty eight hours the volunteers thus came into existence with their chiefs jr in the majority but the ruined merchants of the city of havana soon found out and objected to the newly risen power this opposition increased upon the arrival tn in cuba of the new governor gen eral dulce who came tn in 1869 as representative senta tive of the revolutionary government of spain he was a man of good faith empowered by the government to grant cuba all the reform she coveted and that has lately been offe offered redL he would undoubtedly have put a terminus to the revolution averting all the ruin and devastation which followed but such an easy and magnanimous course did not suit that class which faced inevitable financial ruin as a consequence of such a policy san francisco chronicle |