The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-07-24
THE IMPENDING SUPPRESSION or
THE CUBAN REVOLT.

THE IMPHNDINH SUBIICESSION OH
THE CUBAN REVOLT
Much as we have desired the success of the
Cuban revolutionists, we fear that the pros
meets of their triumph are growing ''smal by
degrees and beautifully less" Various causes
are combining to extinguish their movement,
and to render the domination of the mother
country more complete than ever. The
Standards have made war in no rose-water
fashion. When they found that the perpetual
tion of their power was seriously endangered.
they took up arms in earnest, and fought the
rebellion in the most sanguinary manner.
Instead of initiating our example IN "ad-
ninistering the oath of allegiance" to captured
prisoners and then restoring them to liberty,
thew have either killed, imprisoned, or ban
ished all the patriots that have fallen into
their power, and they have freely imposed the
pains and penalties of confscation. Twelve
hundred valuable estates have already been
seized by the Spanish authorities, and many
illustrious natives have fallen victims to
Spanish cruelty These acts of oppression are
sustained not merely by the regular army,
but by sixty thousand well-armed volunteers,
composing all the active Spanish residents
and some of the Creoles who adhere to the
mother country. During the last few
months they have promptly suppressed
every patriotic demonstration in the
more populous and productive portions of the
island, and the insurrectionists have barely
been able to maintain a precarious foothold
in comparatively inaccessible regions. The
self-impOsed expatriation of thousands of
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the Spanish arms, and one of the most potent
causes of Cuban defeats. 1t is estimated that
eight thousand of the exiles are now domi-
ciled in New York, and two or three thousand
in this city. A large number have also sought
safety in other portions of the United States,
in Europe, or in the islands contiguous to
Cuba. Since they do not stay at home to
fight out the battle for freedom, who else can
be expected to secure their deliverance
From time immemorial linen who would be
free, themselves must strike the blow" Our
revolutionary ancestors would never have
achieved independence if they had hocked
by thousands to foreign lands, and the South
ern Rebellion would have been speedily
quelled if large proportion of the leading
Rebels had abandoned their native country,
The excuse of the refugees is that if they had
remained in Cuba they would have lost their
property, and probably their liberty and lives.
This is, in itself, confession of defeat, for if
they cannot find shelter and vantage ground
for continued resistance on their native soil,
their prospects must be desperate indeed.
The turning point in the struggle
appears to have been the expulsion or with
drawal of Dulce and the appointment of De
Rodas as Captain-General. The wife of the
former is by birth Cuban; and as he shared,
to some extent, her sympathy for the insur-
rection, he failed to adopt vigorous measures
for its suppression. His successor, however,
is restrained by no such scruples, and, acting
i n hearty accord with the volunteers, he has
speedily changed the whole aspect of affairs
The last hope of the Cubans centred in
aid from the United States. But here, too,
they have been bafied by the stringent en-
forcement of the neutrality laws; and since
they will not stay at home to fight their owr
battles, and cannot export cargoes of despe
rate Americans to brave disease and every
form of danger in support of their cause, the
Appomattox of their rebellion has nearly beer
reached. So thoroughly has tranquility beer
restored in the habitable portions of the island
that it is supposed now, by those familiar
with its industrial operations, that the suga
crop will not be materially diminished
for on very large proportion of tn
estates the ordinary labors are continued
without the slightest arrangement o
interruption. The very latest scheme, il
view of the manifest failure of the appeal tC
arms, is project to purchase the island iron
Spain with bonds given by Cuba and endorses
by the United States We hope, however
that the national authorities will not sanctio
for a moment this wild'goo speculation
We have pecuniary difficulties and responsi
bilities enough of our own without assumin
those of other people. A national debt c
twenty-five hundred millions, and State
county, corporation and municipal indebted
ness of aggregate dimensions, which al
scarcely less fearful, are quite as much as W
can conveniently manage; and it will be val
to prate of economy in small matters if W
are to be made the bankers and hackers
foreign revolutionists.
THE IRISH CHURCH BILL.
THE Irish Church bill, as amended in a fe