The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-06-01

for the last two years between murders and
massacres, and promising neither peace to the
people nor safety to property while Spanish
dominion continues in that islands one Of
those depl0rable circumstances which almost
lead us to regard the world as still in a state
of chaos and barbarism. No more hostile
elements than those which have been at war
in the Sever Faithful Isle" can well be con-
ceived. The struggle Of Spain to suppress
the Cuban instruction is struggle of tho
father to suppress the natural inclinations of q
child systematically plundered and outraged.
The struggle Of the Cubans and of the creoles
in Porto Rico to overcome the influence Of
Spain in the only territory now left to her
dominion in America is struggle against a
most unnatural parent. And so the war goes
on, and there is no hope for peace, for indus
try or for civilization.
The Cuban revolution is ended. but the in
surrection continues. In two years not fewer
than sixty thousand soldiers have been sent
from Spain to suppress revolt which ought
to have been successful from the beginning in
both moral and a military sense, and yet,
Notwithstanding fifty thousand out Of those
sixty thousand men have persisted by the
diseases of the countryside number killed by
the iasurrect0s being infnitesimal-the Cuban
revolution has died on account of it's own In
herent confusion and rottenness
The Aldamas and the Ryans and the Jor-
dams have done nothing for Cuban indepen-
dence. They fought the Spaniards at very
safe distance. While there was a prospect OF
making money by this venture in the name
of freedom, or of obtaining power over peo-
pie who are the veriest slaves, without any
idea of the meaning of free government, these
men were loud in their glandiloquent
talk in behalf of the Cuban cause. But
in the hour of extreme danger, when they
were most needed in Cuba, those of the So
called 'leaders' who were not fighting the
battles Of the republic in Broadway were
seeking safety for themselves and their
property by accepting the terms offered to
them by Valmaseda. The ''butcher of Cuba"
became their savior, and to-day the army
which sometimes, as at Mayari and Bayamo,
deals death to the Spanish troops, is an army
OF Chinese and negroes and Of freebooters,
who assume the cause of the republic to
destroy both friend and foe. In their mountain
Businesses these marauders and murderers are
secure against the power of Spain. No
Spanish soldiery can penetrate into retreats
where the barriers of nature are in themselves
insurmountabe-barri which are rendered
more nsurmountable still by the knowledge
these people possess Of every bush and every
footpath. And this is one great reason why
the instruction can never be subdued while
the hate of Spanish rule is fostered by Spanish
rapacity and cruelty.
Another reason why the instruction will
continue is to be found in the fact that the
Spanish officers are unwilling to end it. They
come to Cuba to make money and generally
succeed in making it. While serving in the
island their pay is doubled, and they have be-
sides many opportunities to amass wealth in
country where honor or honesty, truth or JUS
tice, public or private virtue, are alike I'M
known. The only tenure by which Spain holds
dominion in the West Indies is by the cupidity
OF her officials. The revolution was an oppor-
tunity for many of them that they scarcely
expected, and it is still a mine of Spanish
ounces to the impoverished friends and rela-
tons Of men like Dulce and De Rodas. This
view of the present state of Cuba is coincided
in by the Duke of Montpensier, who, In q
recent conversation with the HERALD corres-
pondent in Madrid, which we present in an
other page, gives expression to sentiments
akin to those which we now express, and
which we have felt for some time past.
AT the beginning of the present year there
was still something like legitimate resistance
to Spanish tyranny, but one never hears OF
President Cespedes now. One never hears Of
General Ygnacio Agramonte, 1.-THE Comman-
-in-Chef of the Cuban forces" and the dic-
tator of the republic Even the Cuban Junta
of New York is silent as the grave. Planta-
tons are burned, crops of cane are destroyed.
industry is paralyzed; but the end seems
further off than in the beginning. Then the
Cubans had chance of sweeping everything
before them. The country was rife for revo-
luton. Spain was hated as no government
was ever hated by any people. A little mill
tary genius might have swept Spanish domin-
ion from the island forever But while the
yellow fever, aided by the worst commissariat
and the worst hospital accommodations pos
sessed by any army in the world, was destroy
ing regiment after regiment, in a country where
sunshine and death are synonymous terms,
soldierly skill was wanting. Havana ought to
have been in the hands of the insurgents from
the beginning. Failing to possess the capital,
the swamps Of Cienago and the mountains Of
Holguin and Santi Espiritu are worthless to
them except as the base of operations for
numbering and marauding parties, deserving
only the garrote and the halter. The only
hope for the island Is in annexation to thu
United States; but this is an event which may