The herald., 1895-03-24

twenty years of constant effort in behalf
OF ms country have furrowed deep lines
inshis countenance and have placed the
! marks OF care on. every lineament.
I'VE expect he said, that many
false reports will be transmitted to the
United States. We expect that Spanish
eemlssaries will attempt to arouse public
feeling against us in New York and else
where. | ask of the American people to
trust and to aid us, at least with their
sYmpathies. Ours is such cause as Am
orleans once bled for in fearful war
against an overweening and resentful ty-
rant. We have fought long and ardently
for freedom, and we now look forward
with more hope than ever to the success
ful conclusion of our Efforts
OF the plans of the revolutionary party
nothing was divuged, but of this also
am certain, that the actual revolution has
not yet begun. While there have been up
risings here and there on the island. they
were largely conducted by irresponsible
hOtheads who could not await the signal
Tor concerted action. 1t is extremely
doubtful if Gomez and Marti are yet on
the island. Judging from a thousand
curious intimations and incidents, ! am
sure that Marti is at the present time
conducting the campaign from an excel
lent vantage point near enough to Cuba to
be base OF supplies, and safe enough to
enable both him and his followers to make
their escape to Key West.
70 those who read and believe the Cen
sored' cablegrams from Madrid and Ha-
vana, the news that at least 90 600 men
will be fighting for Cuban independence
WITHIN month or so, must come as a
startling surprise. \ Net this is the truth.
For never was the revolutionary organiza-
tiOn so complete. For twenty years and
more Marti has had but one aim in life,
and to this he has sacrificed wealth, home
inf in, oil fb,t
tolerable. The revolution has host of
friends in Madrid, under the very noses
OF the Queen Regent and her counselors
These are men who for twenty years stud 9.
led with Marti at Saragossa, and many of
them were leaders in the establishment OF
the old Spanish republic. As boy Marti
had fought III his Cuban home, and his
transportation to Spain was deemed a
necessity The fire OF those days speaks
as fervently as ever from his eyes and lips.
In Central America he has friends of note
who aided him III his first expedition and
who are today helping him both with
money and arms. 1t is believed that fully
,, 900 men will respond from the Central
American republics and Mexico to the sig
nal for Cuba ) revolution.
The unhappy revolution of 1879 taught
Marti profitable lesson, and it was then
that ne planned revolution on a scale
commensurate with the power he had to
COnieItu against. Olle OF MS lflcnGS saws
that it was not until 1884 that his plans
were first divulged to coterie of inti-
mates. The purpose was to form civil
government for the revolutionary party
with military outposts at every possible
point OF vantage. AS a matter OF fact,
Marti had anywhere from 5000 to 30, :
600 men prepared to come to his aid, from
Columbia, from Venezuela, where Cen
eral Crespo is his warm friend from Bra
I'll where Da Gama's remnant will fly to
his aid, and from the Argentine Republic
and little Uruguay So warm has ever
been the friendship of the latter republic
for Cuba's greatest revolutionary leader
that in 1889 he it was who was chosen to
represent il in the international none.
tary conference of that year in Washing
ton.
f. Matagas, the bandit, with "A force of
1000 men, has also espoused the cause of
the revolutionary party, and his connec-
tion with the Marti cause has in it the
flavor OF romance 1t was after the fiasco
of 1879 that MART was looked for most
ardently by the Spanish authorities, and
capture meant immediate execution. 1t
was at this juncture that Matagas, who
had seen and admired young MART, came
to his aid Hearing o1 plan to give the