The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-02-06
FIGHT BROUGHT HOME.
Halstead Locates Cuban War in the
United States.
BOSTON REPRESENTS HAVANA In
TROPICAL NEW ENGLAND.

As though Insurrection Started in Main,
and Had Reached Rhode Island-Th,
Mistake of Insurgents in Burning
Property-Similar to an Error of tn.
Confederacy.
New York. February 4.-Murat Hal
stead cables the New York journal to-
day: A.ke tropical country of New
England; extend it to the length from
the Jersey coast to Lake Michigan; cal
the states provinces, and Boston, Havana
add something to the mountains and..t
great deal to the vegetation; give pro
fusion OF mahogany; royal palm and CO.
coanut trees, oranges. pineapples and
bananas; fill in with tobacco and sugar
plantations; place thisEaggregatio on will
the State of
MAINE TO THE EAST
and Rhode Island to the west, and cross
wise of the Atlantic; the capital, OF
course, in Massachusetts, looking nortt
across the Gulf Of Mexico to the vast
United States, towering on the north.
western horizon, and we have Cuba in
proportions, divisions and features
The instructions begins in the east end
and works westward, starting, aocordi ng
to our New England diagram, in Maine
and flowing through New Hampshire
and Vermont. This time their forces,
fleet of foot, passing Boston, have dis
turbed Connecticut and made an incur.
sion into Rhode Island. The antagoniz
ing armies are chiefly in Massachusetts
the situation siQnifying that hard blows
will be struck SOON, and Boston has seer
the
RED GLARE OF THE FIRES
in the cane fields.
The tendency of the tide of rebellion il
just now to recede eastward. The rebels
policy is to keep in the field, avoiding
decisive battles Kby scattering, and con.
centrating according to circumstances,
and occupying or threatening all the tsr-
ritory possible. The obvious military me-
cessity of the Spanish has for some time
been to strengthen their cavalry, and q
fine battalion Of that arm en- the street
yesterday, evidently in woman-like form
and meaning business, marked a point
of adequate equipment.
1t will be serious error, wherey eI
made, to undervalue the Spanish army.
Many are boys of course; but boy SOL
d1erS are the
HOPE OF A NATION
in war. On the battlefield of Shiloh if
was remarked by those who buried the
slain of.both armes that not one-fourthgot
the faces of the dead were bearded.
There is in the ait AN important rumor
that the insurgent chiefs have changed
their policy of prohibiting in districts
where they prevail, the grinding OF
cane. Reports are circulated that sugar
making is to be encouraged within the
insurgent lines.
1t will be remembered that in the be-
ginning of the war Of the states, the first
Iolicy of the Confederatas was
TO BURN COTTON
with the view of orippling the material
resources. and compelling the reoognit-
ion of the Confederacy by England. All
at once, they found, in effect, that thew
were burning their own gold, and strove
to hide and keep and smuggle cotton
| and did so to their advantage
Their may be a like story to tell of
sugar in the Cuban war. The signs of
the times are, that there will be in the
events of this combat from this time to
the end, less destruction of the property
and more bloodshed, and that means
that ethe prosperity of the marvellous
island, however men may die, will not
perish.