Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-02-24
TWO POINTS OF VIEW.

TWO POINTS OF VIEW.
Cuban Revolution Discussed by MIN
lister De LONE and Senior Quesada.
s The conditions in Cuba, after a year OF
war between the liberty-seeking revolution
lists and the soldiers of Spain. are the sub
jects Of review from both sides of the con-
troversy, which appeared in the New York
Herald yesterday. In two articles of about
five columns each Senior Dupuy de LONE.
the Spanish minister to the United States.
and Mr.. Gonzalo de Quesada, secretary
Of the revolutionary party in Washington.
present their conclusions on the subject.
In commencing lis statement. Senior de
Lome repeats his assertion that every
America newspaper has refused to print
| the arr -. is in favor of Spain presented
to then. many Spaniards, who have
| tried to dlscredit the interested statements
OF the Cubans and their sympathizers,
who, during the last year. he declares,
have filled the columns OF the press with
abuses of Spain. Senior de LONE then pro-
ceeds to repeat what he declares to be the
real facts of the instruction. He describes
how he personally left Spain at the end of
March, 1895, with Gen. Martinez Campos,
for Cuba, and refers to the opinion he ex-
pressed when he reached New York in
April, that the instruction would be finish
ed before the rainy season. unfortunate
ly,' he adds. lit has not been SO. The
moral importance of the rebellion has not
increased, but the material strength Is
greater than anybody anticipated The rev.
olution started in Cuba was not of great
coEsequence-it grew stronger with the aid
brought from abroad"
Senior de LONE then reviews the progress
Of the instruction, complaining that the
revolution had been imported, and every
thing to carry on the war in the island was
sent from, abr cad, that the direction of the
revolutionary party was in the United
States, that from the Cubans living out of
Cuba came the money, that all the repre-
abroad, and have obeyed the junta which
has been established in New York. and
which had more than 80 revolutionary
clubs. the greater part Of them being in
the United States, sand uses this remark
able lang, age: The revolution is not a
popular rising of disconnected nation; 1t
Is filibuster.ng movement, principally of
demagogues. without standing in the IS
land, who have nothing to lose and are try
ing their Chances
Senior de LONE repeats at great length
the Spanish view of the political situation
in Cuba, and reasserts that previous to the
outbreak of the present rebellion Spain con-
sidered that the time had arrived to follow
the great reforms inaugurated I'm 1878. and
refers to the bill presented in the Spanish
cortes for the reform of the political gov
ernments Of the islands Of Cuba and Puerto
Rica. He then gives, from the Spanish
point Of view. recital Of the progress of
the fnsurrection. and, after describing the
character Of the revolutionists. proceeds as
follows:
THE war in Cuba has reached a state TO
which nobody in the island ever thought it
would come, but the revolution, so power
full to destroy and impoverish the island
and to do evil, is not today nearer the tri-
umph than 1t was just one year ago. Every
anarchist and revolutionary element has
taken the field. and the situation is such
today that 1t reminds me Of that described
In powerful words odd
Of President Lincoln, when he said that
one party would make war rather than let
the nation survive. and the other would
accept war rather than let it PERISH"
Regarding the manner in which the in
surgents have received help from the
United States, Senior de LONE says the
United States has fulfilled with great 10y
atty and friendship to Spain the duties
imposed upon it by thes national law, al
though hampered by internal laws but the
duties incumbent upon the citizens in a
ne ton at peace with another. he does not
believe have been fulfilled so we'll by many
of the true Americans who have aided the
false cnes to direct the revolution from a
safe distance in New York. He discusses,
of course. the granting of belligenent rights
from the purely Spanish standpoint
The Cubnn Side.
Secretary Quesada, after reviewing the
events Of the year. pays attention to Min
lister Dupuy de LONE, who. he said, ARRIVED
in this country with the humble apology of
Spain at the end Of April. and among other
precious things had declared that he had
studied the situation thoroughly, had no
hesitation in saying that the revolt would
be short-lived, and that the principal lead
ers were negroes"
He quotes the Madrid papers just ar
rived as saying that Mr.. de Lome's cam
paign Of insults to the Cuban patriots in
this country has failed. Mr.. Quesada de-
clares that not one Of the minister's state
ments has been verified. He shows that
at the very time the Spanish authorities
were scattering widespread the assertions
that the revolution was being subdued
Gomez and Maceo and their lieutenants
were invading the province of Matanzas
and were in the neighborhood Of Havana.
He then proceeds to describe the civil
government which was established in Cuba
last September. and toward the conclusion
who had been successfully wounded killed
about five times surrounded. prisoners. re-
pulsed, trapped, separated from each other
and their commands. have not left the
island in disgust nor been bought by
Spanish gold nor are they, as De LONE
said in December, in great danger of be-
ing completely routed but on the con-
trsry they are doing what they please, al
though officially defeated every day with
hundreds of dead and wounded" He quotes
Gen. Weyler as stating that If in two
years he brings the war to close he will
consider himself very lucky. Mr.. Quesada
states that the bloodthirsty measures of
which Weyler's recent DEGREES are elo-
quent proofs will only serve to increase the
ran ks of the Cuban army that is daily be-
coming n.ore powerful by the capture and
reception Of arms and ammunition, and.
above all, he says, Weyler will not triumph,
because Spain will exhaust all her resources
and he VI able to keep up her pace of the
past twelve months. But the Cubans can
keep 1t up and will keep 1t up forever"
says Mr.. Queseda in concluding his article.
''They fight for patriotism and not for pay;
nature is their ally. The rainy season is
fest approaching; after a few weeks Spain
will have to wait till next fall; that will be
perhaps her lest campaign in this CONT
rent, and 1t will surely be her last If the
sympathy of the people Of the new world
continues to be expressed in favor of Cuba
by such men as the illustrious republican of
Brazil, Quintin Bocayura, or the distin-