The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-12-09
TACKLES THE CUBAN QUESTION
Not Much Comfort for the Followers of
Maceo and Gomez

NOT Much Comfort for the Followers n,
Maceo and Gomez.
Inc president then takes UP the Gu.
pan question, and SAYS:
| Inc lnsurrection in Cuba still con-
tlnues with all it's perplexities. If Is
uIIlicuit TO see that any progress has
mus lar Deen made towards the pacifi-
cation OF the island or that the situa
ton or affairs as depicted in nv las
annual message has in the least i'm
proved. If Spain still holds Havana
ana the seaports and all the considera
pie towns, the insurgents still roam ar
VIII over at least two-thirds of the in :
land country. If the determination of
spain to put down the insurrection
seems but to strengthen with the Ia nsa
OF tlme, and is evinced by her unhesi-
tating devotion of largely increa Sod
military and naval forces to the task
there Is much reason to believe that
the insurgents have gained in point Of
numbers and character and resources
ana are none the less infiexible in their
resolve not to succumb without nrac-
tically securing the great objects for
which they took up arms.
SPAN has not yet re-established
her authority, neither have the insur-
gents yet made good their title TO he
regarded as an independent state. In
oeed. as the contest has gone on the
on the island, except so far as Spain
is able to maintain II, has been prac-
tically abandoned. Spain does keen IN
ioot such a government, more or less
lmperfectly, in the large towns and
thelr immediate suburbs But that ex-
ception being made, the entire country
is either given over to anarchy or &c
subject to the military occupation Of
one or the other party. 1t is reported.
indeed, on reliable authority that at
the demand of the commandment -cbief
or the insurgent army the putative
CUBAN government has now given nm
all attempt to exercise its flInctions
leaving that government confessedI,,,
twhat there is the best reason for SIM,
posing IL always to have been. in facfI
a government merely on paper. Were
the spanish armies able to meet tbeir
antagonists I'm the open or pitched hat
,,e ProiIIpt ana decisive results might be
looked Tor, and the immense Superior
lty or the Spanish forces in numbers
ulsclpline and equipments could hardIv
iaIi 10 tell greatly to their adyaotape
but they are called upon to face q foe
mat shuns general engagements. that
,r enoose ana does choose it's own
GROUND, That from the nature az tho
country is visible or invisible M n,aasI
ure' and that fights only from ambus.
caoe, and when all the ADVANTAGE e
position and numbers are on IT'S s,do
III country where all that is indie.
pensable to life in the way of food
clothing ano shelter Is so easily o.
,alnable, especially by those horn ana
prea on the soil. it is obvious that there
is hardly limit to the time dn,.;,
when hostilities Of this sort NAV hs
prolonged. Meanwhile. as in Ali % 81. oe
OF protracted civil strife, the passionsos
me combatants grow more and vs., VI
Unnamed and excuses on both sides IRE
BILE. ""u more deplora-
They are also participated n -.
pands OF marauders who nou, a. ny
name OF one party and now IN th he
name or the other, as NAV hos, .ne
.ne occasion. harry the countrv n, suit sui,
""o p'unasr liz wretched inhabitant.