Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1896-05-27

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cause or supporting the rebellion with
all their hearts are gentlemen and ladies'
| The idea that they are ruffians and mon
sters is unjust, and its assertion, TO turn
a sentence, is cruel. There is none
more clever and accomplished than they
The following testimony from Cuban
country newspaper" is more notable
because it was reproduced as official
news in a Havana paper:
| SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Feb. 8.
In these days there have been solicited and
granted great number of passports for Vene-
! zuela, Costa Rica Santo Domingo, Mexico and
Haiti If this emigration should continue,
within a very short while we will remain
| without population.
The want of work is the principal cause why
many people have abandoned the country
1t is said and it appears to be certain, that
| In this week a good many persons have Joined
the rebels, some quite well known.
They Want Annexation.
1t is said that Gomez is not for an
nexation to the United States; that he
thinks there should be confederacy of
the West Indian islands, with the cap
ital at Havana, but that is farfetched
fancy ON which no time should be lost.
Maceo, 1.-THE mulatto with an ambi-
tion," is said to be for annexation.
Captain General Weyler's political ante.
cedents are recorded as those of liberal,
almost republican, but before this is
accepted as veritable it should be veri-
fed. The stories go to show how strange
bedfellows war makes. Cuban COM
plants of Spanish misgoyernment are
given rather in general than in separate
interviews, as would be the natural
order. This is partly for convenience to
save space and partly because the utter
ers of these representations could not be
cited as responsible without personal
disturbance and possibly danger.
We make about !, 100000 tons of
sugar per year, filling 700, 600 bags, say
the Cubans, and the cost of an English
jute bag is cents. and the duty is 10
cents. Spain pays no duty, and has of
course monopoly of the bag business.
The cost of bags to the planter is 30
cents each. Spain gets 800, 900 year
out of Cuba for sugar bags.
Fifty-two per cent of the commerce
of Barcelona is Cuban, and so per cent
of it is extortion through laws, discrim-
mating for Spain against Cuba.
Seventy-fve per cent of the places in
the government administration of Cuba
are filled by Spaniards, and the 20 per
cent Of Cubans who fill smaller Offices
have to send money to Spain to get
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neutrality-suspicious. very rare, and
they come in successive waves. They
stay awhile, make money, and hasten
back to Spain to spend it. This is as
great an evil as unjust taxation.
What Spain Proposes.
The remedies that Spain proposes are
at least inadequate, and the following
extracts from an article by military
man in local paper, and headed "The
| War of Cuba. ;" published after the re-
tirement of Campos and before the ar
rival of Weyler. displays the means by
which it is the proposition of those who
appeal to the sword only to recover Cuba,
though it is to competent observation a
lost island as the case stands
Here are laid down tersely the plans
to compensate for ages of indiscretion:
First Take away the rebels means
Of moving from place to place by depriv-
ing them of horses and hindering their
remounting
Second. Deprive them of resources
by destroying fruit trees, gathering all
cattle in their territory.
| Third. Finish with spying by con-
centrating all the country people in the
towns and chastising severely all those
who act as carriers, spies, messengers
Or correspondents.
Fourth. Prevent them from receiv-
ing arms, ammunition and provisions
by watching closely the coast and the
surroundings of cities and towns-aboye
all, those on the railroad.
Fifth.-Divide them and demoralize
them by carrying on an incessant and
vigorous persecution, especially with
cavalry and mounted infantry on horses
and trappings levied on the country.
Sixth. DO not permit them TO have
the least advantage in any encounter; dc
away with military posts unless they
are an absolute necessity and let the
columns have effective forts. In case the
enemy divides itself, observe the same
rules in respect to the small bodies in
charge of pursuing the groups detached.
Seventh. Check tactics of ambush
and false retreats by means of constant
fianking, double or single, and do not
pursue unless zen eshelon -
Eighth. Prevent them from crossing
from one province into another by
means of contention lines duly fortified
and garrisoned and with easy commu-
nication within at least the greater part
of its length.
Ninth. Prevent those who surrender
from going back to the field by uttering
measures to that end.
Tenth. -Moralize the war in every
thing possible, submitting to military
courts all delinquents, abettors or har-
borers and attempts against the rights
of the people committed under the pre-
text of serving the insurrection.
Eleventh. -Guard with great secrecy
the operations of the troops, prohibiting
the corresnondeuts of tbe y,resS in tho