The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-01-22
CUBA WILL NOT YIELD.
Tomas Estrada Palma Declares
Compromise Impossible,
IN NEED OF MUNITIONS OF WAR,

General Riviera, the Successor Of Mnooo,
Has Three Thousand Men in His Conn
mand who Have Nothing but
60 right with.
New YORK, Jan. 2s-Tomas Estrada
Palma, president Of tho Cuban junta, last
night issued the following statement: $50
much has lately been said Of the proba-
bility of the termination of the Cuban
revolution by the acceptance on the part
Of the Cubans of autonomy or reforms,
that 1 feel IL incumbent upon me, as the
accredited representative of the Cubans,
Co make a brief statement upon the sub
joct.
"Reforms were passed by the Spanish
%cortes, but the outbreak of this revolution
was not thereby stayed n hour. There
was, and is, but one idea for which the
Cubans are fighting. We have had enough
Of so called reforms, enough of promised
autonomy. Every intelligent man would
rightly condemn the leaders and partici-
pants in this movement If anything short
ofindependence were the basis Of a treaty
Of peace with Spain. 1t is claimed that
General Gomez is willing to treat with
Spain on tho basis Of autonomy, and that
a letter TO the effect has been received by
mo There is no such Glitter. Knowing
General Gomez as q comrade in the last
revolution 1 can vouch for him. He is
made Of too stern material to surrender
on any such terms, particularly when, in
his latest letters to me, he writes con-
tentedly Of his resources and glowingly in
his convictions that this winters cam
paign will be most successful.
Even though m one of foremost
leaders should be inclined TO terminate
the wal by the acceptance Of autonomy
(Which is barely within the bounds of pos
sibility), while he himself might surrender,
he would do so alone. We Cubans are
not worshippers of individualities we are
steadfast followers of our ideal. The death
of our glorious Maceo brought sorrow to
the hearts of every Cuban, but we did not
~falter; his forces did not surrender the
revolution received no p%erceptible check.
The leader who proposed peace under the
Spanish flag would find himself without
followers.
"Every Cuban, every American, knows
that the apparent generous and concilia-
tory spirit of Spain springs not from her
strength, but from her weakness. How
can we then, under the circumstances, be
expected TO waver. If the Cubans in the
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proposals, the Cubans In the cities are too
well advised Of Spain's plans and SPANS
%precarious situation to counsel this step.
News Of our success in the field may be
suppressed by the censor, pacihcation Of
the island provinces may be falsely pro-
claimed, DEGREES allowing for the grinding
of sugar may be issued where all cane has
been destroyed, promises of reform and
autonomy given and amnesties promul-
gated, foreign countries by these means
and by m]endacious Spanish diplomacy be
cajoled into the belief that Spain is
mighty, is generous and that we arc
weak, are ungrateful, but we Cublns
will continue to fight for independence
first, last and all the time. Our leaders
may fall, but others will take thor places.
Gomez himself has written that even
should he fall, the revolution is strong
enough to continue to its triumph"