The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-04-17
WHO WILL PAY THE PIPER9
Spain wants slaI. o o for the Next CAM
pniEn In Cuba.

Spain wants e1H1 600, 600 for the Next Cam
pniEn In Cuba.
MADRID. March 3l.-Advices from Havana
say that the Intendant OF Finances places the
expenditures for 1S97-es at $121 900. 900. and
the receipts lt $40. GOO. 900. The correspond
ent OF the Herdido telegraphs thai the General
Council of Administrator refused to report
the draft for the budget on the around that
the island cannot bear the establishment OF
any nov taxes. Commenting upon this tho
Herdtdo says: what does this mean? II
they assume ouch an attitude In Cuba now.
what will they do when the Council is almost
sovereign? II they dare now thus to discredlt
Cuba and Spain. what will they say when tho
mex regime has been established? Let this
be a warning to the Government and to those
who favor Cubar home rule"
Soldiers from Cuba are coming back to Spain
ut the rate Of about . 1000 n month. The last
mail steamer brought one General. thirty-one
officers. nineteen SerEeants. and 626 p~rivates.
Nine prtvates died during tho trip; 1o1 OF
those who arri red cannot recover. and thirty
four are cripples. Passengers by The 8 me
steamer say that while the insurgents in the
West may be getting tired. the Instruction
in the East is mora powerful than ever. and
Gen. Weyler II not tie man TO end the war.
Tho correspondent of Ell Impartial in Ha-
vana cables by way of Key West: 1T is said
that more flibustering expeditions have lately
landed on the island. Maxine Gomez is still
unmolested around Sancti SplriI U.S.: Gen.
Avolas has asked for troops to reinforce tho
Jucaro Moron trocha, whore n.aiarisl dis
eases are spreading. To avoid SURPRISES like
that Mt Guiues the GarrisOnJ in the towns of
Havana province have beon reinforced.
Gen. Solano will return TO Spain on Aoril
~. Fonsdeviela. incensed Mt being transferred
from, the -Governorship of Gunnaracoa. has
askcd. TO be sent back to Spain. TIE economic
situstion Is growing more serious every day.
The Treasury Is $50. n0O, 900 in arrears. The
present SUGAR crop will scarcely amount &c
Ten American detectives. sent by the
Spanish Legation at Washi lGton. have arrived
In Hawai- to trace the ORIGIN of new. unfa-
vorn lie to Spain published In the United
DESPITE these reports. never since the death
OF Gen. Mace" have the Spanish been SO hope
full OF an early triumph In their colonial wars
as they are now that their army in the Philip
plnIs seems TO be advancing, unchecked. to
the very heart of the rebellious districts, and
that the Cuban leader. Rus Rivera, has been
taken prisoner. Even the newspapers which
had taken The Gloomiest view Of affairs have
sistently attacking Gen. Weyler, whom they
fpnssu Cuba sae II EA. In, pSs:"sit IL for To" instance Say oe p SSn.
graduates Gen. Herman iez de velasco upon
1 nor,S SsP Genre !; % e H,4' adds ldniysFa' and wholly iE-
ITO say that the Cuban Gu npaizn is not
more difficult than that of Cavite would be
absurd: but. at the same time. the mere fact
that a war Is difficult does not Justify the aIle-
cation that IL cannot be ended. Such a decla-
mo Gomez. Calixto Garci.-. Qnintin Banderas.
Collazo, Rolof. and others tire so
many Naroleons ana AleXanders against whom
o large and brave Spanish army with many
skilful leaders is imDotent.
Militia science has ample resources against
the Cuban policS of avoiding fights with largo
columns and macheting weak detachment. A
General VINO ia brave, active. and skilled in
paign. BY holding all the outlets from a
mountain, for instance. he may compel an
enemy to fight. even though he prelends to
make war without tlghtt"g.
"Maceo was inyincible until ho was killed
at .Punta Brava by the San Quinhn soldiers.
Only g few days ago Rus Rivera boosted that
those who went TO invite him 10 accept reforms.
anu expressed his firm belief that we could
Zen. Hernandez de Velazco's masterfui plans.
the insurRent leader could no longer practise
his non-ighting %tactics.
rected, the war would not he interminable.
and the insurgents would not be able to hold
their own until The rainy season simply by
avoiding battle.
III wisely concerted military operations were
devised To beat old Maxine Gomez. not many
months would clause before his bands would
meet the same fate AS the so-called battaliOns
OF, Maceo's successor in Pinnr del Rio. His
were devoted to SOM thing besides making
marches through Las villas. that Gen. Weyler
may tell us what we knew long aVo. that the
insurRent do not accept our challenge.
IF something practical were done. the task
of pacifying Cnba would not be difficult. and
the insurgents would make haste to recognize
admirable system OF g~oternmsnt for Cuba.
But peace will not be achieved nor the insur.
gents convinced OF tho efficacy of reforms II
action 10 to be limited TO promenades by Gen.
Weyler's twenty battalions."
ladolid. Senior San tiago Alba. Secretary Of tho
Chamber OF Agriculture. said that the admin
i%strative reforms abo 1t to, DO established in
Cubs. seriously threaten the interests Of the
| Castilian PROVINCES, whose Hour cannot be OF.