The times., 1897-07-02
FIGHTING FOR THE RIGHT.
General Gareia's Unshalsen Belief
in Cuban Victory.

General Gareia's Unshaisen Belief
in Cuban Victory.
Goazaio de Quesada. secretary of the
Cuban delegation at washington, yester-
day received letter from CaIixto Garcia,
the Cuban general, of which the following
is an extract:
'saie1ia, HoIguin. May %, 1897
My dear friend and compatriot III
the Cutan people needed 10 maintain It's
unbroken resolution for Independence, moth
ing could be more enccura ging that your
beautiful letter, Ia which you speak OF
your mission IN Washington and OF the
high aims OF the American people and
of its present Government.
1T can do and should do a great deal
In our favor, Ia king into consideration
only the reality OF things and the strictesu
justice. 1t need not count with the his
torical anteoedents, nor with our common
interests. nor with the solidarity which
should exist between Countries of America
and all honest nien born here, or in China.
against the crime of humanity.
The fact is, although Spain may con-
ceal it, the United States may wish to
recognize it, and the whole world deny
it, that we keep up Just war, more
vigorous and more powerful every day,
because our enemies are every day weak
ened by the losses ia its army Ii battle
and sickness; weak ened by its enormous
Expenses and debts, by its war in the
Philippines; by the Carlist upriSings. by
the deseTtion of its soldiers; and for q
Thousand reasons, all OF which tend to
bleed and impoverish them, it seems as
if all had conspired to fall upon her at
given time, as Just punishment for
her great crimes. We in the meantime
are receiving new life with the valuable
resources which reach US from abroad by
the numerous recruits which come from
towns held by the enemy, to increase our
ranks, or join our peaceful and Iahoring
people, whose labor provides for our army
without having to spend sin gle dollar
either in salaries or In food By the adj
vantages we obtain daily we gain ground
on the enemy, pushing him more end
more, to such an extent that he is today
literally confined in the towns controlled
by him to the land on which he stands
and is intTenched formidabIy in the last
strongholds of his uncertain domination.
such is the condition of our Contest.
We occupy three-fourths of the island, and
under us is almost all the Cuban population.
| We have war matcriealSa and food, armofies
| shoe factories, salt works, and all that is
necessary to hold on indefinitely. The
| Spanards, on the other hand, occupy tho
| shells Of the few towns that remain, 'oi
many have disappeared; they do not dare
| to go any further and one-half league
] from them, unless in large columns, C
| transport provisions from one garrison u
| another, from g town to one near by. ant
they are constantly fired upon by ON
troops They never remain in an opera
| tion longer than is strictly necessary, ant
they return to take refuge within the towr
waIis
! Under these circur1ss anceS so BRIEFLY
sketcheG, what remains for the Spanard
| with which to triumph-if they still be-
liege that they can triumph? Men? Sh,
| neither has them, nor can she send fo
| them, as was proven in the case of Gen
| Poiavieja, to whom they denied the 20,
eoe men that he asked for the Philippines
| and which was the cause Of his resgna
ton. And even if they had them an,
would send them, they would not improv
their chances much, because on their al
rival they would become i'll, would hav
to go to the hospitals, there to die o
become fnvaiids, which happens in th
majority Of cases