The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-24
TWENTY PAGES.
SUNDAY. JULY "a, 1895.
Garcia to Shaner.

AMI o' oH@ /
n which these days of war have
brought 10 the ear of the public
as chivairous and as appealing, is the
letter which was a part OF Saturday
mornings press report and In which
General Garcia announced TO General
shafter his determination to resign his
commission In the Cuban army. This
country's public knows that the conduct
of the insurgents, during the siege OF
Santiago, was mentioned In some OF
the dispatches in uncomplimentary talk
and. in instances, with contempt. Yet
there were, as we'll, certain mentions or
the bravery of these cubans and of their
zeal to assist our soldiers in their eff
fort TO AXE the town. Not all of the
truth is known, nj for reasons which
have been assumed by the American
public to be satisfactory, General Gar
cha was conspicuously omitted from the
list Of those invited to witness the for
nal surrender of Santiago.
Paul the Apostle. hat glorious cam
paigner for the Christian faith, wrote
a letter to the Corinthians in which In
these words he reverted TO the trials
through which he had passed: Thrice
was beaten with rods, once ] was
stoned. thrice / suffered s~hipwreck, a
night and a day / ave been In the
deep; in jo~urneyings often, in perils OF
waters, In perils of robbers, in perils
OF mine own countrymen. In perils by
the heather. in perils in the city. In
perils in the wilderness. In perils In the
sea, In perils among false brethren; in
WEAKNESS and painfulness, In watchings
often. in hunger and thirst, In Hastings
often. in cold and nakedness."
Somehow. Garcia's heroic endeavor
nnds its suggestive prototype in the in
trepid apostles ~tireless zeal. In years
30 long ago that their incidents have
passed out Of mems minds, Garcia was
enduring sufferings and %privation as a
crusader for Cuba in the ten years war.
.He was made prisoner; he attempted
suicide, preferring death to a captive's
. fate; he lived. he was sent across the
sea and cast into prison. When terms
OF peace were declared he FASTENED back
TO New York to resume. ~undaunted by
defeat, his campaigning for Cuba
amid the scenes made memorable a
fortnight z by our own battle Of San
!, tiago. he proclaimed freedom for Cuba
and rallied the islands dispirited de-
tenders. Again made prisoner and sent
across the sea, he endured for years the
horrors Of a political prisoners lot.
Eluding his guards at length, he fed tc
England n 10 the United States; he
managed to At out an expedition where
with TO renew hoetilities near Santiago
the vessel bearing his stores went Il
the bottom Of the Atlantic He was abb,
to gather the material for a second eN
petition; the ship was seized, just al
Il was ready to sail from a port OF th'
United States. Unresting. Garcia be
took him once again 10 Cuba-in tn
managed to stay Spanish soldiers who's
valor. attested In the carnage of thi
month, In front Of Santiago, compels tn
respect OF the American people.
Ones admiration for this veteran war
rior is challenged in the words whic
compel him, after all these years c
struggle, to write to General ShafteI
IN reference to the allegation that thei
was reason TO fear massacre and r.
venge. were the cubans TO enter sar
J tiago: Permit me, sir, TO protei
| against the shadow OF such an idea. "
! are not savages ignoring the rules
civilised warfare. We are a poor, ragge
army. as ragged and az poor as II
army Of your fo%refathers in their mob
war for Independence. but. as did II
heroes Of Saratoga n Yorktown. v
respect too deeply our cause TO disgra'
! a. with barbarian and cowardiee."
! There's mannness in this pathetic le
- ter. II Is a protest, but there IL
vh,nins IA IT, In the envIrons Of sal