The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-04-27
HAVANA EASY
FOR UNCLE SAM.
Could Be Taken in a Few Days Says
General Johnson.
ITS NOTIFICATIONS WEAK,
Doesn't Think Sampson Should Bonn
bard the City.--The Southern Boys
Might Give Northern Soldiers
Chance This Time.
ITS FORTIFICATIONS WEAK.

cfu newspaper ana NuNt tuIlt HltHc
many careful observations.
General johnson said:
The war. as far as cuba is concerned,
ought TO be short. 1 have been in conii-
DENTAL professional relations to the Gu
ban Junta in New York tor
more than year. They tell
me they have plenty Of money and
more men than they can use. All they
want is the right to buy arms in the
United States and ship them TO cuba.
For eighteen months the government Of
the United States have exercised the
strictest diligence in preventing any
breach OF the neutrality laws toward
Spain. They have watched every port
and patrolled every mile Of the Atlantic
seaboard az the cost OF many millions OF
dollars TO the United States In order TO
prevent the Cubans receiving aid I'm men
or money The United States has been
the steadfast and Jealous ally of Spain.
The Judgment Of the Alabama-Gcneya
arbitration has been the ghost Of Banquo
and they are afraid that they will be held
responsible as Great Britain was for not
faithfully performing her neutral obliga-
tons At last they have gone to war on
a false pretence-Just ms they did In 1861
against Virginia aud the Southern States.
Then they pretended that they were wag-
the last defect of barbarism and wipnS
out the horrors depicted i'm Uncle Toms
Cabin.
WILL BELONG TO Us.
Now, they pretend they are making
war 10 protect the recOncentradOcs. Did
Weyler ever do anything more horrible
than ShCrman's maraud through GeOr-
gia and the Carolinas and Sheridan's
burning of the Valley? cuba Is geo.
graphically a part Of the United states.
il commands the commerce or the Gun
OF Mexico and the trade or Nhe Missis-
sippi the Missouri and Of the Ohio val
leys. II is as necessary TO the United
States as the mouth OF the MISSISSIPPI was
i'm Mr. Jcnersons time.
"It will as certainly belong 10 this great
government as ouisiana did. The law
Of nature makes it part Of the United
States.
"The Independence OF Cuba once
achieved. the Americans Will so and pos
sess the country as they did In IeNas
and i'm California, and you near no
more OF the race problem. An American
master mechanic. superintendent ON q
great sugar estate, told me ne got SoOV
a year in gold. with one month Eaca-
ton TO 90 home and he pald pIdcA-
smiths. carpenters. bhchayers ana stone
masOns s. per day in gold. Inal single
condition settles the race question Inc
Americans will own the island in two
years As TO operations there. OF course
| a man must be reserved. He can De
well informed as 20 varying conditions
unless he is on the spot.
EASY 10 TAKE.
| There IS one general proposition ABOUT
the art OF war that neither time nor
circumstance vary greatly. The lnvas-
| ION OF Europe by the hOrdes from ASIA
round the Baltic and across the DANUBE
did not vary greatly from the operations
| of the Russians by the same route IN
| modern times. nor did Hannibal nor
| Napoleon depart from their similar ope-
! rations i'm northern Italy In liJ2 a Brit
| Ssh force landed ON CaJIma, about eight
! miles east of Havauarca-march mp TO
| GuauabacOa five miles from the Morro
| took possession Of the range OF hills which
command the eastern fortihcauons ~
| Havana and captured the city IN SIX
days. THE same thing can be- done next
week. When / was IN Havana in 49,
| there were no iortincatlons on the Idhd-
] side. nor any picket lines.
you could ride out any where you
ulclsed. and there were constant and
| free communications with the rebel forces
outside ] doubt whether they have
done anything On the way OF ioriiiiea-
| tions since.
FILTHY HAVANA.
| "The Moro is an old-fIshioned fortress
Of masonry which will be knocked 20
| pieces by modern artillery in an hour IL
stands at the mouth of the harhor. The
Cahanas Is larger fertilization up inside
] the hlrb0r and couldn't stand a sound
Smelling The hvg.enic conditions are in
derent-th1t Is the only word 30 express
A.. The sewerage OF Havana n city or
10000 people. empt.es into the harbor
where there is no tide 10 carry lt on. and
A. is q foul. filthy ces5pOol. The water
supply of Havana is brought from the
hills back I'm The country. and is eNcellent
and abundant but fie hygienic condition
10 a lot of green boys going there now
would be simply fatal They'd die Ike
sheen. The rainy season begins In three
weeks and continues until October. and
during II % g. certain death for an I'M
acclimated man To sleep IN the country
en- the open air. I'm my opinion (and this
Is the day for newspaper adVlco). ia
start 10 600 regulars from Tampa tO-mor-
row. IA land tIem on Wednesday
near Havana. Gomez viii have 10000 well
armed ana seasoned troops to meet YOU.
and I'd have Havana by Friday night
but I'm the name OF civilization. In the
name Of American citizenship. / protest
against Ire .b0mbardment OF Havana
the Frightening Of women and children
IT'S inhuman. irs Incident rs barbar-
Gus Sherman said war Is He'll But
he made So so. His blO1dthlrstnes5
made war hell Lee did not DO so in
Pennsylvania lie protected property and
/ and non-c0mbatants az tenderly as II
they had been his best friends and 10 this
day they will tell you that the march OF
| the Confederates through the CumOer-
land Valley was ten thousand times
more orderly and humane Than that or
the Union troops who followed them.
DON'T wa Mt COMPARTMENT.
"Then, as an American citizen. / de-
nOunce and protest against the idea or
I the bombardment OF Havana by SamD-
sons feet IL will do no good. II Is not
war Let is make war on men, not on
women and babies.
1T is never wise TO underrata your adj
vrsary. but 7 cannot be mistaken when
| say that the American Is the foremost
man IN arms In this world. Take the
native American boy, led by his own peo-
! pie and he has more alertness. more
I sense. more self-control. more sagacity
| than any soldier who ever lived.
''rhe Englishmen, differed by the young
or sons OF the English gentry, comes up
20 him. but the hero such as we show
in Virginia and Maryland has never
been excelled. The spaniards l do
not estimate highly They are UNDER
1 fed They have no stamina. Their chests
are thin. their legs and arms lack
/ muscle. and their slnews do not supply
the place OF muscle.
Take 10000 OF such thin, why Southern