The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-02-09

limits of an ordinary riot, though IL
was the source OF some injury TO the
mother country. In those times there
was fine organization. Patrician fam
lilies of the old colonial and proslavery
regime directed it, it was governed by
the most experienced men in admins
trative affairs, very well made con-
stitution formulated its principles and
well organized party supplied the war
with soldiers and money contributions.
And we so well knew how to surmount
all obstacles, by keeping the war with
in the narrowest limits, that, thanks TO
its little Importance, it could hardly be
compared with the struggle maintained
during some 80 years by the Dutch at
Sumatra.
But we are now in an epoch when
there is blowing over Europe the wind
of mania for territorial extension.
Canovas del Castillo left to us on the
day Of his death the Cuban question
submerged in a pool of tears and OF
blood. In Europe the climate is neutral
between the ombatants, while in Amer
lea it fights against US in favor of our
enemies.
when we send our soldiers there it
is to fight against men, and it happens
that these unfortunate heroes and mar
tyrs must fight at the same time against
the elements. Nothing excites the en-
thusiasm of the Spanish soldier more
than to have in front of him a tangible
and palpable enemy; on the contrary,
nothing discourages and unnerves him
more than TO have instead of armed
rebels to fight invisible microbes.
eve must consider these tropical
wars subjected to other rules than those
practiced in European conflicts They
are maintained upon inaccessible noun
tains, favored by inextricable defiles
and accompanied by the cholera in the
water, by miasmatic fevers in the air
or by devastating and frightful sun
strokes When it is impossible to arrive
in time; when one does not receive any
challenge, and when space is INSULT
Gent to assemble for fighting; when an
enemy fees away in all directions, and
when you are exposed 10 diseases caused
by heroic fights, il is necessary TO ac-
commodate 70 such unavoidable circum-
stances the plan Of war ia which our
experience cannot help Us, which our
tactics cannot know, because the law II
the greater number, decisive in all seri.
Gus fights, is in Cuba generally impo-
tent in the pursuit of rebels. Ii il indis-
pensable at first to get acclimated, to
adapt oneself to the surrounding condi.
tions, to possess q colonial army consti-
tuted on the basis and the model Of
those heroic Cuban volunteers and the
Philippine militias, which were so use
full recently in sustaining our tropical
wars, where new soldiers are marching
like sheep or running like shadows.
There is no doubt that our Cuban war,
which must and will end in the victory
of the peninsula over its ungrateful COL
onists, would have avoided numerous
evils and had less acute phase il in
stead of transporting from the old world
into the new an agglomeration of SOL
diers such as history has never before
chronicled we had confined ourselves to
guarding our villages and opposing with
intrenchments and other defensive
works an impossible barrier 10 the reb-
els who were tempted to pass lvom the
sterile regions Of the EASTERN part Of the
Island - the movs fx4i,s 80 6 the
western part" )1 ~ -