The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-07-27
OUR NEW YORK LETTER
WHAT RESIDENT cuBANs THINK OF
GENERAL GARclA'S ATTITUDE.
They Still Revere Him as a Patriot and
Honor Him as Brave Man, but They
Believe He Has Made the Greatest Mis-
take of His Entire Life.

NEW YORK, July 26.-[Special. 1T
would be drawing it mild" to say that
the Cubans of this town who have been
furnishing the sinews of war to the insur.
gents for years are aghast a, TIE detection
of Garcia from the alliance with the Unit
ed States forces which resulted in the
downfall If Santiago.
"Nt .hatter what General Garcia may
do, said a well 10 do Cuban whose purse
has been open to every call for funds from
the junta "we shall always respect and
revere him as patriot and honor him for
his bravery. But we must admit that in
breaking with General Shafter he has
made stupendous mistake, no matter
how real the slight he fancies he has re-
ceived appears TO him. / will go further
and say that even if Shafter has failed TO
treat Garcia and his men with perfect fair
ness and courtesy Garcia still has made
great blunder. am not in position to
say just what action the New York Gu
bans will take in the premises but il is
very certain that the Cuban generals in
the field will be fully informed of the feel
ing here and that the United States and
not Garcia will be supported by u.s.
lit would be madness for us 20 take
other action. 1t would be madness for
General Gomez and other chiefs in the
field TO support Garcia. That would delay
the very thing for which they and their
men have been fighting and for which we
have been giving up our money so many
years. Every Cuban who knows anything
of the situation knows that Spain never
could have been driven out of Cuba with
out the help of the United States. Garcia
hinCplf has admitted tarixr FOL nj
over again that unless the United States
took hand the Cuban cause must ulti-
mately fail. 1t would be possible for the
Cubans to keep up the fight for an indefl- |
mite period, but not an endless one The |
time must have come when the Cuban |
fighting men would be virtually wiped out |
by the process of determination, and then |
the Cuban cause would drop out of sight,
at least until new generation of fighting |
men had grown up
willing to Trust Uncle Sam.
1T may be that there are some Cubans
In New York who hold other views than
those L have expressed, but they are not
true friends of Cuba. They are political
self seekers and they will not be support
I'd by the mass of the Cuban community
here.
"We know very well that the insurgents
ire not fit to take up the reins of govern
nent now. We have expected that the
United States would extend its protecting
are over the island until its inhabitants
'ould be fit to take care of themselves.
Speaking for myself, will say that new
r should have contributed as have had
not been confident that your government
i may say our government perhaps, for
am naturalized American citizen
would not only help do the fighting, but
lso help start us on the road to the estab-
ishment of free institutions
Speaking for myself again-though l
now the majority Of educated, thought
III Cubans agree with mel will say
urther that 1 have never expected the in
ependence of Cuba to come until some
Ime after the close of the war, and 1 have