The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-07
A FAREWELL MANIFESTO
Gomez Urges the Necessity Of
Peace and Order.
NOT SOLDIERS, BUT MEN
The Basis OF Cuba's Future Welfare.
fractional Differences Should Be
Forgotten-All Classes Must
Work Together.

Havana, June 6-General Maxine
Gomez, the former commander-in-chief
of the Cuban army will issue his fare
well manifesto to-day. In substance 1t
will say:
''The mission I have been entrusted
with is nearly concluded. I have at
tempted to find a solution Of questions
concerning the army which I command
ed during the bloodiest war known in
Cuba. l am now leaving, regretfully,
to attend to. necessary private business.
"A parting word to the people to
whom l have sacrificed 80 years of my
life and to my friends in the army just
dsbanded, which action should have
been taken instantly after the removal
of the bloody weight of SPANS mercl-
less regime. We armed ourselves and,
therefore, we now no longer want sol
diers, but men for the maintenance of
peace and order, which are the basis of
Cuba's future welfare.
1T is necessary to understand that
the nation in this epoch. the most diff
cult in its history, should avail itself OF
the opportunity to show that it pos
caused by colonial government and the
harshness of war-like life. We wanted
and depended upon foreign intervention
to terminate the war. This occurred at
the most terrible moment of our con-
test and resulted in Spanish defeat. But
none of US thought this extraordinary
event. though followed by a military
occupation of the country by our allies,
who treat us as people incapable of
acting for ourselves and who have
reduced us to obedience, to submission
and to the tutelage imposed by force of
circumstances. This cannot be our ulti-
mate fate after the years Of struggle
and we should aid by every pacific
method in finishing the work Of organ
izing, which the Americans accepted in
the protocol, and which is as disagreea-
BILE for them as for ourselves. This aid
| will prove useless without concord
| among all the islanders Therefore it
| is necessary to forget past disagree
ments. to completely unite all and to
organize political party which is
needed in every country.
1T is always said that countries have
the government which they merit and
Cuba will have that which her heroism
entities her to-. To-day she can only
have one party in Cuba, with one OBJ
ject, that Of obtaining the aspiration Of
years.
I'VE must devote ourselves to pacific
| labors, gain the respect of the world
and show that though our war was
! honorable our peace must be more so:
We must make useless by our be-
! haVior the presence of a strange power
| in the island and must assist the Amer
leans to complete the honorable mission
they have been compelled to assume by
| force of circumstances.
This work was not sought by those
rich northerners, owners of a continent.
I think doubts and suspicious are un-
just. We must form Immediately a
committee or a club TO be a nucleus of
government. This will serve Cuba.
| Il as one of the first Cubans, al
though one of our last soldiers, and not
far from the grave, without passion OF
ambition, call on you with the sin
cerity of a father and urge a cessation
of the superfluous discussions and the
creation of parties of all kinds. which
disturb the country and tend to cause
anarchy
In this country there should not BIT
one man whom we consider a stranger
| To-day we no longer have autonomists
or conservatives, but only Cubans.
my mission having ended, I will alb
sent myself temporarily to embrace my
family, but l will return shortly tC
Cuba, which | love as much as my OWL
land.
MY last words for my soldiers are
that, as always, where my tent is the
Cubans have a friend"