The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-05-19
GoNEz's MANIFESTO.
Cuban General Issues an APP
peal to His People.
BROOKE DIsoBEYs PRESIDENT.

Varies From the Instructions That Cuban
Soldiers Must Surrender Arms to the
United States Oficers-May Delay Dis
tribution of the s3,0O0,ooo to the Gu
ban Army.
HAVANA, May l9.-The expected man
ifesto of General Maxine Gomez was
issued last evening. 1t reviews his part
in the negotiations with Governor Cen
eral Brooke and speaks of his love for
Cuba and his sufferings on her behalf in
the past.
General Gomez says: s'The hour has
now arrived for me to raise my voice in
justification of my position and to de-
scribe the arduous work have done
since my first visit to General Brooke.
protested to him against the sum Of
fered by the United States as INSULT
cient to accomplish the good intended.
While waiting an answer to my protest,
sought a solution of the question.
General Brooke, representing the chief
magistrate of the United S6ates, an
nounced his inability to add to the sum
already settled upon. Spectators then
attempted to intervene, offering sugges-
tions, which were refused by me. They
presented proposition to the military
assembly, but the scheme was frus-
trated by President McKinley's refusal
to recognize that body. I deemed the
formation Of militia practical solu-
ton, and General Brooke, who approved
the idea, asked me for a summary of
my views on the subject. To this, re-
piled that 10000 men were all it would
be possible to get from the former Gu
ban army without distinction as to race.
My answer was sent to President Nc
Kinley, together with a personal letter,
giving explicit reasons why such a
course was necessary.
II had many conferences with Gen
eral Brooke in my endeavors to discover
such a plan of payment as would ex-
clude the men who had never carried
arms. General Brooke insisted upon
the surrender of arms before the receipt
of money. The Cuban commissioners,
however, refused to agree with General
Brooke and declined to fix dates and
places where the Cuban soldiery could
deliver up arms and receive payment
from the American paymasters after
Identification by their respective
chiefs y
After further praise of General
Brooke's consideration" and declara-
ton of his own desire to correct an
error existing III Cuba with respect to
the United States, he goes on to say:
olv fC ic fCv 10,
your homes with the amounts offered
by the intervening government and to
practice patience. Let no pretext inter-
fere with the attainment of the inde-
pendent government for which three
generations of Cubans have struggled
with all sacrifice and which is now
promised by a noble nation pledged to
obtain for us our rights.
meanwhile shall remain where I
am generously invited. among the Gu
bans. l shall work without cessation
for our aspirations and in narrow
sphere assigned to me if necessary. And
if it happens that all logical and just
methods shall be exhausted without the
desired result, 1 will go to Washington
and there tell Of Cuba and her sacred
ideals of an independent republic, and
will arbitrate the destiny of our coun-
try, baptized with blood and sanctified
with our love Of independence and lib
erty, which we will never cease de-
manding in tones of subtlest diplomacy,
for the sake of the nation that is to be
in the near future, always asking that
independence and liberty which we
covet in the name of right, civilization,
| justice and democracy"