The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-09
Our Soldiers Suffer From the Long Marches
in the Philippine Jungles.
TORMENTED BY NIGHT ATTACKS
OF the Insurgents Upon Our Lines of BreastworKs-The Former Fire
Into u Camp at San Fernando Nightly With a Krupp Gun.
Morong Peninsula Occupied, but the Enemy Escape
Through Our Lines-VoIunteersP Preparing to Re.
turn Home-General Gomezs Address to
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selves, and who have reduced US to
obedience, to submission and to a
tutelage imposed by force of circum-
stances. This cannot be our ultimate
a after the years of struggle, and
we should aid by every pacific method
in finishing the work of organizing,
which the Americans accepted in the
protocol, and which is as disagreeable
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 eie-
ments and to organize g political party,
which is needed in n country.
1T is always said that countries have
the government which they merit and
Cuba will have that which her heroism
entities her to. Today she can only
have one party in Cuba, with n OBJ
ject, that of obtaining the aspiration
of years. We must devote ourselves to
pacific labors, gain the respect of the
world and show hat though our war
was honorable, our eac must be
more so.
I'VE must make useless, by our be-
havior, the presence Of a strange pow
er in the isl" ID nj must assist the
Americans to complete the honorable
mission they have been compelled to
assume by a force of circumstances.
This work was not sought by those rich
northerners, owners of a continent. I
think doubts and suspicion are unjust.
We must form Immediately a commit
tee or club to be a nucleus of a govern
ment. This will serve Cuban interests
purely and act as an aid to the inter-
VenerS
Il, as one Of the first Cubans, al
though of our last old soldiers and
not far from the grave, without pas
sions or ambitions, call on you with
the sincerity of a father and r q
cessation of the superf1uous discus
sions and the creation of parties of all
kinds which disturb the country and
tend to aus anarchy. In this country
there should be one man whom we
could consider a stranger. Today, we
no longer have autonomists or con-
servatives, but only Cubans.
MY mission having ended, l will
absent myself temporarily, to embrace
my family, but I will return shortly to
Cuba which I love as much as my own
land.
MY last words for my soldiers are
that, as always, where my tent is the
Cubans have a friend"
The farewell manifesto of General
Gomez is the principal topic Of CONVEX
sation among Americans and Cubans
of all shades of politics. The Ameri-
cans, for the most part, consider it an
affecting address, expressing the real
views of the old patriot, and also his
sincere intention to retire from public
life. His Cuban admirers say the ad-
dress will rank among the most ia
nous in history. His opponents ,espe-
cially the members Of the former mil
itary assembly, insist that he has no
intention to retire for more than a few
| weeks and that his real object is to
gain public sympathy. They say also
hat Colonel Carlos CeSDedeS virtually
writes the greater part of what Gomez
issues to the public, though, in this
instance, probably a third was written
by Gomez himself.