The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-14

. ,4tT annexation President ,reffersoptt. q .,s, ready stretched thea Constit tftIo n Z, 1t. cracked" by the purchase osS ss.'i iana. and he declined the spror0sss,s.a. From that dayfuntii this there bss' saS q. :. KY peen session of Congress al .yvssS : Ingt2n that has not heard. some .Sis- cusslon or the +%prOpositioh .to,t anneG s,u' A greater rsnumberpoff people 6e. !ieve, In 1t now that ever efoSe, z .,sss Deca use they !are advocates. of a,inazS: |: tons but ,becatses they believe .a r,i, srs ton is' the onlys possible means of es1- tlng a vexing problem. ,t, ,,, saf
 American fihusters were :. in mart. nerships with Cuban patriots fra,,,, th l. early days of the Union nkiii gSa <, - - driven froms the Western Henni snh srsf Eor many decades the sffuGxieE : iSi uuDa were sporadic and their only eff. rect was to cause the purblind. SpafiIsh government, to adopt tharsfer and more restrictive measures to fcrush the spirff or liberty: The revolutionary esuisis reeds on oppression, ana the scsuf,a yss Knew what. the. Spaniards did roy. thaf the tlme Tor the great and sfina1 afrIfG. gle could not be long delayed. x ' f1 GThe Ten Tears War; which ha9sn- -'s, Ss.. 1868 and ended fin 1878, WAS sse1 h,, the people of the eastern. end of Sthe is. land tand did not affect the rfchsr provinces of the west. < Ie lsticceedSd
 largely on aecounttot tine revolutloiaEy Ey politics at Madrid. in forcing the goy. ernmentS to grant many 7concessio,is
 For the first time the, Cubans were s,lv- en representation. in the SpaTiSh Cortes, and Cubans were permitted. fo hold ofiice in'the local government. rhe liberal concessions looked we'll on pa . per. hut the Cubans soon found that they were on paper only. . : s-'' fan AnG. t.Nf - -. el were In exile, some: in Spain,- some In Santo Domingo. some in. Costa Rfca ana some in the. United States. They di0 not cease to dream, of Cuba LIbfe.~ ana
 they resolved that the next sreVuiuSio on i should be successful The conservatfSee were contenting themselves with ssri tating the demand for autonomy. BuV out aneng the-plain people. in secret meetihgs and by all sorts of, methods the Apostle of Freedom, Jose Mafti, was preaching the doctrines of liberty.
 Finally the time came to ssrike. .S Joae Marti offered the. cofnmand of tife rev. olutionary army to Maximo Gomez. Vvhc was in Ganto Domingo, and q hllxh piace was given to Antonio Maceo, who EykaT l in Central America. In the Uniteu States the Cuban Junta was hard | a, work, raising funds snd flttIng ont, nili- bustering expeditions. Tomas Estrads Palma was in New Yefl and Gonsalo dG Ouesada was Tn wabhington, and each was doing most effective WoFk PdlFlas lived to be the first Presidenk,s of EliS recognized republic. swas. himself over. l thrown by 9e ,4 revolution and died. lT poverty and obscurtty Quesada is atfI
 the Cuban Minister at" WAshingsoM.
 Within few weelRs after the wal was started, MaPti gave up his fife fol the cause. mex and Maeeo worISet \ together. They evolved and carried tF,. to effect a general plan of military op. erations which would have reflected credit upon any commander under liks circumetanees. They carried sthe wal from the eastern provinces straight
 through tlie island to the weBtsrnuacsi | tip Of land. Maoeo's i''west6fn invAstnn' was dsvastatinE, hut itswas-war. { < Tael