. The Cuba review. Cuba -- Periodicals. THE CUBA REVIEW. 23 las Just Been Hauled Down and the Cuban Flag Raised, Noon of March 31, 1909. ^. Corps of Engineers, U. S. A. Cuban Officers, Three at Left Gen. O. Barry- American Officers 27th Infantry, U. S. A. Cuban Kural <. uaid arms against Spain and winning the title of major when he was no more than a youth. Over that most exquisite instrument of imaginative emprise, the Latin temperament in Cuba, Gomez exerts a control quite in- comprehensible to Americans who have seen it displayed. He imbues or seems to imbue the patriotic conceptions of
. The Cuba review. Cuba -- Periodicals. THE CUBA REVIEW. 23 las Just Been Hauled Down and the Cuban Flag Raised, Noon of March 31, 1909. ^. Corps of Engineers, U. S. A. Cuban Officers, Three at Left Gen. O. Barry- American Officers 27th Infantry, U. S. A. Cuban Kural <. uaid arms against Spain and winning the title of major when he was no more than a youth. Over that most exquisite instrument of imaginative emprise, the Latin temperament in Cuba, Gomez exerts a control quite in- comprehensible to Americans who have seen it displayed. He imbues or seems to imbue the patriotic conceptions of his fellowers with the overwhelming charm and the irre- sistible appeal of his own personality. His physique and his voice alike have limitations, yet he looks great and he talks eloquently. His influence over his followers, even in the now remote days when he camped with them in the Cuban hills, ragged, hungry and hunt- ed, has always been a thing of the emotions. a triumph of the heart over the head, a vic- tory of feeling over intellect. Time and again, when the Cubans in arms seemed about to disperse from despair, to disinte- grate in desperation, when the ten-years' war was one long starvation, when the last re- volt of all had brought Weyler to Havana, Gomez rallied his followers anew, receiving the allegiance of men still inflamed with the patriotic ardors it was his privilege alone to inspire. At critical junctures in more than one revolution his passage from one part of a province to another was signalized as far away as Havana by the restored vigor of the campaign. He derived his theory of strategy and hit mastery of tactics from his native soil. He seems to have had little experience with artillery, and he has never commanded a respectable force of cavalry; but with the sort of infantry available in his native isle he has accomplished what European mili- tary men have pronounced magnificent re- sults. When the revolution comes again to Cuba, the histrionic Latinity o
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