These volunteers are violently enraged against the proposed Home Rule,
and in addition have another grievance against the Government.

They have been in the habit of doing the kid-glove soldiering of the
island, mustering and parading in handsome uniforms; their heaviest work
has been to occasionally go on guard duty at the palace, where the
Captain-General lives, or at the bank.

General Blanco is anxious to suppress the revolution, and, wishing to
make use of every man who can carry arms, decided to put this idle force
into the field.

This the volunteers refused to submit to. It is said that they will
mutiny rather than undertake any useful duties.

Perhaps a little ashamed to state the true cause of their anger, they
have laid it all to the score of Home Rule, and declare that if Spain
cannot protect them they would rather submit to American government than
be ruled by Cubans.

The disaffected volunteers have declared their intention of wearing the
white badge of Don Carlos, and will appeal to him rather than allow the
hated Home Rule to be carried out.

In Spain, also, the Carlist party is making strong protests against the
establishment of Home Rule, and it is thought that Don Carlos will seize
this measure as a pretext for coming forward and making one more effort
to gain the throne of Spain.

Several of the Spanish journals have begun to speak of him as "the