The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-01-01

WHICH buo puulkC kuOW ptIlectky, ~ opUs-Hl5 W TIT
vulgar and ridiculous custom Of saying that We sup
port nlbusterism. when DID we ever deny there
were ilibussers IN Cabas When aid we ever
gents or ever attempt TO extenuate their conducty
IL Is precisely on this point thar the Igsaidad Occur
combated the alibusters OF every sDecies-nOt only
those VINO carry arms Ia their hands, but also the
aid them by their sympathies and resources and
those who lend them support even more enica-
cous by their scandalous abuses. We VIII and we
can say the truth both 10 the and the other for
we hav, neither respect nor consideration to give
those who have raised banner against the country,
Iude or OF party to cover the grand abuses. me un
exampled scandals, the corruption the real rotten
e TINS the WI ss
and we WIN repeat II thousand times
tive fllibustersm which has done nothing, or next
to nothing, to sunocate the instruction, although
In this same sense we have saf0 and We believe It
firmly. that II Cuba be eventually lost the principal
i Win not be the whose
and impotence are prOverbial but the government
people, who have not known now to direct the war
the high employees and the Captains General. We
repeat our belief IN this today, and we Will ampfy
Ism, possibly exaggerated, we have waited for the
conclusion Of the war In Cuba before denouncng
sCANDALoUs ABUSES or THE ADMINISTRATION
there we are now convinced that longer silence only
marine provinces. and does N no way contribute
TO their pacifcation. In denOuncing ABUSES
All Sf the In v. ana nave not
sSSlted, ,. either In much 81 in little. the
Peninsnars VINO have been 10 CUBA. we have only
number OF the employees OF Ultramar ana that OF the
Cabinets who appointed them, and this u done by
what we have SAID respecting the disorder In the
administration OF the Ultramar and the manifest
incapacity and immortality OF many OF the employees
who are sent out there with no other object than
enrich themselves n short space Of time, By any
been very moderate over this grave matter. Tor we
have not stirred up the immense and foul mire
which has risen hunured cubits above Its ordinary
level since the men OF ''Espaha con houra," and
with whom the dooruntes, OF Cuba have so many
ment Senior Ayaia and the other poets, and the
friends who surrounded them In the Ministry OF
uiate and moraiize q Vicious and corrupt
administration, much less to dominate and
Cataonian bard, Senior Balaquer, the one nitted to
put happy termination to tenacious war OF three
years duration winch has become chronic and whose
real and alarming state the government don't wish
reveal to us in Its completeness. 1t must not DO
forgotten that the insurrectiOn, which might easily
ing increase in little time after the going ous Of
General Dulce with the brilliant civil stafr (tstado
mayor civil who accompanied him, selected and
recruited by Ayala, Serrano Dulce and other con-
lemporaneons Influences They lost that good op-
h U s the true Of
country are ever sacrificed to the vanity OF becom-
Ing minister or to the interests OF band OF am.
those faults, which nave brought such fatal conse.
auences on the country. Unfortunately we scarcely
bOur Balaguer, Is Minister OF Ultramar, or while
Senior Malcampo Is at head OF the Cabinet or the
last hint il cut at General Bassols for he Is be.
lever Sprltualism and Is as well known for that
as Senior Balaguer Is for his poetic verses.
lIo. a1 FEARS FULFuLRD a.4i
page the Igualaad publishes an ultima hora OLA its
Our number Of to-day was already on the press
York, which We deem OF such importance that we
suspend the impression TO give 1t placc:-Our fears
prepared re so immense disgrace for our county
Let all Inspire ourselves In the principles Of pa
triotlsm aud Of democracy 70 conJure such fearful
There will be an inevitable MODIFICATION Of the Ministry in
81 hs
nr e @ a q ps o1 DC in vain
lesouts attitude can Spain stay the torrent OF pub
COMMENTS on THB ABOVE BY THE IGUALDAD.
Of sss On s s ;as
beautiful and opulent island. Nobody can
doubt that u Is deoloraoe in the interior and
international point Of view. The telegram sen. u
by the editor OF the only newspaper IN New
Spain, il very sensational. 1t places in relief the
danger Cuba Ia in, the elements IN whIch flIbus-
siuggishness which cnarscterlze the policy Of our
govern ment In the Cuban question, which Is IN
reality question Of national dignity and Of Inn.
mense and capital interest for Spain. In view OF
the course OF events unfortunately little nattering
which are being precipitated with surprising ra-
and resolutely into The question OF CUBA aud Of tell
Ing the country, without antiquities or reticences,
confiCImaoy to our loyal understanding and I'm
S o. es ,a has mo- been
q war whose pr0ximate end has been so often an.
nounced the elements the insurgents count on and
in which they found their hopes and who are those
who have been morally ana politically their accom-.
70 us, Spaniards. before AID above everything.
we are not afraid OF proofs In this or any other
question. II TILL now we have observed pruden,
silence, through apatriOuc duty. perhaps exaggera
we must speak the truth TO the country, however
much II may offend the government whose inapu-
rrena arI sv'Is and nnweyer c SO many
the official bawlers who have applauded all THEFT
misdeeds, and who, believing themselves or pre-
defenders OF the national integrity, have con
:nouted ny their torpid adulations and imprudenl
conduct to create tins grave conflict and perhaps
imminent danger to the country.
TO SURROGATE THE RESURRECTION
a 70 TO aye seen ss a. Island q cuba
general, followed by powerful SQUADRON
which could have rendered impossible ali com,
munlcation and intelligence between the insur-
gents ana their sympathiZers and helpers in the
United States. Nothing OF the Kind was
done. They went on sending out forces more or
less respectable, but In numbers little more than
sufficient to replace the natural losses tbds) pro-
duced by the climate and by the war. Tie generals
sent out have produced no results at all In the drec
lon OF their operations; possibly for want OF skill
or lor want OF forces or resources at any rate the
result has been sterile ana negative.
Neither did they send any squadron at all equal to
the necessity They preferred to keep our powerful
squadron idle In the Mediterranean at enormous
expense, with no other object than to sail from
Cartagena to Malaga, from Malaga to Barcelona and
escort to MontpenAcr, Or in his default If he has
no power TO impose himself, any one else willing 70
accept the same ONCE for salary Of goodly num-
Der OF millions OF reals ~' ~