Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-12-07


Cuban question as it is to be consid
cred independently of the forma
diplomatic transactions between thi:
Government and Spain, is doubles:
presented in the following:
ACul,an gentleman Nho returned fror
Washington this morning. states that he
conversed with Secretary Fish and sew
eral Senators. and they assured him that
any further diplomacy with Spain on the
VIryinius question would lie declin cd.
They believed the Spanish authorities in
Cuba would refuse to accede to the prop
ositions of the protocol and war would
probably be the consequence.
The fact is 10 less obvious now
than it has been for years past that
the home rule in Cuba has been
merely nominal. and that the lever
faithful Isle" is poor old SPANS
most pitiles. and insoient bully. The
bearing of this nominal dependency
toward the Spanish Government has
been that of an opulent AMI purse
proud adopted son toward his de-
crepit and bankrupt step-mother.
The whim of government has been
indulgeti: but the real cause of af-
fairs has been as dictated by tho rich
merchants and planters Of the Island.
indeed. why should it not be so?
Cuba Is wealthy: Spain Is poor; the
money balances have all along been
in favor Of Spain-for she has had
the family prideto sustain, the offices
to fill, and the salaries to draw; and
Cuba, aided by the Almaden re-
sources has supported the throne. or
the regency, or the Republic, as the
case might be at home. But when
Il comes to so serious a matter as in
sisting upon thing being done that
Cuba don't want to have done, Spain
will be shown to have about as little
TO say as any other dotard concern
ing the management of her passionate
and heaistrong and arrogant sons
fortune and household. And it must
never be lost sight of, that the uni
versal feeling among the Spanish
loyalis.s in Cuba is that of inlplaca-
BE and ungovernable hatred and de-
testation of the Government and
people of the Unite; States THIS
feeling, intensified by sense Of bit
ter dignity which IS little short of a
ilonomania, renders tolerance and
temperance of official and personal
bearing impossible; and these mad
men will precipitate an irrecoacilable
state of difference between US and
them with a CALLING and fierce con-
tempt which will manifest itself as
we'll with reference to consequences
as to causes. We of the North have
no rules Of action of our own that
can be applied to these naughty and
uncompromising Dons. Prudence
is a virtue they spit upon. Tolerance
Of opposition is simply an inadmissi-
BILE weakness. The irrepressible
conflict between the United States
and such an arrogant high strung and
peppery neighbor as this can only be
postponed-it cannot be averted. As
20 the morale of this matter It finds
expression as we'll IS sustentation in
the acknowledged organ Of the Brit
ish Government-the London Times.
that England will unreservedly
support q policy which requires that
Spain must really as we'll rs nomi- |
nally control Cuba" So that. when !
we come to hold Spain responsible
for whatever Cuba may do in viola
ton Of international amity, England,
at least, will lend us the moral SUP
port of friendly neutrality. And to
Ieal with the subject as it is entitled
10 be dealt with, Congress should
EEL, when the hopeless Offices Of
peace and compromise are all es-
lausted. as they soon will be, that
L.. . JaoIaro{;on IF war iS nm act of