Daily Kennebec journal., 1896-11-13
SPAIN lnploaes HELe.
Loss d cuba Is Now Dreaded.

question Is: What will Spain do now tc
anticipate an administration sure te
recognize Cuban belligerency?'
| As IL to answer this question with ac
| tons more positive than promises the
| foreign office in Madrid bestirred Itself
% The Mef@fsaay pake y retuan then received the
| news from Washington which he has
| awaited for three months so eagerly and
yet SO fearfuliy:. Cipher dispatches were
sent at once to spain's representatives a.
European courts, and these were fol-
lowed with special Instructions. all re-
garding the Spanish cabinets apprehen-
In other words this ruin OF Castilian
queen, with her rags and squalor hidden
under the royal ermine, has again set ou,
on a pilgrimage from palace to palace In
Europe's capitals. She has set out to be-
for help in her extremity-money, II pos
sible; otherwise. some old ships OF even
credit at some nations shipyard or finai,
ly. merely words of encouragement. and
promises of protection in case anybody
assais her dignity or her crumbHng en-
pire. 1t is the appeal of "A mendlcant who
has seen better days to companions and
associates among whom she once passed
as an equal.
ii is an exhortation to Cousin William
Austria Hungary, Cousin" Nicholas oi
Russia Cousin Iumbert Of Italy and
my great and good friend" Felix Faure
kind and to help her lest b., her utter mis-
cry she bring disgrace and revolutionary
peril on them ard their children.
1t is noteworthy that this abJect appeal
IS not falling on such deadened ears as
were turned to II when 1T was last made
1t is noteworthy that others have take.,
up. in more or less gingerly manner. the
cause of this beggar queen. and. though
rot doing anything to help her directly,
have recommended her to near friends a.
worthy of assistance.
The influence OF these cautious backers
viii be felt within the next two or three
weeks. 1t will be evident not only in the
increasing friendiness of many newspa-
per editors for Spain but also in the
greater cordiality with which Spain's am
bassadors will be received when they APP
pear with their complaints against the
North American union.
II will come from three sources and will
be due 10 three independent causes
The most important of these causes Is
financial. The money which mas DUH
Spain's railroads. many of her factories
and large part of her warehouses came
from France. The hundreds of millions |
in the Spanish railways were obtained |
under government guarantee.
If Spain should lose Cuba-and tGat IL |
what American recognition would mean
The whole Spanish peninsula would rise
wipe out the obligations of the railways
Of the French capitalists.
There has been much wondering here
: nj there as to the recent outbursts OF
ihe Paris subsidized press against Ameri-
can Intervention in Cuba. Nobody need
wonder If he viii take the troub,, 10 reI1
! he history. Of latter day stock jobbing in
Madrid and Paris.
Tine Paris press Is not moved by any
greet diplomatic considerations; IL is not
moved by any of the hifalutin principles
4 human rights to which ii so frequently
appeals: II is moved simply by the francs
md cenfimes which its patrons have in
sested In Spanish railways and wish 10
get ont
But this is not all. If the sick govern
nent in Madrid can be nursed along in
he proper manner. the French capita lists
: ft.l -l..r f1sxf nt1fx -1aFet hair
present investments. but double and
lnadruple their value.
All the world knows about Spain's l.
sl9.000.o00 peseta loan that has been
hawked about from ST. Petersburg to
Lisbon and from Rome 10 London. with
10 takers. Now the French capitalists
ondition that all their rights and privi-
ieges be extended for one century.
If the Madrid government can be KEEP
on it's legs to grant and sustain this new
-oncession the French money Lenders
will make 800, 0o0.000 their investment
within ten years, owing to the increased
value of their railway stock. I.
OF course. American recognition of Gu
ban belligerency. would ruin the whole
hence the denunciations and
hurled at Washington from tbs
subsidized newspaper offices of Paris
There is no reason to believe that the
French government will back up this !
stock kjobbing bluff. The financial influence |
will bear strongly on the government, bur ,
probably will not move il. in any case. |
wen to a vote of protest. Spanish dreams
VI armed intervention by France are vain. |
The French owners of the Spanish rail
ways would not advocate it, as il would
,ost them more than 1t would come to
py a pacific bluff.
Above all things Russia has refused
steadfastly, not only this week but Otter
spains behalf. and this refusal will ot
decisive for France as long as the
'ranco-Russian understanding endures.
favor is from the vatican. Spain is th'
most faithful child in Europe
The whole clergy of the country is hear
and soul with the government in the
accurately the attitude of the vatican.
While not in any way encouraging hos
vatican has been intent on leaving Spair
unembarrassed in her efforts to crush
he Insurgents The Austrian govern
nent has been informed of this and tn,
spurred to action. has brought into play
he third influence in Spain's favor. name
The queen regent of Sapn. Maria Chris
ina. is Hapsburger. She belongs to the
imperial house whose tragic history reach
IS from the devastated palaces of Mexico
to the insane asylums on the Danube anu
on the Meuse.
Her course in Sapin is watched with in
tense anxiety at the Hofhurg. where the
bygone news of murder. insurrection ana
suicide has shaken the nerves and made
faint the hearts of the reigning family.
The progress of the war in Cuba has
been followed at noother court of Europe, !
outside of Madrid with such interest a
i'll Vienna. where ii is felt that loss OF |
Cuba would mean revolution in SPAR |
and another royal tragedy in Madrid. II |
was due to this feeling that Austria was
one OF the two powers advising Spain som. |
two months ago to send to all the power |
a protest against the attitude of the |
United States to Cuba.
Thus it happens that Spains cause in |
Berlin is being pleaded not only by hei |
own representative. but also by Ausirias |
Emperor William in the last two days ha |
been besought repeatedly TO consider seri |
ously joint diplomatic action on the par, |
of. the triple alliance and France in be- |
half of Spain in Cuba.
This action would be purely diplomatic |
would not cost man or a gun or even 6 |
rowboat. 1t would be merely a diploma |
tic bluff in behalf of a sister monarchy |
and a member of an allied reening house |
Nevertheless the Emperor has not beer |
won over. Not but that he looks with alb |
horrence on the sympathetic attitude o. |
the American nation and with apprehen- |
sion on the expected recognition of the |
insurgents by the Mckinley administra- |
ton. He does both. vet at the same tims |
he realizes that France is not likely to |
Join any concert. that Russia Is certain |
not to. that Italy's interests lie in another |
direction. and that Austria's motives |
II ma