The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-24
Favorably Received.

NEW YORK, April ga dispatch
to the World from Madrid says:
The report that an understanding is
about to be reached between Spain and
the United States in regard to Cuba,
is favorably received in financial and
commercial circles without stopping to
inquire whether the welcome news is
true or not.
According to the current story the
Spanish government is to grant to Gu
ba very soon home rule, on much
broader scale than contemplated in the
bills which have so far passed the cor
ties, and that this concession is to be
supplemented by tariff reforms and a
treaty of reciprocity to develop trade
between the United States and the
Spanish West Indies.
The Liberal says: The Spanish moth
ers whose 100000 sons are about to be
exposed to the deadly climate of Cuba
during the rainy season, the Spanish
taxpayers, who apprehended
THE CONSEQUENCES
of the heavy cost of a prolonger civil
war, indeed the whole nation at heart,
would gladly welcome the pacification
of Cuba by an early, sincere conces-
sion of reforms now admitted by al
most all Spanish politicians to be ur-
gent and inevitable.
1t is obviously the prevailing i'm
preston in many classes that the best
course for Spain to pursue is to bow to
the pressure of circumstances ere it
is too late, and to do with good grace
what possibly may yet prevent Cuban
independence, as representation and
misguided postponement of tardy con-
cessions may lead to a conflict with
America.
On the other hand, directly the lingo
papers perceive the drift of public
opinion, they will again start an anti
American campaign.
The Herald opened fire by affecting
to lament the decay of pride, patriot
ism and popular enthusiasm, predicting
the successive loss to Spain of her col
onfes all over the world through for
eign influence.
The Impartial follows suit, declaring
that the nation will never allow its
government to bow to American inter-
ference in favor of West Indian home
rule. It upbraids Senior Moret for adj
uniting the possibility of negotiating
with President Cleveland, whose adj
vances ought to be met with a clear,
decisive refusal
OTHER JINGO ORGANS
initiated lne Impartial uleIdSlIS Tic
monarchy and it's government with dire
consequences if President Cleveland is
not told to mind his own business. This
originated in the combined efforts of
the Cuban reactionary party and the
military mer, who wanted to utilize the
patriotic agitation famed by the jirSo
press to put pressure upon premier
Canoxas on the eve of the meeting or
parliament just when everybody knows
that American diplomacy will very
soon have to elicit from the Spanish
CABINET some precise and definite state
ments of its intentions. Marked hes
itation is again visible in official Cir
cles and the ministerial press seems
to have instructions to say that the
utmost that can be done is to carry out
in part the administration and eco an
ical reforms in Cuba and Porto Rico,
but not the political reforms until the
insurgents submit unconditionally-
Singularly enough the Madrid pa
pers publish minute details concerning
an important autonomist and separat-
ist agitation fast spreading among the
natives of the Philippine islands in the
east. Free Masons and foreigners are
accused of encouraging this movement.
whose promoters demand representa-
ton in the cortes, legislative assimila-
ton with the mother country and the
expulsion of the religious orders be-
cause friars and Jesuits more than
the Spanish authorities rule those col
cnies.