San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-04-23
SPAIN is MIXED.
Divided As to Her Cuban Policy Between
Pride and Visible Necessity.

ITlu6 anu NlSlulo N0OOooltJ'
New YORK, April pa dis
patch to the World from Madrid,
says: The report that an under
standing is about to be reached
between Spain and the United
States in regard to Cuba is favora-
bly, received in financial and COM
mercial circles, without stopping
to inquire whether the welcome
news is true or not. According to
the current story, the Spanish gov
eminent is to grant to Cuba home
rule, on much broader scale than
the bills which have so far passed
the cortes, and this concession is
to be supplanted by tariff reforms
and treaty Of reciprocity to de
velop trade between the United
States and the Spanish West
Indies.
The Ell Liberal says: 9Th
Spanish mothers, whose 10000
sons are about to be exposed to
the deadly climate of Cuba during
the rainy season, the Spanish tax
payers, who apprehend the conse-
quences of the heavy cost Of pro.
longed civil war, and indeed the
whole nation at heart, will gladly
welcome the pacification OF Cuba
by an early and sincere concession
of reforms now admitted by all
Spanish politicians to be urgent
and inevitable"
1t is obviously the prevalent i'm
preston in many classes that the
best course for Spain to pursue is
to bow to the pressure and circum-
stances ere it is too late, and do
with a good grace what possibly
may yet avert Cuban independence,
as procrastination and misguided
postponement OF tardy concessions
may lead to conflict with
Am erica.
On the other hand, directly the
lingo papers perceive the drift of
public opinion they again started
an auti-American campaign.
The Heraldo opened fire by Ia
menting the decay Of pride, pa
triotism and popular enthusiasm,
predicting the successive loss to
Spain Of her colonies all over the
world through foreign influence.
Ell impartial follows suit, de-
claring that the nation will never
allow it's government to bow to
observation-disclosures in favor Of
West Indian home rule. 1t upbraids
Senior Morett for admitting the
possibility of negotiating with
President Cleveland, whose "ad-
vance ought to be met with clear,
decisive refusal"
Other lingo organs Initiated the
impartial, menacing the monarchy
and it's government with dire con-
sequences II President Cleveland
is not told to mind his own bust
ness.
This gasconadiag originated in
the combined efforts of the Cuban
reactionsry party and the military
men, who want to utilize the patri-
otto agitation famed by the lingo
press, to put pressure upon Premier
Canovas on the eve Of the meeting
OF parliament just when every
body knows that American
diplomacy will very soon have to
elicit from the Spanish cabinet
some precise and definite state
ment of its intentions. Marked
hesitation is again visible in off,
cial circles and the ministerial
press seems to have instructions to
say that the utmost that can be
done is to carry out in part the
administrative and economical
reforms in Cuba and Porto Rico,
but not politically reforms until
the insurgents submit uncondi-
tionally. Singularly enough the
Madrid papers publish minute de-
tails concerning an important
autonomist and separatist agita.
tiop, fast spreading among the ma
tions OF the PHILIPPINE Islands in
the east. Free masons and for
eigners are accused of encouraging
this movement, whose prominent
promoters demand recognition in
the cortes, legislative assimilation
with the mother country, and the
expulsion OF the religious orders
because friars and Jesuits, more
than the Spanish authorities, rule
those colonies.
Quay's Queer Proceedings.