The evening times., 1897-05-25
HENRI R0CHEFORT's VIEWS
Europe Would Not Support Spain
in Defying This Country.
CUBAN LIBERTY ASSURED
Editor of LIntraHsigeant Publishes
His Conviction That the Cuban
Patriots VIII Continue Their
Struggle for Liberty Until Their
OppressOr Yields.

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the Herald says: Besides being editor-in-
chief OIL LIntransigeant, Henri ROchefort is
president of the Cuban committee orParis
This, according to some, discounts ieyalue
of his utterances on the Cuban question, as
bein6 dictated by sympathy. According to
others it gives them peculiar value, as being
based upon private Information Of especial
Importance.
| NJ. RochefoTt had just returned from a
| flying visit To tue country when he was in
terviewed this morning. He was Sanguine
OF the ultimate victory of the Cuban insur-
gents and was schaTacteristically Outspoken
| In his condemnation of Spanish rule and the
tactics OF the Spanish officials in Cuba both
military and civil. NJ Rochefort counts upon
the United States being forced To help the
! CGbans finally.
The insurgents he said, "are certainly
| rightin the object for which they are fight
| ing and they will as certainly secure their
| freedom. Iamina pOsitionto know, though
the relations have with the Cuban Organi-
| cations, both in France and in the island,
that the progress Of the reyoIutiOniS is salts
factory from the insurgents point Of view.
Spain is getting deeper and deeperin the
Inire every day. Her finances arein hope
less state ofinsolvency. She is about to at
tempt to raise another loan, an attempt
which is doomed TO failure.
This time 1T is certain that Spain will
not receive the support Of Europe to bring
the struggle in Cuba To an end. In fact, Eu-
rope Itself is in somewhat the same position
as spain is that's to say, in difficulty IL
was easy enough for Europe to say: We
will bind ourselves and make this famous
concert Of Europe, and impose conditions
upon Greece. We are not afraid of Greecer
OF course, Europe was not afraid. Greeceis
very little country, and has only its spirit
and courage TO depend upon, but in the case
Of Cuba IL is quite another matter.
Europe may not be afraid of Greece, but
she is mprtally afraid Of the United states
Certainly no European power will send
warshipS into Cuban waters TO help Spain,
or il war is declared between the United
states and Spain, will send vessels to be
sunk at the mouth Of New York harbor
Now, then, as far as the island is CON
Cerned, the insurgents are practically mas
terS Of the situation. / say practically, be-
cause it is true. The insurTection cannot |
be Cu1 1sidered at an end while Gen. Weyler !
is there with his Spanish troops. At the |
same time Weyler IS helpless, andis. in my |
opinion, both incapable and oowardly.
The insurgcnt spirit being undaunted, |
and Weyler being powerless. it only rernains |
TO be seen what action the United States |
will take-that is to say, Will President |
Mckinley keep his promises either in whole /
or in part? II he does then Cuba will be /
free within short time. | do not think it |
likely that President Mckinley will fail to /
take some action in connection with this /
question that will precipitate a crisis.
1T is certain that Spain alone will rot
dare to 60 10 war with the United States
A s | said before she has nc money. She has |
not even money enough to charter trans
ports, and certainly her finances are not
satisfactory enough for her 10 pay her
troops Thus after carefully reviewing |
for and against the question, l am firmly |
convinced that Cuban liberty is not far off,
whPtheTit bein the shape Of fanindependent
republic or in the shape of union with the
free States OF North America"
LIntransigeant this morning contains |
an extract from an article written by its
editor-in-chief for the Forum on this very
subiect In referring to American inter-
yention NJ. Rochefort says:
Il am firmly convinced that, aided or
unaided, the Cuban patriots VIII carry ON
the fight until the monster depressing them
abandOnsits prey. But meriCa-theS Saxon
and Latin America of Washington and
Bolivar-wfll not leave them without help
America would deny her principles, Ter
history, her destiny, II, in this mortal
combat between republican liberty and
monarchical despotism, between the future
and the past, she consented to let the latter
Strangle the former"
In direct oppoSit ion 70 the foregoing
view Capt NJ. A. de Maucry, in the
GaulOis this morning says The de-
ductiOn to he drawn from the affirma-iOns |
OF Premier Canovas III Madrid is that ne has
no doubt of the favorable issue Of the light
now going on in Cuba, and that the Cpti-
miStic hopes Of Gen. Weylcr are in a fair !
way Of being realized. In this we must
admit that he is not altogether wrong. or 7
without wiSEtin tOState that theinsurrection
Is on the ere OF complete repression or that
absolute order is to be re-eStahlished shortly .
in the Pearl Of the Antilles IL cannot aCUu-
tested that day by day the situation there
is becoming better, and that latterly, in
particular, it has taken turn sufficiently
to attenuate. if not to diSsipate
all the apprehensions as to the
final outcome"
For morbid conditions take BEECH
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