Birmingham state herald., 1897-05-22

published in recent years would suffice to show that few civilized countries then enjoyed to an equal degree freedom of though. and of the press-the founda- ton of all liberties
 '"Tlhe government of his majesty and the peoples of Spain wish and even long for the pacification of Cuba. In order to secure it they are ready to exert thear best effore, and at Rhe same time to acopt such reforms as may be useful or necessary and compatible, of course, with their inalienable sovereignty, as soon as the submission of the insurgents be an accomplished fact.
 "Th= minister of state, while directing me to bring to the knowledge of your ex- cellency the foregoing views, instructs me t0 remark how pleased he is to ob- serve his opinion on this subject agree with yours.
 No one is more fully aware of the se- rious evils suffered by Spaniards and aliens in consequence of the instruction than the government of his majes.y. It realizes the immense injury inflicted on Spain by the putting forth, with the unanimous cooperation and appreciation of her people of such efforts a s were never before made in. America by an European country. IL knows at the same time the interests of foreign industries and trade suffer as well as the Spanish interest in the fnSurrect.onnry policy of deVaS.ationl; but if the insurr ction should triumph, the interests of all would not merely sui fer, bu& entirely and forever disappear amid the madness of perpetual anarchy.
 Tt has already been said that, in order to preven: evils of such magnitude, the cabinet of Madrid does and will not con fine itself. exclusively to the employment of armed forces.
 ''Fhr speech from the throne, read by the national representatives, formally promised mo1tu proprie not only that all was previously granted voted by the cor teS and sanctioned by her ma jeSty on the 18th of March 1S96 would be carried into effect as soon as the opportunity offered, bu. also by fresh authorization of the corteS all the new extensions and amend menhs of the original reforms, to the end that both islands may in the adminis- tra tive department possess a personnel of a local character that the intervention Of the mother country, in their domestic concerns, may be dispensed with, with the single res@rva tion that nothing will be done to impair the rgh.s of soYer- eighty or the powers of the government to preserve the same. This solemn prom is, guaranteed by the august word of his majesty will be fulfilled by the Spanish government with a true liberality of views.
 "The foregoing facts being better known every day will make 1t patent to the fair minded people of other nations that Spain, far from proposing the sub Jec:s in the West Indies, should return to a regime unfit for the times when she enjoys such liberal laws, would never have withheld the same laws from the island had it not been for the increasing separaltiSt conspinacies which compel her to look, above all, to self defense.
 The government of his ma jesty most heartily thanks that of the United States for the kind advice it bestows on Spain, but it wishes to state and entertains the confidence that wi d fly see that 1t has been forstal Hing for a long time past. It follows therefore as matter of course that it will comply with 1t in practical manner as soon as circumstances make 1t possible.
 Your excellency will have seen, new ertheless, how the announcement of this concurrence of views has been received.
 The ins urgents, elstel by tn strength, which they have acquired through the aid of certain number of citizens of the United States have contemptuously re- pelled, by the mediums of the Cubans re- siding in this republic, any idea that the government of Washington can intervene in the contest by advice or any other manner on the supposition that the dec lara ations of disinterestedness on the part of the government of the United States are false and it wishes to get possession of the island one of these days. Hence it is evident that no success would at- tend such possible mediation, which they repel, even dd1nlltlnB that the mother country would condescend to treat with it's rebellious subjects as one power with another thus surely jeopardizing it's fu- ture authority detracting from it's na- tional dignity and impairing its inde- pendence for which it has at all times shown such great earnestness as history teaches. In brief, there is no effectual way to pacify Cuba unless 1t begins with the actual submission of the armed rebels to the mother country"
 The remaining portions of Senor De Lome's letter were read by MT. Foraker in the senate Wednesday and were in- cluded in these dispatches at that time.
 Following the offer by Secretary Olney of mediation by the United States off COTS of the Cuban junta were quoted as rejecting intervention on the lines sug- gested. The Spanish minister's state ment that the insurgents through their agents in the United States contemptu ously repelled intervention refers to the attitude assumed by the junta.