The herald., 1897-05-22
GROWERS
ATTITUDE
As Set Forth in De
Lome's Reply
POSSESSING NO GOVERNMENT
INSURGENTS wAGED A WAR OF
DESTRUCTION
POSSESSING NO GOVERNMENT
Not Being Entitled to Recognition
Spain Wanted No Interference
at All in Cuban Affairs
Associated Press Special Wire.

Associated Press Special Wire.
WASHINGTON, May 21-The reply
Of Dupuy de LONE, the Spanish minister,
to the offer made by Secretary Olney
government, contains the following Lam
guage, indicative of the attitude of the
last administration:
THE government of his majesty ap-
preciates to it's full value the noble
frankness with which that of the United
States has informed it of the very def
mite opinion it has formed in regard to
the legal impossibility of granting recog-
milton Of beligerency to the Cuban in
surgents
Indeed. those who are now fighting
in Cuba against the integrity of the
Spanish fatherland possess no qualifi-
cations emitting them to the respect or
even to the consideration of other coun-
tries; they do not, as your excellency
expresses it, possess any civil govern
ment organized with known seat, and
administration of defined territory, and
they have not succeeded in permanent
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city, large or small.
| Your excellency declares in the note
to which I am now replying, with great
legal acumen and spontaneously. that
it is impossible for the Cuban insurgents
to perform the functions of regular
government within its own frontiers
and much less to exercise the right and
fulfill the obliga tions that are incumbent
on all the members of the family of ma
tons. Moreover. the systematic cam
paign of destruction against all the in
dustries Of the island and the means
by which they are worked, would, OF IT.
self, be sufficient to keep them without
the pale Of the universally recognized
rules Of International law.
His majesty's government has no less
qualification in regard to the spontaneous
offer on the part of the government Of
the United States, but sees no advantage
In regard to the Cuban question its wish
being that the lawful sovereignty OF
Spain be maintained and even strength
ened through the submission of the reb-
els, which, as your excellency states in
your note. is of paramount necessity to
the Spanish government for the mainte-
nance of it's honor.
While expressing the high gratiflca-
ton with which his majesty's govern.
ment took note of the emphatic state
mentS which your excellency was pleased
to make in your note of the 4th Of April
with regard to the sovereignty Of Spain,
and the determination of the United
States not to do anything derogatory to
it. and acknowledging with pleasure all
the weight they carry, the Duke of Te-
tuan says that nothing else was to be
expected of the lofty sense Of the right
cherished by the government Of the
United States.
1T is unnece ssary, as your excellency
remarks, and in view of so correct and
friendly an attitude, to discuss the hy-
pothesis Of intervention, as it would be
utterly inconsistent with the. above
views.
"The government of his majesty. the
King of Spain fully concurs in the opin-
ion that your excellency was pleased to
express in regard to the future of the
island in the event which cannot and
shall not be Of the insurrection in it's
triumph
There can be no greater accuracy Of
judgment than that displayed by your
excellency, and as you said, with great
reason, such termination Of the con-
fict would be looked upon with the most
serious misgivings, even by the most
enthusiastic advocate of popular gov
ernment; because, as remarked by your
excellency, with the heterogeneous COM
bination of races that exist there the
disappearance of Spain would be the
disappearance of the only bond of union
which can keep them in balance and an
unavoidable struggle among the men of
different color, contrary to the spirit OF
Christian civilization would supervene.
The Spanish government is aware Of
the fact that, far from having justice
done on both sides, there are many per-
sons. obviously deceived by incessant
ISLANDERS, who honestly believe that
a ferocious despotism prevails in our
Antilles, instead of one of the most lib
eral political systems in the world, being
enjoyed there now as we'll as before the
outbreak of the insurrection.
"The government of his majesty and
the people of Spain wish, and even long
for, speedy pacification in Cuba In or
der to secure it they are ready to exert
their best efforts and at the same time
to adopt such reforms as may be useful
or necessary and compatible, of course,
with their snalienable sovereignty as
be accomplished.
The minister of state (the Duke Of
Tetuan), while directing me to bring to
tne knowledge Of your excellency the
foregoing viewe instructs me to remark
how pleased he was t. bserve that his
opinion on this point also agrees with
yours.
mo ore rs more fully aware of the se-
rioIIa evils, S,Iffe red hv fhes Sna N rIx
aliens in consequence of the insurrec-
tion than the government of his majesty.
1t realized the immense injury inflicted
on Spain by the putting forth, with the
unanimous cooperation and approba-
tion of her people, OF such efforts ae were
never before made in America or by
European country. 1t knows at the
same time that the interests from the
insurgent system of devastation. but is
the Insurgents should triumph the intts-