The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-30
CASTELAR, ON AMERICA.

Senior Castelar,, well and favorably
known in this country as a statesman
and writer, is greatly incensed at Pres
ident McKinley's tender of the good
offices of this country to Spain in the
matter of the Cuban rebellion. He says
whenever Olney or Cleveland presented
their ''unrealizable scheme of friendly
mediation" it has seemed to him that
this country, by these very offers, has
confessed completely in the Cuban in
surrection. He must have a very
strange notion of completely in Cuban
affairs if he considers offers of friendly
mediation to be such. What did he eX-
pect when the Republican party sue
ceeded the Democratic to power? eve
imagined says Senior CASTELAR,, and
with reason, that upon the assumption
of power by the Republicans, conse-
quent upon the election of new presi-
dent. America would desist from it's
foolish attempts, leaving it to US, the
Spaniards, to arrange, as God
might give US to understand,
our mutual differences and ter
inmate our civil wars. But the ire
mendous blunder had assumed among
Americans so general character, such
dangerous universally, that hardly
had the new president taken the oath
of Office before he sent to US an ambas-
sador with instructions to demand from
us an account of the condition of our
civil war and to promise us friendly
settlement; accounts and settlements
which appeared to us gross insolence,
for which there is no pretext in inter
national right, and which, if admitted
or sanctioned by US, would relegate us
to that barbarous age when might was
right and the most powerful states
were accustomed to disregard the free
entities called nations, and to impose
upon them their codes and forms of
! government without having to render
account to any one in this world, unless
to a still greater power, of the use they
made of those prerogatives which are
profoundly congenital to their existence
and organism
All that shows deep and bitter feel
ing, and considering the desperation of
SPANS fortunes, not unnatural, per-
haps. But the senior leaves deep feeling
for rather high-fown rhetoric when he
says:
And the claims of America and the
complaints of America and the trou-
bles of America are the more scandal
! Gus because from there comes the help
which enables the Cubans to thrive.
Great subscription lists for their benefit
are opened; the suicidal temerity of the
rebels is encouraged; public enroll
ments, to interfere in our internal quar-
rels, are contrived; piratical expeditions
TO sweep labor and commerce from yon-
der seas are continually armed, and the
| foolish hope is kept alive that the col
ony will be able TO break the ties that
! bind her to the mother country; ties
which God himself united in space and
time, and which God alone would be
! able to break, vanQuishing with the
! tempest of his celestial wrath the in
vincible Spanish nation.
| Surely that talk about God himself
having, in time and space, formed the
ties that bind Cuba to Spain and which
ne alone is able to break, sounds ex-
ceedingly quixotic. The .'invinciblf
Spanish nation" is quite as good as the
invincible knight Of La Mancha. But
Senior CASTELAR, denounces well if moi
wisely, and it is real pleasure to reac
his denunciations.