New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-01-09
EUROPE AND CUBA.
-, ouAr1c vAGARlEs coNTRAsTED
WITH ECONOMIC FAcTs-wHAT IN
TUE LAST ANALYSIS Is SIMPLY
SUGAR QUESTION.

=. s;rs out what Is going on In the world.
"' g. mt ,nfal,ible His statement that the
ou. have warned the United States that they
"a not remain passive II the American Gov
go "-,.r, were TO recognize the Cuban insurgents
=. generally discredited. His disclosure OF
academic conversations with view to the
ton Of an international syndicate against
..,.,,sm." is ridiculed as fiction as flimsy as
n.,e,;a.s dreams THE Westminster Gazette"
N.'r,,,ses that England Is to be asked to put
,..r the Cuban rebellion after receiving secret
..surances that Spain will send an Armada to
sss,s, in suppressing Tom Mann and the indie
,.ndent Labor party. and playfully adds that
.,s pantomime- writer's must feel themselves out
acme in their own game. Certainly NJ. de BIO
-,,v is not to be taken seriously when he init
mates that there Is any connection between So
.aI,sm and American sympathy for Cuba Eng
,.b sympathy for Greece Italy or Armenia
light with equal faulty be described as Social
isc.
The French Foreign once would naturally re-
..,ve the earliest suggestions for international
,,sasures In defence of Spain. Paris has been
,,e chief market for Spanish securities. and the
a,ancial syndicates Of that capital are directly
,,,erested in the suppression OF the Cuban re-
s.,uon and the liquidation Of the war debt.
r,. mower Of financial syndicates in European
a,,omacy has been repeatedly demonstrated.
nd perhaps 1t is exercised more absolutely in
por;s than in any other European capital. The
r,snch Foreign ONCE will naturally he subject
"A N tremendous pressure in any crisis of the re-
,.,ions between Spain and the United States.
The emergency has not yet arisen. hut the fnan-
c,sr-dplomatists Of Paris may have been fore
oos,,nr II as a possible contingency. The "aca-
dsm,c conversations" respecting a European
league for the defence of Spain against Ameri-
csn aggression and an outbreak Of so-called So
c,asm may probably be traced to conferences
a, ananciers holding large blocks of Spanish Sc
curities.
THE GERMAN EMPEROR DRAGGED IN
The German Emperor has been dragged into
these mysterious complications. apparently
without other reason than his general reputation
,or being restless and anxious to have finger
., every pie He is assumed to he seriously con-
cerned over the fate Of the Spanish MONARCHY
md bent upon preventing catastrophe the ef-
facts NJ which would he felt in Berlin. VIENNA
Rome and ST. Petersburg. IT Is even alleged
that he is prepared to veto the Olney-Monroe
Doctrine in order to save the Spanish monarchy
and 10 vndicate the divine right Of kings. THESE
are vagaries Of a winter silly season. The sta
tilitv Of the Spanish throne would he more seri-
ously impaired by the failure of the Madr1d
Government to suppress the rebellion IMAM ny
defeat in war with the United States Ameri-
can intervention might involve the loss OF Cuba.
hut il would enable Spain to surrender her last
stronghold in the New World without dynas-
tic revolution. European monarchy would sur
yive the liberation or conquest OF Cuba. Inere
would be a collapse of Spanish credit, but the
financial losses would not fall upon Germany.
but upon the rival nation which is waitins LOT d
war of revenge. The German Emperor would
not lose sleep if French investors were neaVly
hi, by a crash in Spanish securities.
Germany has an industry which has prof1ted
h the ruinous conditions Of Spanish rule IN
aha She is directly interested in the indefinite
,olonqation Of the civil war; which insures the
Astruct,on Of the sugar industry OF the island
'he Cuban question is essentially sugar ques-
ion so far as Germany is concerned rev
years ago nearly one-half of the imported sugar
suprly of the United States was drawn from the
Spanish West Indies. The operation OF the
plantations and mills has virtually been sus-
pended. and the vacuum has been filed mainly
from Germany So destructive has been the
competition of the bounty aided beet industries
Of the Continent that even the BRUSH west
Indian nlanters are struggling desperately to
keen their heads above water and crying out
10 the Imperial Government TO rescue them
They are released temporarily from cuban
rivalry. but they cannot conduct their industry
proftably under existing conditions Of European
competition. Germany. the largest producer
Of beet sugar, has nothing to fear from ISLANDS
which have been abandoned to their fate by
the mother country With Cuba remanded to
the old-tim conditions Of Spanish rule. and
overwhelmed with increased burdens Of taxa
tion. cane sugar will be displaced in the mar
kets Of the world. and the supremacy Of the
beet industry will be permanently established
Germany does not stand in dread OF any col
lapse in the market for Spanish securities. nor
Of any catastrophe for monarchy in Madrid. nor
81 any triumph of Socialism in the West Indies
Her interest in the Cuban question centres In
the extinction Of the cane industry
REPORTS OF INTERVENTION
What has caused more disturbance In official
circles Of Berlin than NJ. de Blowitz's disclos-
ure OF an international syndicate for the de-
fence Of Spain is the rumor OF pacific inter-
yent,on on the part of the United States at the
Instance OF the Madrid Government II Is
premature and unfounded: but 1t reveals a
method by which the island may be paciheo,
the honor Of Spain saved and American influence
exerted most beneficially. This is the WASH
ington report that Spain is anxious 10 secuIe
the good Offices Of the United states Ioveln-
ment in inducing the insurgents 10 Jay Wv u
their arms under guarantees of home rule ana
commercial union with the American marke,
This policy would enable Spain to retain hoIh-
nal control over the remnant or "nat -" a. o". y,
q Continental empire and at the same time 1t
would confer upon Cuba the full dement's OF
administrative autoa n7y AM commercial reel
procty with the United States. If the CUBAN
question could be temporarily adjusted in this
way. it would be as striking an illustration or
the efficacy of the Monroe Doctrine as ny
venezuela settlement has been NO nnan raaa
syndicate could offer any objection 10 uheoo
proposals for American mediation NOT even
NJ de Blowtz could discern any trace OF 80
calsm in them. 1t would be a pacinc pohcy
favorable alike to the interests Of Foreign creu
itors and patriotic Cubans: and the island would
again be enabled to enjoy the advantages - oa