The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-04-17
SPAIN NJ EXHAUSTED
BUT 200 RESPONSES TO HER OALJ
FOR 6,OO0 VOLUNTEERS.

Appeal and boast Prove UseIc-si the People
Are Tired OF the Hopeless struErle-Uemon-
STRANGE from Conservatives ana Warning
from Republica Financial acheming.
HAVANA, via Key West, April 18.-The last
news from Madrid In that the efforts made by
the Spanish Government, in agreement with
private companies, to recruit volunteers for tho
war In Cuba, have failed completely. An APP
peal was made to the country TO send 5000 vol
untecrs to reinforce the Spanish army in Cuba,
and only 200 were enlisted.
Some Republican newspapers in Madrid say
that this failure is due to the reports Of great
suffering among tho Spanish soldiers in Cuba,
tho lack OF food, and the slownesso Of payment of
the troops. The Conservatives in Spain, as well
as In Cuba, say that the failure is entirely tho
work Of the Republicans and Liberals, who at
the beginning Of the winter made n sensational
press campaign against the dishonest military
administration In Cuba. Selor Romero Roblcdo,
tho Incorporating Conservative who has been
repeatedly Minister of the Colonies and OF tho
Interior in Senior Canovas's former Cabinets,
says:
1.-THE Spaniards ought to learn from this that
In such serious questions as those Of the war In
Cuba, in which national interests are involved.
they must sacrifice their political passions to
the veal Of the country. To attack the Gov
eminent now in the affairs of Cuba is to attack
Spain. To speak about dishonesty in our army
there. and to depict the Spanish soldier as u VIC
tim of the greed OF the Captain-General and his
officers, is to help the insurgents. We see now
to what an abyss such propaganda lead. The
heroic Spaniards, the heirs Of Pelnyo, arc deaf
to the appeals of tho Spanish cause. believing
that under the pretoxt OF defending their coun-
try a trap Is prepared for them In Cuba, whore
they will be treated as white slaves"
The Republican leader, Francisco Pi y Mar
gall, in a letter to u friend in Havana says:
THE failure Of recruiting volunteers for Cuba
proves that the nation Is tired Of that bloody
war in which Spain is achieving her ruin and
eminent thought that tho calling OF more re-
serves, now that the deadly rainy season Is so
near on the island, would meet with the opposi-
ton OF the independent press and of liberal pub
lie opinion. The recruiting Of the volunteers was
the crooked, way taken by the Government, to
answered.: no more blood, No more victims "
After the present loan the Government in
debts in Cuba. 1t is said that the bonds OF 1886
and OF 1890, together with. the last issue Of tho
funded in one single debt. for which a new is.
sue of bonds will be made embodying all the So
c~urities of the previous loans. The scheme APP
pears to meet with opposition, especially among
directors Of the Banco Hispano Colonial, who
say that any change in tho existing conditions
made it will be the largest bond issue made by
any European colony in America, amounting to
1t Is expected here that, to-day being Good
Friday, the Queen Regent will sign a decree
pardoning u few prisoners in Cuba. -,
Some thirty more Cuban prisoners are to sail
in one of the next Spanish steamers to Chafari-
mas, Ceuta, and Fernando Pc,
sons In the house OF detention for women Of i'll
rcpute In Havana. arc suffering the worst treat,
ment, One Of them is an old woman Of q good
cannot move from a chair.