Birmingham state herald., 1897-05-22

 Spain relating to Secretary Olney's of fer of mediati ton on the Cuban question is gradually coming to light MT. Olney's letter was made public during Senator Foraker's recent speech with a brief ex- tract from the Spanish minister's reply. Today the full reply of Minister Dupuy de Lome became available. It is as follows:
 Legation of Spain in Washington,
 June 1, 1896 "To MT. Secretary:
 "As I had the honor to inform your excellency some time ago I lost no time in communicating to the minister of state of his majesty, the king Of Spain, the note that your eXcellency was pleased to address to me under date of the 4th Of April last, in regard to the events that are taking place in the island of Cuba.
 Tn his answer, dated May 9 last the duke of Tetuan tells me that ths import ance of the communication, here referred to, has led the government of his ma jesty to examine it with the greatest care and to postpone answer for such time as his own views on the complicated Cuban situation should be officially made.
 The minister of state adds that the liberal purposes of Spain towards the AJ by the august lips of his majesty in the speech from the throne. The previous voluntary decisions of the government Of Spain in the matter may serve, as they are now serving as the basis of reply to your excellency's note. The govern ment of his majesty appreciates to its full value the noble frankness with which that of the United States has informed itself of the very difficult opinion 1t had formed in regard to the legal possibility of granting the recognition of belliger- ency to the Cuban insurgents.
 Indeed those who now dre fighting In Cuba against the integrity of the Span ish fatherland possess no qualifications emitting them to the respect or even to the consideration of the other countries. They do not, as your excellency expresses it, expose any civil government estao- lished or organized with known seat or defined territory and they have not succeeded in permanently occupying any town much less any city large or small. Your excellency declares In the. note, to which I am replying, with great legal acumen and spontaneously that 1t IS lm- possible for the Cuban insurgents to per form the functions of a regular govern Inent within its own interior and much less to exercise the rights and fulfill the obligations that are incumbent on all the mem bers of the family of nations. More over their systematic campaign Of de-
 
 island and the means by which they are worked would, of itself, be sufficient to keep them without the pale of unlVer- sally recognized rules of international law.
 !, "Jis maiesty's government has read with no less qualification the explicit and spontaneous declarations to the effect that the government of the United States seeks no advantage in connection with the Cuban question, its only wish pelng that the lawful sovereignty or Spaln pc maintained and even strengthened through the submission of the rebels. Much as your excellency states in your note is of paramount necessity to the Spanish government for the maintenance of it's integrity and its honor
 "'While expressing high gratltude WlRh: his majesty's government took note or -annhatic statements which your excel lency was pleased to make in your noIe of the 4th of April with regurd to the soV- ereignty of Spain and the determlnatloh of the United States not to do anytning derogatory to 1t and acknowledglng with nIeas,1re all the weight they carry, the Dulxe of Tetuan says that nothing else was to be expected of the lofty sense or right cherished by the government of the United States
 ipt Is unnecessary, as your excellency remarks, and in view of so correct ana so friendly an attitude, to discuss the n.y. poihhesis of intervention, as it would be utterly inconsistent with the above views.
 saThe government of his majesty, the king of Spain, fully concurs in the opln- ion that your excellency was pleased to express in regard TO the future or the IS, blnd in the event, which cannot and snail not be. of the insurrections triumph.
 s'There can be no greater accuracy or i,1dgment than that displayed by your excellency when, as you said wlth great reason. such termination of the con xrrith htn serious misgivings by the enthusiastic advocates of popular government, De cause. as remarked by your excellency. with the heretogenous combination Of races tha. exist there, the disappearance of Spain would be the disappearance of the only bond of union wnich can Keep them in balance and an unavoida ble struggle amorg the men Of different color, contrary 10 the spirit of Christian civilization, woulC supervene.
 ''The accuracy of your excellency's statemencs is all the more striking. as, owing to the condition of population in the island, no part of the natives can be conceded superiority over the others, if the assistance of ahe Spaniards from Europe is not taken into account.
 "The island of Cuba has been exclusive 1v Spanish since iss discovery; the great normal development of it's resources, whatever it's value, whatever 1t repre- sents i'm the community of mankind, 1t owes In its entirety to the mother coun- try, and even at this day among the various groups of people that inhabit it, whatever may be the standpoint from which the question is examined by the natives of the peninsula, these are abso- lutely necessary for the peace and ad- vancement of the island. All these fully ard clearly demonstrate that 1t is not possible to think that the island can be berisfted except through the agsncy of Spain, acting upon her own impulse, as she has long been doing. by the principles of liberty and justice. The Spanish gov ernmenIt s as a ma.ter of fact, far from having justice done it on all sides on these points. There are many persons obviously deceived by incessant islanders, who honestly believe that a ferocious des- potism prevails in our Antilles instead of one of the most liberal political systems in the world being enjoyed there now, as well as before the outbreak of the in- surrection.
 "or,s need only run over the laws gov ernjng the Antilles, laws which ought to be sufficiently krown In c'he United States at t;alis day, to perceive how absolutely eroundless such impressions are.
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