The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-22
DUPUY DE LONE.
Letter of Peculiar Significance at
This Time.

Washington, May 21.-The reply OF
/ Depuy de Lone. the Spanish minister
20 the offer made by Secretary Olney
OF mediation, made on behalf of this
! government. contains the following
! language, indicative of the attitude OF
the last administration:
The government Of his majesty ap-
preciates to IT'S full value the nozzle
| frankness with which that of the
+ United States has informed it of the
very definite opinion it has formed in
regard to the legal impossibility OF
! granting recognition of belligerency to
I their Cuban insurgents.
! Indeed, those who are now fighting
in Cupa against the integrity of the
/ Spanish fatherland possess no qualifi-
/ cations emitting them to the respect or
even to the consideration of other
/ countries; they do not. as your excel
lency expresses it, possess any civil
government, organized with a known
seat, and administration of defined ter
ritory, 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 am nciS replying, with great
legal acumen. that it Is impossible for
the Cuban insurgents to perform the
(, functions of d regular government
within its own frontiers and much less
/
legations that are incumbent on all the
members of the family of nations
Moreover, the systematic campaign Of
destruction against all the industries of
the island, and the means by which
they are worked, would. of itself, 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 spon-
taneous offer on the part of the govern
ment Of the United States, but sees no
advantage in regard TO the Cuban
question, its wish being that the law
full sovereignty of Spain be maintained
and even strengthened through the
submission of the rebels. which as
your eXcellency states in your note, is
of paramount necessity to the Spanish
government for the maintenance of its
honor
While expressing the high gratifica-
ton with which his nlajesty's govern
ment took note of the emphatic state
ments which your eXcellency was
pleased to make III your note of The
18th of April. with regard TO the sover-
eighty OF Spain, and the determination
OF the United States not to do any
thing derogat3ry to it, and acknowledge
ing with pleasure all the weight they
carry, the Duke of Tetuan 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 unnecessary, as your excel
Leroy remarks, and in view of so
friendly an attitude, TO discuss the by
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
opinion that your excellency was pleas
of the island in the event which cannot
and shall not be, of the insurrection IN
its triumph.
There can be no greater accuracy
of judgment than that displayed by
your excellency, and as you say with
great reason such termination of the
conflict would be looked upon with the
most serious misgivings, even by the
most enthusiastic advocate of popular
because. as remarked by
your excelleney, With the heterogeneous
combination 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 civilizat ton, would T
supervene.
The Spanish government is aware
of The fact that far from having jus /
tice done on both sides. there are many /
persons obviously deceived by incessant ]
SANDERS, who honestly believe that a :
ierocious despotism prevails in our An
tiles instead OF one of the most liberal
political systems in the world being en-
ioyed there now as well as before the
outbreak of the sinsurreclion.
THE government Of his majesty and
he people of Spain wish and even long
or speedy pacification in Cuba. They +
Ire ready to exert their best efforts and
IL the same time to adopt such reforms
Is may be useful or necessary and