Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-06-18
OUR CUBAN POLICY.
Instructions 10 The New United Sales
Minister 10 Madrid.
SPAIN 10 BE BROUGHT TO TERMS.
tuba NUS be Given Her Free dom With
or Without Initrv. ntion by
Our Government.


Tinlet. Hersld from Washington say.:
Spain is to be brought to terms.
Gen. Stewart l.. Woodforu. the new
minister to Spain, after dining with
President MCKINLEY last night, spent
the evening at the White House. He
received instfuctions as to his work In
the Spanish capital, for which he will
start in week or two. Gen Wood
ford's task IL divided into three parts
His first mission will be to present a
demand Tor PREPARATION and Indemnity
for the death Of DR.. Ruiz.
His second task 10 to prepare the
Spanish governmentfor theline vitabie,
and the inevitable IL the loss Of CubH
as q colony.
The third phase Of bis work lie the
presentation OF q distinct proposal
from the United States as 10 the dtspc-
sition OF Cuba.
1t 10 az to the first and second chap.
tiers that General Woodford 10 now
conferring with the President. He
will receive full instructions as to the
third either before he snils or as be
snail have had opportunity to report
upon the state OF mind III which he
hnds the Spanish minjetrv and queen
regent. Pfesiuent Mckinley also
instructed General Wovuioru to I'M
press upon the public men at Madrid
these three Vital points;
Tho United Stftes Ia not aciuatsd
by any uniriendIy feeling toward
spain.
THE United States Toes not desire
to take advantage OF Bpain's troubles
with her colony to bring about the
annexation OF Cuba TO this country.
8-But unless Spain Will herself
make move toward meeting the In ..
evitable, toward giving Cuba freedom,
the United States viii be- compelled
to interfere, and in the case OF inter-
venti0n annexation might naturally
follow.
SPAIN WILL PAY, BUT NOT ON
COMpULsIoN.
New YORK, June IS.-A dispato b
to the Word from Maurlu sRye:
Premier Canovas Is willing to pay
the willow OF Dr.. Ruiz $4,000 il the
United States government Will not
press an official claim. The an.
nouDcemsnl OF this fact has aroused
vehement public opposition which the
Maorid prsss 10 IL flaming. The news
papers blame the government for al
lowing Dr.. Ru z to Le killed, but cen.
sure It most Tor acknowledging 1t.
They say Spain Is "unusr the iron
heels of the Yankees"
The Imperial utterly declares that
"neither Cuba nor a hundred islands
would be worth suoh humiliation
which Capovas's cabinet subjects US
10. Recog Of the claim puts
Spain as nation beneath the Moore,
becsuse tina DENTS; for whose death
such an enormous sum will have TO
paid was not killed In Spanish
pri on by uhdisciplined natives and
semtsavages, out by iunctienaries OF
her Catholic mhjesty's government"
A DEMAND FOR TRUTH.
The ,pretent Spanish demand for
truth about Cuba, already me, by a
fearless ststsment that the military
situation there 10 hopeless 10 ans wesed
now by the first defiDite admitaiSn OF
cruelty. The Spanish officer.' actions
are not 90 much deplored as their he.
log discovered, while II 10 their being
acknowledged that causes anguish.
Senior Silvels, the leader OF con.
siderable section Of the Spanish con-
Canovas, strongly indorses the war
policy in Cube, yet has just said: "If
II 10 true that the Cuban war 10 one OF
conquest In order TO subdue u people
united against Spain, 1t constitutes an
ine0Iuble problem and the island
should have been gwen up . year
ago."
Such statement would have caused
the speaker 10 lie publicly stoned IL
made on the streets lof Madrid, but IL
was received with prolonged amt
enthusiasiic cheers from nigh clAse
Buuiepce OF conservatives packing
tnester from pit TO 1901, was warmly
commeu ued by the liberal independent
press, and only psriuncloriiy criticised
~ the conservative organs.
The liberal paper Ell Globo, says:
Weyler already mas had seventeen out
OF the tweniy.four monthsin which he
promised 70 finish the war by the
severe measures he learned 10 use in
this ten years struggle.
Wsyler's MarieI trocha 10 called q
''horrible burial ditch Tor thousaL ds;"
lite military efficacy ia declared to be
tucb that 1t WAS TRANQUILITY crossed by
Macoo, who only mei mis- death by fall
Ing iuto Cifiludeas nands.
Weylel's endeavor TO surround
u mtG ia characterized as "a Jour
months flourish, during which the
Iebel cnieI never lett a small circle
near the Juear0 troohs," and the psci-
he'd Provinces are admitted to be 80
ouly In name.
GENERAL GCMEz PLANS AN AoGREs-
sivE MOVEMENT.
NEW YORK, June l8.-A dispatch
10 the Hernlu from Havana, says:
Geneial kGomtz contemplate u de-
cideoly aggressive movement, to begin
some time during next month. The
plans which he has been forming for
The last lew months are now matu.ed
and the Cubsns are looking for d bfg
movement very soon. General Gomez
Is keeping his forces In Havana
Province and will probably make a
demonstration near Havana. General
Qiintin BanderAs with 1000 Orisntelss
lr reported to arrived In Melina,
Havana province. 1t 10 known that
he left Trinidad and was march
Ing through Matanzas several
days ago. General Gomez has
called . council OF war WHOM
viii be held In day or 30, when he
VIII disclose his plane to mis- officers,
Gen. Weylsr intsnds to leave Havana
ivr HE country next week. Within