The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-21
How Span
iards Feel
OVER SITUATION,
A Great Parsonage Discuss
es the Subject.

London, Oct. 21.-The Paris CORE
spondent of the Times says: II had a
visit Thursday from great Spanish
parsonage, who seems to have been
commanded to ascertain the trend of
public opinion on the negotiations He
appeared much depressed. He has
found great and general sympathy with
Spain, but has been unable to discover
any possibility of obtaining moral sup
port against the American delegates,
who are infiexible in their demands,
and with much politeness of form have
hitherto categorically refused to make
the slightest concession on any of the
instructions received by them, never
having asked their government for the
slightest notifications.
Il have already explained the mode
of negotiation. Memoirs are handed in
which are translated and replied to in
the same fashion. The Spaniards from
time to time endeavor to enter into
conversation and turn discussion
into a verbal exchange of views in or
der to obtain some deviation from the
infiexfble lines marked out by the Am
erican government for it's representa-
tives.
Senior Abarzuza, who is a master of
the English language, is the Spanish
commissioner who makes the attempts
to lead to a conversation, and as he is
described as very prepossessing and
eloquent he always makes a profound
impression. The Americans, however
listen attentively. but rigidly maintain
the procedure of written replies.
1.-THE intended sitting of yesterday
could not be held because the Span
iards. in view of the written replies
made them. renowned their attempt at
conversation and asked 43 hours grace
to consult their government and pre-
pare written rejoinder. The friend
who called told me he had found his
countrymen much discouraged, being
convinced that the United States are
bent on rigorous exercise of the
rights of the victory. I have heard YOU
say, he remarked, that Prince Bis
marck once said to you When you
have your knee on the throat of a
vanquished nation, you can take from
II all YOU like: but YOU must always
beware of abusing your victory and ex-
aggerating your conquests. Otherwise
you load yourself for many generations
with crushing burden, which ends by
having the most misehievous results
for the victor-almost more than for
the vanquished,"
MY caller remarked: 1.-THE Americans
are not adopting this wise and humane
view; they seem bent on pushing the
results Of the war to their extreme con-
sequences. They refuse to entertain
any concession on financial question,
and while declining to undertake SOW
ereignty in Cuba, they maintain that
the Cuban debt is a Spanish debt and
that Spain abused her sovereignty by
saddling the island with the interest of
debt by which she alone profited.
"Vainly have we urged that they
themselves accepted financial obliga-
tions toward England after the war Of
independence, that they accepted the
burdens of taxes after the conquest;
that there is no more general law than
the law of the obligations of a country
changing with its rulers, and that it
would be an arbitrary course and a
vexatious precedent to throw the Gu
ban debt on us. All is useless. and
they stand peremptorily to their de-
mands.
what our delegates should say to
them if they persist as it is to be
feared they will, is this: We are in
your hands. You are the victors. We
for once committed the folly OF going
to war with you because you left us
no time to avoid it, because you treat
ed us in such way that even at the
risk of suicide, we were bound to
plunge into war, though the result Of
it was evident to us. But we will not
commit the fresh folly of recommenc-
ing war in any form. We are, there
fore. at your mercy. We shall sub
nit to your dictates and shall leave the
world to judge Of those dictates; but
no human force will compel US 20 sub
scribe to them, and we shall not sub
scribe
This is what our delegates ought to
saw on this Cuban question. AS for the
other points, they win wait to hear
what thew are