New-York tribune., 1898-11-30
SpiIN'S SURRENDER.

Snoin saws she yields TO stress OF circum-
STANCES She has exhausted her military
power and the resources of diplomacy lhere-
forc ..to avoid bloodshed and from considera-
lions of humanity and patriotism, she VIII
submit TO the conditions Of the conqueror' now
over hard they may be. With the exception OF
the last hypothetical clause the statement Is
quite true, and easily explicable. The intliha-
ticn that The terms exacted by this conn'r!
are hard or harsh Is not true. as We nave III
ready shown. neither comparatively nor posi-
lively The terms are vastly more Phleh' ~
Spain than those usuay-indeed, we might say
jnvarlably-exacted by other ronquern9 no
tlons. and they are actually kind in that they
save Spain from incalculable future troupie.
The bloodshed Spain wishes TO avoid ana 'he
considerations of humanity ana pa'r'o'isn'
which constrain her are, Of course. purely SUD
iectvc and personal to herself. She wishes 10
avoid a worse disaster than any that has YET
befallan her. and in that she is entirely truth
full and judcious.
II Is well to bear clearly in mind. however
that the stress of circumstances to when Sp'ln
Yields real as IL Is. is altogether or her OWN
making We need not. to Justify that charge'
60 back to her ancient tyranmes, 10 her iols
misgovernment of her colonies. 10 her perSIs-
tent refusal to join the liberal march OF Eu-
ropean nations. We need not go as 'ar oacA'
even. as the outbreak Of the last CUBAN War.
Within the last twelve months she has brought
this woe upon herself AS late as the pegih-
ming of the present year she might nave saNeu
herself these losses and kept her nag n!lns
in the Greater Antilles. An honest granting
of genuine autonomy to Cuba and frank ap-
nool IN this country for moral assistance III
effecting the reforms would have been sufl-
cicnt And seeing that this country was so
closely concerned in Cuban AFFAIRS. ana 'hat IL
had for many years protected Spain in her pos
session of Cuba against the hostile approaches
of other Powers. such an appeal might nave
heen made without the slightest deroga'lon OF
Snanjsh honor We may come TO later date
than that. If Spain had listened to the coun-
sells of some Of her own best sons. such as
Admiral Ceryera; If she had not perversely
blinded herself 10 the meaning OF condltlohS
nj the outbreak Of the wer and of the nrst op-
erations in the war: or even II, after the de-
struction Of her navy and the defeat ana capt
ure Of her army. she had promptly sought an
bonorohle peace. she might have saved 20 her
seIf much which she has now irretrievably lost.
She brought these hardships upon herself by
ber own persistence in hopeless struggle ana
hv her vain imaginings that some European
Power or Powers would intervene in her be-
half. Her dreams Of repeating the victories
Of the old conQuistadores and OF rahying Eu-
rome 10 her aid made for her fools paradise
The awakening has now come. and 1t no DOUBT
is hard TO her But II Is her own dreams that
have made il So The American PRESIDENT
might with absolute truthfulness adopt the
words of Rchelicu and. to Spain's complaint
that he is cruel reply: Il am not am just
There is nothing harder than justice TO the
unjust. And that is why Spain finds her sur
render calling and deems our conditions nara.