The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-01
ROTHSCHILDS
Want to Pick Up a Few More
Cuban Bonds,
Hence the Nation is Held Back
From Its just Vengeance.

Chicago, March 1.-The Tribune prints
the following from its staff correspond
ent at Washington:
Whatever may come of the Maine in
cident. it is now generally believed that
Cubas $ Independence IS assured Act
ual war would of course mean indie
pendence almost at once, but the be
lief is that even if war IS aVerted
Spain's actual hold on the island Will be
terminated before many months have
passed.
There is a strange story to this effect
floating about the clOakrOOms OF the
senate, where it is asserted positively
that certain great financial interests
always able to secure advance infOrma-
tiOn of value-have become convinced
that the island will soon be free. There
are even rumOrs that certain senators
have been informed of the fact, and
have been urged to delay action for
purely speculative reasons. 1t is said
that the BelmOnts, representing the
ROthchiIds interests, have gradually
disposed of their large holdings OF Span
ish bonds, having unlOaded them quiet
ly but persistently during the period
when talk of autonomy led unth1nking
politicians to believe that the revolution
would fall of it's own weight under the
pressure of public opinion ThereupOn,
so the history goes, the Belmont inter
ests quietly gathered in all the Cuban
bonds Obtainable. which are still at
merely nominal figures.
The Tribune correspondent has the
authority of a well known senator for
the statement that the ROthschilds now
own so large a line of the insurgent Sc
cuTitieS that they would profit by i'm
mediate independence. The same auth
OTity says that the BelmOnts, repre-
Sentng the ROthSchlIdS, have sent men
to Washington for the express purpose
of delaying action until they could pick
up q few more millions of these rebel
bonds. Other financial interests have
taken the cue, until within the last few
weeks Cuban bonds. which formerly
We're looked on as wildcats" have be
come subjects of inquiry. Some fnan-
ciaI interests in Europe holding Span
ish bonds are willing now to invest in
Cuban securities at a low price, believ-
ing that their appreciation will more
than make UP for the loss on the Span
ish paper There is even talk of a pool
among certain speculative senators to
get hold of these Cuban bonds, delay
action until the syndicate is safely
loaded up. and then turn the senate
loose" Back of all this vague talk is
the evident conviction that Cuba's in
dependence is now assured, and that
the Maine catastrophe, if it does not
provoke war, VIII surely induce the
president to act in a way to drive the
Spaniards from the island.
Albany. n. Y. March 1.-The activity
at the Watervliet arsenal and gun
foundry continues today. Since the
Maine disaster there has been a hush
of anxious suspense about the place.
learned at the gun factory today that u
mortars have been boxed and ready for
shipment as soon as cars arrive to con-
vey them to their destination, Sandy
Hook. Twenty machinists whose names
appear on the eligible civil service list
were notified Saturday by the secretary
of the local civil service board to report
al the gunShOp ready to go to work 1t
is the intention of the authorities to nut
the men at work on parts of rifles
winch are IN talr way to completion.
The master mechanic, Alfred Chris
UanSen, an expert on the building of
rifles of large calibre and who has sun
erintended the manufacture of rifles at
the arsenel for the past eight years. will
leave tomorrow Ostensibly for Wash
ingtOn. at the orders of the war depart
ment but in reality for the forts and
coast defenseS where the guns which
have been sent from the WaterVIiet ar
senaI are located. He viii make a
thorough examination of the condition
OF the huge pieces of ordnance.
London. March 1.-The London News
commenting editorially upon the rela-
tions between the United States and
Spain, this morning says Spain can ex-
pect no support, moral or otherwise
from England against the United
States. She has ruined Cuba. as she
has ruined or lost every colony by the
grossest corruption, cruelty and NAL
administration and she must be left tc
settIe the account for it with those
whom 1t may concern, without any aid
or sympathy on our part
The Standard, in an editorial on the
same general topic, highly praises
President McKinley'S statesmanIfke
moderation and recognizes that it would
be only human nature that proof of the
Maine having been blown up from
the outside should engender a DANGER.
Gus war feeling in America
Sir Edward James Reed, the eminent
naval expert, writes to the Times thi:
morning expressing the opinion tha-
the Maine could be rehoated for a tith,
of her cost.
Cincinnati, March, 1.-The ENQUIRE
publishes the following from its CORES
pondent at Key West:
have just received from Havana val
uaole information as to the Maine dis
aster In advices from there I am in
formed that the last examination d
the wreck made by divers on Thursda-
revealed the fact that the forward par
~ the Names port armor belt was bro