The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-04-09
WAR AND PEACE IN SAME BREATH
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vailing against America. so far not z
| single act of aSgressiveness has beer
reported against American private resi-
dents or the official representatives OF
the United States.
Nevertheless, the government and
the authorities are taking precautions
at Madrid and in the provinces lest
the violent articles of the republican
! independent press should fan the pop
ular excitement into flame.
TEMPER OF PEOPLE.
ITO understand the present temper
of the Spanish people it must be borne
IN mind that their press and govern
ment have encouraged them to believe
that their navy, with a little vigor in
preparation, could compete easily in
the first brush with the American navy.
Then, again, they had been led to sup
pose that their military organization
IN colonies like Cuba. Porto Rico and
the Philippines, could undertake to
punish severely any aggression on land
from the very small regular force and
poorly organized militia of America.
FANCIED SECURITY.
AT home they are persuaded that
their coasts and forts have nothing to
rear, as the reserves can be called out
and the coast guarded without diff
Guilty They put much confidence in
the idea of sending priVateers to raid
upon the American merchant and
coasting fleets. These optimistic views
are not shared in high political and
professional circles, where grave APP
prehension exists regarding trade and
communication with the colonies and
the dispatch of relief and provisions,
especially for the Spanish forces in
Cuba, that used to get most of their
h.
PRESS CENSORS.
1T is necessary TO call attention to
the conduct of the press censors of Ma
drid. Nobody can dispute their right
under the treaties to stop obnoxious
kilograms altogether in a moment of
scare. That scare, however, has now
reached such a pitch that even the
telephone lines to the Spanish prov
lnces are as vigorously watched and
checked as the kilograms. But the
press censors persist in ignoring the
fact that the international telegraph
treaties don't authorize delays of sew
erai hours in transmission, to suit their
convenience. and that of all the min
lsterial departments which require
translations of foreign press messag es.
Another abuse is the fact that
weeks and months elapse before money
disbursed for suppressed kilograms is
repaid
II y. m.-Senor GullOn. the foreign
minister has held several conferences
with the amass adors of the powers.
RumorS have been circulated that the
failure of the pope's efforts was owing
70 the attitude of the United States.
I he nunciature here has issued the fol-
lowing note:
The nunciature has today higher
hCpes than ever of the success. of papal
Intervention. 1t is not true that Presi-
dent Mckinley has rejected the pope's |
intervention in favor of peace Such |
would be the more i'm
poltlc, not only because it would dis |
play barbarous intolerance, but be- |
cause however much any person might |
De the pope's enemy. it would be i'm |
possible TO misinterpret the voice of the
venerable Old man who recommends |
he preservation of peace.
On the other hand, the Catholics of
North America would never pardon
such a disregard of the vicar general
If their church"
MAY BE HARMFUL.
The general tone of the evening pa
GERS is one of satisfaction at the inter
erence of the European powers. as
lhowing that the latter realize SPANS
determined attitude against further
to America. Some doubt is
however, as TO the result of
lest the European courts
epeat the Cretan performance. The
oncert has weakness for the stronger
Ice, and may expect concessions from