The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-03-27
A WAR IS INEVITABLE
Such Is the Opinion Of the Crisis
in England.
READY TO FACE THE RISKS
Spain May Have to Have the Lesson
Numerically Hammered Into Her.
The Preservation OF Peace De-
pends Upon Spain's Temper.
Copyright 1895 by Associated Press.

! Copyright 1895 by Associated Press.
London. March 2s.-Although public
opinion on this side of the Atlantic. as In
America. has already discounted the find
ings of the United States court of in
quiry into the loss of the Maine. and ac-
tual confirmation was expected. the YER
dict only served to whet peoples aope-
tites. II has in no way aIIeviated the sus-
pense or the anxiety in regard to the i'm
mediate effect produced by the report nor
the eagerness To know the position which
President Mckinley and his cabinet pro-
pose to take upon this difficult and deli
cate situation. So intense is the interest
In the latest turn of the Kaleidoscope
that IL has immeasurably Increased the
nervous tension which has been agftating
Europe for the last three months. There
Is little hope that hostitlties can be avert
ed and 1t is believed the revelation now
officially made will so combine the other
factors of the situation as to make war
inevitable. though IL Is still regarded as
possible that Spain at the last moment
Will see the hopelessness of maintaining
her position and yield to the inevita Bile
without. as a British admiralty ofYicial
said. having the lesson numerically
hammered into her. although the ham,
mering may possibly not be accomplished
until after her spirits have been raised by
temporary success"
IL is at last realized here that the move
ments to end the Cuban scandal are no
longer in the hands of the jingoes. but
that the solid sentiment of the United
States bids the executive act when the
proper moment arises; that the risks
have been estimated and that the great
body of Americans are ready to face
them.
So far as II Is possible to ascertain the
diplomatic opinion IL can be summed up
In the words of foreign officer who re-
marked: THE preservation of peace de-
pends upon the temper Spain displays
when the inevitable notification Is re-
ceived The president proposes to relieve
the suffering by distributing food
clothes and medicines from American
warships and transports. precisely as
Great Britain IL now unoficially and on
a smaller scale doing in Crete. and unless
Spain pockets her overweening conceit.
which has hitherto made the recognition
OF her failure impossible to her. a rup-
ture must come from that quarter and
Spain will put herself hopelessly In the
wrong. Spanish preparations for war and
her finance minister's assurance that she
has sufficient funds therefor are equally
untenable. unless the latter contemplates
the immediate suspension of specie pay
ments and the payment of the interest on
the debt I'm paper. The truth Is that Spain
is no more in a position to fight the Uni
ted States than was Greece TO fight Tur-
key. The one great hope of the European
chancellors is that the president will sue
coed in delaying the explosion until. under
the guise of autonomy. arrangements
may possibly be made to facilitate SPANS
giving up Cuba. IL must be remembered
that for two years. although Spain has at
times assumed vigorous attitude. she
has invariably failed to maintain II when
the crisis was reached. The suggestion OF
the continental press OF Intervention upon
the part of European powers is mischiev-
Gus and nothing is more certain to pro-
woke hostilties.'
Great interest is taken in the elections
tomorrow for the members of the Span
ish chamber of deputies. IL Is reported
that General weyler has telegraphed to
his friends In Cuba to withdraw their
candidatures for seats in the Cuban
chamber.