The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-04-26
SPAIN TO THE POWERS.
Reviews the situation, Asserting That
Right IL ON Her side.


Right IL ON Her side.
London. April 2s.-The Times this
morning publishes SPANS memorandum
To the powers. dated April is. and signed
by Senior Gullon. the Spanish minister of
foreign affairs. The memorandum be-
gins by recording the moral and ma
terial aid the Cuban rebels have re-
ceived from the United States" in fill
clustering expeditions and the operations
OF the junta. II mentions SPANS re-
peated and persistent denials to the al
legations Of cruelty towards the Gu
bans, and avs great stress upon Presi-
dent Cleveland's dispatch of Dec. IL,
1896. To the effect that peace would be
possible IL Spain gave a sufficient au-
tonomy to Cuba. The memorandum
contends that in the face Of the new
liberal constitution granted Cuba. which
has already borne fruit" IL Is difficult
to understand why President Mckinley.
I'm his message OF Dec. 16. 1897. and
General Woodford. in the note of Dec.
Is. 1897. should still ioubi Spain's 10y
atty.
The document then speaks at some
length of the Maine accident and as
serts that the Americans. under he
pretext of the extra-territoriality of the
vessel. never allowed spanish authori-
ties to visit the wreck for Of
investigation: and IL most solemnly as
serts the absolute innocence Of SPANS
officials and of SPANS subjects gen.
orally.
TIL fairness and loyalty OF Spain are
then shown by "A reference to the eqult-
able treatment which American fill
busters. more especially those of the
Competitor. ave received at the hands
of Spain: and. in order to show more
fully how pacific n correct has been
the attitude of the Spanish government.
the memorandum enumerates the four
clauses of the Spanish proposals. These
are:
Tristan offer to submit all ques-
lions arising from the Maine affair to
arbitration.
Second-An order to Governor Blanco
to retire into the western provinces and
apply 5000. 900 pesetas for the relief of
the agricultural population. with an
acceptance by the Spanish government
of relief for Cuban sufferers by the
United States. provided such relief were
SEN I'm merchant vessels.
Third-The cooperation of the Cuban
parliament i'm formulating the extent of
the powers to be reserved for the CEN
trail government.
Fourth-In view of the Cuban p%arlia-
ment not meeting before May 4. the
proclamation OF AN immediate armis-
tice.
The memorandum proceeds TO de-
/ clare t1dt the lnlttu SldltS mas HbN
accepted these far-reaching concessions,
and that the good offices of the pope
have been equally unaviling. 1t as
serts that the Maine accident was used
by political parties In America as q
means of hurting most gratuitous and
intolerable calumnies at the Spanish
government. and yet" the document
says. mr.. Olney. in an official note
dated April |. 1896. To the Spanish min
lister i'm Washington. himself expressed
very serious apprehensions lest the only
existing bow of union In Cuba should
disappear i'm the event of Spain with
drawing from hat island. Mr.. Olney
as the memorandum argues, feared al
that time that "A war of races would
ensue. all the more sanguinary In pro-
portion to the experience and discipline
acquired during the insurrection. and
that two republics would at once be
formed. one white and the other black
the upshot being that one of the tive
would swallow the other.
The grave view thus taken by Mr.
Olney of the future of Cuba, freed from
SPANS rule. is then enlarged upon
and inevitable racial wars are fore
Swallowed. which are certain to wreck
the existence OF Cuba as a state should
Spain be deprived of sovereignty over
the island. Thus. being convinced, a:
Spain is, that right and equality are or
her side. she will not and cannot sur
render her sovereignty in Cuba.