The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-03
SENTIMENT IN SPAIN.
1t Is Opposed tn yankee" Interior
ence in Cuban Affairs.

lit Is Opposed to ssYankee- Interfer-
ence in Cuban Affairs.
ST. LOUIS, March 2.--The Globe-Demo-
Gratis Madrid correspondent says: While it
is Indignantly denied here that there has
been any movement on the part Of this gov
eminent with view to obtaining the ex-
tension of the time limit which President
Mckinley was alleged to have given to the
Sagasta Cabinet for the termination of
Spanish military operations in Cuba and
which would expire to-day the dispatches
from America published here this after
noon, insisting that Spain has humbled her.
self so far as to petition the United States
government to abstain from interference in
Cuba for two months longer, are driving
the people here almost wild with anger.
Naturally, the story has served to render
The denunciations of everything American
more violent than ever before, and every
body is asking how much longer Sagasta is
going to permit the Kingdom nation to be
insulted by the Yankees" The idea that
the American people should believe for one
moment that the Spanish people would
tamely submit to President McKinley's
naming date by which the suppression Of
the instruction in the Antilles must be
completed touches national pride to the
very quick, and is spurned with derisiOn,
since any acceptance of such a message
from President Mckinley would have been
equivalent to an admission that the United
States had Il right to interfere in Cuba,
and as for the notion of Spain in the posi-
ton of "a suppliant at Washington entreat-
ing for little more time. it is declared here
to be a piece of downright American in
sanity.
Spaniards are more determined than ever
not to tolerate any oAmaPican interference
in Cuba, and they see in the American war
preparations not so much an outcome of
the Maine disaster as am intention to inter
fere in Cuba in such a manner as 10 force
on war with Spain. OF course, the minis
terial newspapers try to put the best face
torial comments speak of the friendly rela-
lions between the two countries and insist
that they have never been more cordial, the
news columns of the very same sheets
record all the preparations which the gov
ernment here is making with view TO war
with the great American Republic. Almost
everything offensive to Spain ana calcu-
lated to infame Spanish passion that is
published in the American papers is being
repeated here, not merely Dy the opposition
papers, but even by the semi-otf1cial organs
of the war element of the Cabinet, while
the Carlist newspapers are loudly demand
ing how much more indgnity the present
dynasty will permit America to place upon,
Spain before resenting it with war.
The only thing that saves SaSaSta from
being subjected at once TO military pro-
nunciamento or to a popular revolution is
the belief that he is in some manner en-
gagged in trucking the Americans, being
famed as the greatest political trlckster IN
Europe No one attaches any credence to
his words in which respect he differs from
his great adversary, the late senior Cano-
vas, and his only redeeming point is ms de-
votion to the Queen Regent and to the little
King, to safeguard whose interest is ms
nrincipaI consideration and for the sake of
whom he would sacrifice not only MS lie,
but even his country.