Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-12-18

Blowitz, the Paris correspondent of the
London Times. published in that paper
to-day. Senior Montero Rios is quoted
as saying:
I'VE have fulfilled here very pain-
full mission in which it is impossible
to dream of looking forward with any,
satisfaction, but that of doing our duty.
We depart without other consolation
than the exclamation: Tout est Perdu
Saul rHonneur. (All IS lost but
honor.
I'VE knew in advance that we should
have to deal with an implacable con-
queror who would in TO way concern
himself with any pre-existing interna-
tional law, but whose sole object was
to reap from victory the largest posi-
bic advantage. This conception of in
ternational law is absolutely new. It
is no longer a case OF might against
right, but of might without right. As
for us, we had only to protect ourselves
against the abasement which 1t was de-
sired to infict upon us and to prove.
in spite of our plumbers and mistakes,
that we had not compromised the prov
erbial loyalty to the castilian father
land.
Misfortune also has grandeur. Tho
Americans have acted as 'vainquers
parvenus' (upstart conquerors). They
do not yet know the misfortune of de-
feat. But there are things which the
most fortunate nations cannot escape
later on-when they too will have had
reverses-when they will have become
homogeneous and are no longer Obliged
TO satisfy the exigencies OF political
parties, they. too, Will form. like all
other nations with past, code OF
international rights and duties and DO
less rssfLassihle 8 teTrTe
WHO HAVE SUFFERED DEFEAT
They will better understand that a.
strict observance of conditions agreed
to, even in the thick of fight, is q
guarantee and protection for all con-
cerned, for the conqueror as well as the
vanquished.
1--WE signed on August IL a protocol
suspending hostilities. and 1t was on
the fourteenth that the American gen.
eral demand in the surrender OF Manila-
The archipelago had not been won ans
has not yet been conquered. The fate
of the Philippines remained undeter-
mined, and Spanish sovereignty was
still in force, since we were still wag-
ing war with considerable forces to
suppress the insurrection. But, after a
journey across a portion of the United
States, President Mckinley changed his
policy and decided upon claiming tho
Philippines by right OF conquest. Yet.
| repeat, the Philippines even now, are
still unconqueFed. The two chief
islands, the two richest--Mindanao and
Luzon-are not won. Mindanao ana
the island of the Great Lake contains a
population of half breeds, half Malay
and half Spanish, constituting a milf
tary oligarchy which rules the
rest Of the islands and occupies the
richest portion of the territory on tho
shores OF the lake. They are proud.
strong and war-like, and not only ara.
they unconquered, but their conquesk
will not be accomplished quickly. Yet
the United States claimed them, as well
as the other islands, as though their
conquest was complete.
"But what most pains me Is that in
this great whirlwind in which we have
lost all. lost our last armament, there
has been an attempt 10 S.prive us OK
our honor as wa On December /. I
proposed 10 the A~ericans to appoint
A TECHNICAL COMMITTEE
to examine the question OF the Maine.
We said America will appoint an Amer
lean, Englishman and Frenchnan and
we will appoint Spanlard, an English
man and a Frenchman, all specialists.
and that the commission or the two
governments. appoint a German. aud
that these seven men bring in verdict.
II they declare Spain innocent. the
President of the United States will adj
dress a message 10 the Senate deciar-
ing Spanish honor intact, and that
Spain was falsely accused OF having
betrayed the laws of hospitality by
blowing up a vessel at anchor in one
of her ports. II Spain ~ declared
guilty. a Spanish ship VIII 20 to
America. salute the United States flag.
and Spain will pay the costs.
This is the proposal we made ON
December l. On December 5, IA his
message to Congress. the President
made no allusion 10 our PROPOSAL. but
described the blowing up Of the Mains
az a suspicious event.
"On December 6. the American CON-
n1fssioners declared they refused to dis
cuss this question. This Is what espec-
tally irritates US. We have great de-
fects. Our hot temper and cruelties
even, but our national honor IL dear 10
us. Yet at THAI honor. the Americans
wishing to deal the rudest blow.
well. we are now going home 70
help Spain staunch the wound
I'VE have, happily, at our head wo-
man whose virtues. courage an fnfellI-
gence are ou- strength and hope. who
il beloved AMI esteemed by all parties.
who henceforth has the
HEART or A sPANTARD.
"The latest news from the frontier(
Is that all issp-etty quiet. There
moreover, really no Carlists
priests who recall the giooY
in our history. Lon CARD
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