The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-08-29
A RUPTURE IS PREDICTED
Friction Between Insurgents and
Americans.
SPANISH POINT OF VIEW
Large interests In Cuba Which La Lucia
Says Spain Must Protect.
The World for the
Americans.

Havana Aug. 2s.-La Correspondent
ella has the following to say on the al
legged friction between III insurgents
and Americans:
News received from different sources
indicate hat these differences exist
and will inevitably terminate In rup-
ture. For instance, the Spanish off,
GERS who recently arrived from Man
zanillo assert that the rebels and
Americans there fire at each other
daily. SPANS hatred toward her COM
mon enemies was for a long time Of
equal grade. Ths different methods,
however. employed by the Americans
has naturally had the result of max
ing SPANS hostility less toward them
than toward the Cuban rebels. The
Americans ought. indeed. to be
ashamed Of their allies. for they came
10 Cuba ostensibly TO aid the oppressed
and to seCure them Justice
La Lucha. discussing the duty ~ the
Madrid government, stated it, view IN
this wise: SPANS sovereignty has
not been represented in Cuba by her
land and sea forces only. 1t has been
represented also by other factors and
interests. which are really the ones
from which she has derived her
strength and 10 which her attention
has been primarily due. The first obli-
CATION resting pm her in treating for
peace Is to protect the great wealth Of
those Spaniards and pro-Spanish ma
i've in Cuba who have been the real
element Of resistance against every
thing contrary TO the integrity of
spanish territory.
The honor of the army must. Of
course. be saved, but there are also
the concerns OF these, now representing
at least 80 per rent Of Cuba's wealth,
who. through all the changing events,
have continued loyal to Spain and still
continue loyal. SPANS government
must bear In mind that none Of the
Spanish colonies have had a Spanish
population as large as Cuba's nor so
many natives who have been faithful
to Spain. In the Spanish colonies Of
former ~days-those that are now re-
publics and that were necessarily
abandoned BY her because OF the ef-
tects Of the foreigner on the peninsula
there was nothing Spanish, either in
number or wealth. to compare with
what is Spanish in numbers and
wealth in Cuba to-day. Therefore, ii
follows that the government in feeling
about for a solution OF the present
problem ought 10 try to abide by Il
course that would save, as far as pos
sible, the great interests created in
Cuba by the Spanish family"
lei Dlaro de la Marina, reproducing
the editorial in HI impartial OF Madrid.
entitled, The World for the Ameri-
cans" which that paper published
about the time war was declared. says:
The Monroe doctrine has been i'm
mensely extended among the AneTi-
cans and they have applied il TO both
the Americas. They felt strong
enough, perhaps, 10 change themselves
from gold miners into conquerors. 1t
is 50 handsome for these barbarians Of
civilization TO cry out. The world for
the Americans To-day 1t is against
Spain that they apply the principle.
Tomorrow il sill be another European
nation. Their will always he a chance
10 test their pretentions. The Ameri-
Fan invasion. so terrifying and as
founding. can only be checked by Fu-
ropean patriotism. But. alas his pa
trIotism Is coming to an end, FOR il has
seen Spain unjustly trampled down in
the name Of humanity"
La Union Constitutional. bitterly
protesting against reports that peace
Is to be concluded only after great ter
ritorial sacrifices by Spain. says: In
the battlefield or I'm the lesson Of a
peace treaty. in war and in peace alike,
let NJ always be the same-genuine
~SpaniardS. II. Tor the interest OF u
race ana for rights sake, 1t becomes
necessary, let us sacrifice everything
to defend SPANS honor until the last
Spaniard has given his life at the foot
of the flag that wave over FL MORO.
Thus we shall show that we are willing
to do our duty. Thus shall We render a
great service 10 Europe. II the old
world Is to be made subordinate 10 the
new; n the citizens Of the new world
are 10 impose their ambitions upon the
convenience Of the civilized nations Of
the old. and If the old world has for
gotten It's most important interests, and
Spain Is TO be abandoned in this titanic
STRUGGLED this is to be our state. then
let the period close in a happy day on
which Spain shall lend her services 10
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