Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1898-08-16
This Is the View Taken That
Will he the Outcome Of the
Final Terms Of Peace.
NEWSPAPER COMMENT
ALMOST In ACCORD.
Nearly all Admit That Spain's Colo
NAL Possessions Are Gone and
the Country Reduced 10
Third Rate Power.

Madrid, Aug. 1.-The governors gen
eral Of Cuba and Porto RICO have ao-
knowledged the receipt of the news Of
the suspension of hostilities between the
United States and Spain and announced
the carrying out of the oriers
An order has been issued by the cap
tain general Of Madrid suspending the
publication Of the Republican newspa-
per f. Pals
The city is patrolsd by police, bat PEE
feet tranquility prevails.
The publication Of the protocol pro
duoed keen disappointment 30 far a. it
refers 20 the Philippines, where IL had
been hoped Spain would preserve her
sovereignty intact. Clause Of the pro-
tocol dispels this delusion.
Echoing public feeling the independ-
eni and opposing papers bitterly criticise
the clause as afording pretext for cur.
failing Spanish sovereignty IN an archi-
pclago where control or interference Of
a foreign power would make the natives
ungovernable.
A decree has been issued granting the
troops a three months furlough.
The minister Of war. General Coareo,
has issued a circular hxing rules for the
disbandment Of the forces returning
from the West Indies, who viii hand
over their arms and war stores on land.
ing a, the ports Of vegO. COrrunA aud
SantAnder.
The meeting Of Saturday Of the cAbi.
net council was devoted chiefly 10 the
consideration Of means for restoring
commercial, postal and telegraph com.
municAtion with the colonies
The comments Of the press are a VERT.
able funeral hymn on the destruction Of
the Spanish colonial empire. Some days
ago the desire for peace made the people
close their eyes 20 the price, but now
upon reading the protocol. they realize
that the cost is the loss Of that empirV
which Spain had conquered with -
much glory and that Spain now falls q
the second rank among nations. Tbs
public mind i stunned and there is gen
eral mourning.
III Pais prints the text of the protocol
signed hv the United States and Spaif
with mourning borders and said
"spain without colonies is reduced {,
the role Of third rate power"
III Imparcial says:
Peace viii not bring 20 spain ever
the rest she 80 much needs after thre
years and half OF war.
II Nationil saws bitterly:
III Spain had at least been vanquishe,
only after furious and heroic struggl
she could resign herself. Peace witt
the United States will only be mo
meniary respite from our misfortune" "
III Liberal says the article in the pro
tocol relating to the Philippines does No
not indicate that anything good 10
Spain VIII be fixed upon, and the que.
tion will not be settled favorably for hei
~ Globo tministerial) pines for peac
between Spain and the United State.
. and says the communications on easter
questions which Day and Cambon hav
signed begins the first chapter in a ne,
history of Europe.
III Tempo. (Consorvative) saws:
"Pcacc is am accomplished fact Til
bitterness OF iofcat does not prevent u
from seeing with satisfaction the end ,
the war
III Epoca says:
"rho peace Is 'ho addest impose
since tho treaty oi Utretcht, and q.
presses doubt ".f a government whic
has allowed itself to be dmggcd into
war wiz acquit itself well by ncgoita
ing peace.
4. Heraldo wants 90 know how Ame
icl proposes 20 make the Cuban an
Philippine insurgents submit to su
pension OF hostilities and keep them
lash until the evacuation Of the islam,