The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-08-03
OUR DEMANDS.
Spain Must Give Up at Least Cuba
and Porto Rico.
MUST MAKE PEACE AT ONCE
If the Spaniards Desire to Save
any Colonial Possession. So
Thinks the Diplomats
of Europe,
OF Europe.

The Vienna. Austria. Neuc Freie
Prcsse says it learns on the authority
Of minister that the cession Of Cuba
and Porto Rico is the minimum de-
mand that will be made by President
Mckinley. If Spain desires to retain
the Philippines she must quickly sue
for peace. The longer she delays the
stronger will become the impcrialistic
policy of the United States
Senor Dupuy de Lone. formerly
Spanish minister to the United States.
now living in Madrid. says that over
lures for peace ought to have been made
after the glorious fight on July around
Santiago and after the destruction Of
Admiral CcrvcraS squadron. with a
view to obtaining better conditions than
could be secured later If the United
States refused to grant honorable con-
ditions then the war should be contin-
ued desperately. Senior de LONE added
that there was an excellent opportunity
for peace now when the Americans had
discovered how unworthy the CubanS
are.
The Madrid Impartial is of the opin-
ION that Spain and the United States
will arrange peace without the services
Of outsiders. 1t says that Spaniards
prefer the annexation Of Cuba by the
United States to having it Hadc inde
pendent. The press is preparing the
public for the loss Of Cuba and dcvel-
opments in Porto Rico and the Philip
pines. Prime Minister Sagasta is again
temporizing. The country is reduced
to hopeless, callous Indifference to the
fortunes Of war and takes no interest in
anything outside its own miseries.
Local Interest has lately been absorb
ed in the attempt Of the Spanish news
papers to force the government to excr-
else a less rigorous censorship by
threatening to suspend publication.
The movement is not general, and IS
therefore not likely TO succeed.
Ordinary railroad traffic has been Sus-
pended in southern Spain, the roads
being monopolized by trains carrying
soldiers, marines and war munitions.
The light artillery that was supplied by
France before the outbreak Of the war
and centralized at Madrid has now been
shifted to the northern Sierra, where a
Carlist rising is feared.
The fright caused by the reported 60
ing to Spain of Commodore Watsons 5
squadron continues in that country
There has been a rush from the seaside
hotels. everybody fleeing to the inte-
rior. The fire brigades at the seaside
resorts. whose season has been COM
pletely spoiled, are constantly drilling
in the use Of hydrants and apparatus,
so as to be ready to extinguish the fires
that are expected to occur from bonn
bardment by the Americans.
The Spaniards who draw their in
comes from Cuba are urging the GOV
ernment to ask the United States to
take the island under its government,
thinking that their property would thus
be saved to them AS a matter Of fact.
majority are tending to the view that
all interests would be better conserved
with Cuba belonging to the United
States.
The Madrid correspondent of the
London Times says that peace prospects
have greatly improved during the past
IS hours. The preliminary exploration
of the minister of foreign affairs was
more practical than was supposed. The
same dispatch says the pushing on Of
the Porto Rico expedition by the Ame-
ricans is regarded as hint to Spain to
hurry. because if the island is con-
quered it will be occupied permanently.
otherwise it will apparently be spared.