Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-03-08
WHAT SPAIN WILL DO NOW.
Failure of Autonomy Spanish Army In
Cuba Parilyked.

New York, March S.--A dispatch to
the Tribune from Havana says:
When arms failed. Spain fell back
on politics to gain peace in Cuba Now
that politics has failed. she seeks to
fall back on arms. This is the
meaning of the declaration from Madrid
that Sagasta has decided to press au-
tonomy vigorously by both military and
political measures, II is the minister's
confession of the failure of the radica!
autonomists TO reach the Insurgents
with their twelve articles Of weakened
faith. Had there been hope of sue
cess by opening negotiations with Go
mez on this basis the Madrid cabinet
would have temporized and evnded a
positive declaration. There being no
hope, the prospective rejection by the
insurgents OF the terms offered is dis
counted by a disavowal in advance.
Gown in the cabinet and Ambard and
Giberga out of It. are left to make
their own explanations. They antici-
pated that something Of this kind would
happen, and they can probably take
care OF themselves. Had the movement
promised well, they knew 1t would have
been encouraged and supported In
Madrid.
Meantime the historic autonomists in
the cabinet, Galvez, MontNro and Zayas,
come out from behind their own shad-
dorsed the plans
1t is true that the central committee
or tunta of the autonomists' party act
ed over their heads, Informally COM
hitting the organization to further
concessions to the insurgents, but IL the
professed departure had possessed vi
tality In would have been In danger
from their opposition. The sutonomists
are still the fractional minority of
party that has been small in numbers
Ordinarily u conflict raging In a cabinet
would mean disruption. However, the
autonomist cabinet has so little to do
with the actual government of Cuba,
such government us II Is. that no more
attention is paid 10 the radically OPP
posing position OF Its members than TO
a mere difference of personal opinion.
The promises that peace will come by
arms will divert attention from the
breakdown OF the political support OF
autonomy only temporarily. The army
of Spain, which In spread over the
island. is paralyzed. 1t cannot achieve
n single important victory much less
carry on n military campaign. When
by chance the insurgents are encount-
cred in the fields, II the troops hold
their own II becomes subject of con-
gratulations. A month has gone by
since General Blanco told the people in
the eastern provinces that they should
have peace by the end Of February
A charitable construction was put upon
the words, and the date was said to
be approximate" That elastic term
cannot be held much longer.
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The attempt Is made to divert atten-
ton from the parnlyzed army ON the
island to the vigorous power on the
water. The Vizcaya and the Almirante
Oquendo appeal to the popular mind
They revive Spanish patriotism.
How their guns are TO be aimed
against the insurgents In the hills and
woods Is not explained. nor is ex-
PLANTATION demanded. The people are
more impressed with the ships as
probable force against the United
States than as means OF fighting the
insurgents. The spasm may prove q