The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-12-18
Continues to Harp on the Results Of
the War with America.
SPAIN STILL HAS HER HONOR LEFT.
He Claims that the Philippines Have Never
Yet Been Conquered.
TROUBLE PREDICTED FOR UNITED STATES
natives Will Not Easily BE snbju-
understanding Over the Cause
OF the Names Destruction.

London. December 17.--The following is
the text OF the Interview between Senior
Montero Rios, president of the Spanish
peace commission, and NJ De Blowltz,
correspondent Of the London Times, aud
quoted in that. paper today. Senor Rios Is
quoted as saying:
I'VE have fulfllcd here a very painful
mission, In which II Is impossible to dream
OF looking forward with any satisfaction
but that of doing our duty. We depart
without other consolation than the excla-
nation: Tout est perdn esauf Thonneur.'
IAN is lost but honor.) We knew in nd
VANCE that we should have to deal With
an implacable conqueror who would In no
way concern himself with any pre- existing
International law, but whose sole object
was TO reap from victory the largest pos
sibe advantage. This conception OF inter
national law is absolutely new. 1t is no
longer case OF might against right, but
of might without right. AS for us, we had
only TO protest ourselves against the abase-
ment which 1t was desired TO inlet upon
US and to prove in spite OF our blunders
and mistakes that We had not compromised
ahe proyerbiai loyalty TO the CasIllian
fatherlanG.
Misfortune also has grandeur. The
Americans have acted as 'yainquers par
venues (Upstart conquerors.) They do not
yet know the misfortune OF defeat but
there are things which tho most fortunate
nations can not escape later on'-when
they too, win have had reverscs--when
they will have become homogeneous and
are no longer Obliged to satisfy the eS-
igencles of political parties they, too, VIII
form. like all other nations with past
a code of international rights and duties
and less inflexible toward those who have
suffered defeat They Will better under
stand that a strict observance of conditions
agreed to, even in the thick of n fight, Is
guarantee and protection for all CON
ceTned for the conqueror, as we'll as the
yanqrished.
1--WE signed on August IL "A protocol sus.
pending hnstilities and 1t was on the 14tl
that the American general demanded th'
surrender of Manila. The archipelago hat
not been won and has not yet been con.
quered The fate OF the Philippines re-
manned Undetermined and Spanish SOW
ereignty was still in force, since we wer'
still waging war with considerable force:
to suppress the fnsurrection. But after
Journey across portion of the United
StateS IrcSlacnt MchInley cnhnSeu nv
policy and decided upon claiming thu
Philippines by right of conquest. Yet
repeat the Philippines, even now, are still
unconquered. The two chief islands, TIL
two richegt--Mindenao and Lu2on--are no
won, Mindenao md the Island of the Grea
Lake contain population of half breeds
half Malay and half Spanish. constitutinl
military ollgarchy which rules the res
OF the islands and occupies the riches
portion of the territory on the shores o
the lake. They are proud, strong and war
like, and not only are they unconquered
but their conquest wiN not be accomplished
easily. Yet the United States claimed then
as well as the other Islands, as though tn
conquest was complete.
But what most pains me is that thi
great whirlwind in which we have los