The herald., 1898-07-30
THE EUROPEAN PRESS
THE GERMAN PRESS CHANGING
ITS TUNE RAPIDLY
Say Their Government Has Been In.
judicious-Praise for Generosity
Shown Spain

BERLIN, July 29.-The Frankfurter Eel
tung, reviewing the war and the role Ger
many has played, regrets the attacks tbs
German press has made against the United
States, and arrives at the conclusion that
Germany has behaved in a thoroughly
injudicious manner"
LONDON, July 29-The weekly papers
credit the United States with desire to
deal generously with Spain. The Satur-
day Review says: I'VE are convinced that
America will not play the part of Shy
lock, but now that she has learned to APP
preciate the bravery and fighting qualities
of the Spaniards, as we'll as the worthless
ness of the Cuban rebels, she will make OBJ
vious atonement for the precipitancy with
which she entered upon the war by dealing
generously with her opponent"
The Spectator devotes an article to q
eulogy of the splendid manner in which Mr..
Mckinley has risen to the requirement ca
high and difficult position. 1.-The president
has developed latent talents, showing him
to be the possessor of many of Lincoln s
great qualities. 1t would be remarkable"
the Spectator continues, IF for the second
time in generation the American system
of really an elective monarchy proves its
strong system Of dealing with great crises.
Europe may have been hasty in rejecting
the very idea of an elective monarchy as
fatal, alike to stability and strength"
The Times in an editorial this morning
on the terms of peace confines itself to a
discussion of the questions raised in the
Philippines. 1t says:
1t seems equally difficult for America to
take or leave them. Spain had trouble
enough to hold them before the war. She
will be still more embarrassed now, and
probably would not remain long without
tempting offers from some of the powers,
which hope her poverty might impel her
10 accept
Had America demanded a cession of the
Philippines outright, Spain could hardly
avoid yielding. Now she may find in her
very weakness the means of softening the
other conditions of peace. For, since the
United States has decided that the ISLANDS
are not worth annexing, some arrange
ment must be made with Spain to insure
the reversion of the islands to the United
States in the event of SPANS failing to
maintain tolerable government
LONDON. July 30.-The Madrid corre-
spondent of the Times says that according
to newspaper statement Senior Gamazo
the Spanish minister of public instruction
and public works. said in the course of an
Interview at Madrid yesterday:
Spain has not asked an armistice or even
suspension of hostilities. That would be
tantamount to beseeching the enemy not
to strike u.s. We shall never come to that
1.-THE message to the United States, while
recognizing the superiority of the Yankee
forces and their military operations, is
confined to terms so dignuified that when
the document is published no one will able
to say 1t Is humiliating. 1t asks whether
the United States is disposed to make
peace, but requests neither truces nor
armistices.'
The Times correspondent says Senior
Gamazo added:
"If Manila surrenders. the equalization
will only apply to the walled town"
The Madrid correspondent of the Daily
Mail says:
1.-THE Spanish government will combat
to the last the cession of Porto Rico to the
United States. 1t would much rather sac
rifice one of the Philippine Islands, con-
tending that Porto Rico has always been
loyal and outsid, the scope of the war"