The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-29
Sentiment at Havana, as Reflected
By the Press.
OBLIGATION OF SPAH
TO PROTECT INTERESTS OF
SPANISH RESIDENTS.
Asserted That They Own Eighty Per
Cent of the Wealth OF the Island
Friction Between Americans
and Insurgents = Reported That
They Fire Upon Each Other Daily.

Havana, Aug. ZS.-(COrreSpOndence
of the Associated Press. )-Some recent
editorials in the Havana papers throw
interesting sidelights on the situation.
La Union Constitutional said yester-
day: 1T is impossible now to conceal
the fact that within the last three
months difficulties have been steadily
arising between the Americans and
the insurgents here and in the Philip
! pines. News received of late from
different sources indicate that these
differences exist and viii almost inevi-
| tably terminate in a rupture. For in
stance, the Spanish officers who recent
! ly arrived from Manzanillo, assert that
the rebels and Americans there used to
| fire at each other daily from their re-
! Spective camps.
SPANS hatred toward her common
! enemies was for a long time of equal
grade. The different methods, how
ever, employed by the Americans has
/ naturally had the result of making
! SPANS hostility less towards them
! than towards the Cuban rebels. The
Americans ought, indeed, to be
ashamed of their allies, for they came
| to Cuba ostensibly to aid the OPP
pressed and to secure them justice"
| La Lucia, discussing the duty of the
Madrid government, stated its view
in this wise: SPANS sovereignty has
| not been represented in Cuba by her
land and sea forces only. 1t has been
represented also by other factors and
| interests. which are really the ones
| from which she has derived her
strength, and to which her attention
has been primarily due. The first OBJ
! legation resting upon her, in treating
| for peace, is to protect the great wealth
| of those Spaniards and pro-Spanish
natives in Cuba, who have been the
real element of resistance against
everything contrary to the integrity of
! Spanish territory.
THE honor of the army must, of
course, be saved; but there are also the
concerns of those, now representing at
least so per cent of Cuba'S wealth, who,
through all the changing events, have
continued loyal to Spain and still con-
! tinue loyal. SPANS government must
] bear in mind that none of the Spanish
colonies has had a Spanish population
as large as Cuba's or so many natives
who have been faithful to Spain. In
the Spanish colonies of former days
those that are now republics and that
were necessarily abandoned by her be-
cause of the efforts of the foreigner to
conquer the peninsula itself-there was
nothing Spanish either in numbers or
in wealth, to compare with what is
Spanish in numbers and wealth in
Cuba today. Therefore, it follows that
the government. in feeling about for a
solution of the present problem, ought
to try to abide by a course that would
save, as far as possible, the great in
terests created in Cuba by the Spanish
family
FL Diario de la Marina, reproducing
the editorial in I'll impartial of Mad
rid, entitled 1.-The World for the
| Americans which that paper pub
lished about the time war was de-
clared, says: The Monroe doctrine has
been immensely extended among the
Americans. and they have applied it
to both the Americas. They feel strong
enough, perhaps, to change themselves
from gold miners into conquerors. 1t is
so handsome for these barbarians of
civilization to cry out The World for
the Americans Today it is against
Spain that they apply the principle.
Tomorrow it will be any other Euro
pean nation. There will always be a
chance to test their pretensions. The
American invasion, so terrifying and
astounding, can only be checked by
European patriotism But, alas, this
patriotism is coming to an end; for it
has seen Spain unjustly trampled down
in the name of humanity
La Union Constitutional, bitterly
DIOltSllUS dSdlIiSl IcpOitS that PCclNG
is to be concluded only after great ter
ritorial sacrifices by Spain, says:
In the battlefield or in the lesson
of a peace treaty, in war and in peace
alike, let us always be the same-gen-
uine Spaniards. If, for the interest Of
our race and for rights sake it be-
comes necessary. let us sacrifice every
thing to defend SPANS honor until the
last Spaniafd has given his life at the
Of "a I'll
MORO Thus we shall show that we
are willing to do our duty. Thus shall
we render a great service to Europe.
If the old world is to be made Subor-
dinate to the new; if the citizens of the
new world are to impose their ambi-
lions upon the convenience of the civ
ilized nations of the old, and if the old
world has forgotten its most important
interests and Spain is to be abandoned
in this titanic struggle, carried on by
her strength alone, and the sacrifice of
her sons; if this is to be our state, then
let the period close in happy day on
which Spain shall lend her services to
humanity"
A CORRESPONDENTS DIARY.
The following items have been trans
mitted by a Spanish correspondent in
diary form:
According to official figures it is
shown that prior to the beginning of
hostilities between Spain and the Unit
ed States, an aggregate of about $4,000
tons of provisions was imported month
ly at all the ports in Cuba, but that
since the commencement of the war
the loss in volume of these imports
has amounted TO 100000 tons.
The Menendez line of coasting steam
ers has lost five vessels since the
Americans invaded the island, as fol-
lows: The Argonauta, captured by
American warships at Cienfuegos; the
Reina de Los Angeles, seized at San
tiago de Cuba after the capitulation
of that place, and the Jose Garcia,
Gloria and Purissima Conception,
burned during the bombardment Of the
port OF Manzanillo.
On the night of July q the insurgent
leader, Juan Hernandez, was killed in
a fight with a Spanish guerilla force,
which had ambushed the party. The
Spaniards had one soldier wounded.
On the 9th the insurgents had an
encounter with Spanish troops near
Placets.s, in the province of SAINTS
Clara, which resulted in the killing of
one insurgent and the wounding of 10
others a Spanish captain was badly
wounded.
On July 2S a committee representing
the guards and Jail employees of this
city presented a request to the civil
governor that they be paid at least a
portion of their long overdue salaries.
Reports received here on July % from
the province of Puerto Principe show
that the ruin in that part of the island
is very bad Provisions were scarce
and the little to be had were held at