The evening times., 1898-11-29

In this mornings news from Paris
sanie ghe details Of the reply to Spain
To- the stern demand of America, the
essential facts of which We're presented
by The Times two days in advance Of its
Associated Press contemporaries. If
there WAS no instant organized jubilee.
it is certain that the hearts of all loyal
Americans, strong i'm the right and in
confidence for the future, swelled with
just pride. not merely or chiefly over
the righteous blow the Republic has
dealt to an ancient criminal empire that
cursed the earth too long but mainly
over the accomplishing MT of a great step
that was the logical outcome Of the
best teachings Of jefferson. who fore
saw with peculiar clearness the part
this nation should play in the worlds
affairs. OF sorrow for Spain there is
none. The American Commissioners
were impressed by the dignity of the
Spanish representatives who had before
conducted the negotiations like Willful
boys; but the crimes of the fallen en-
pire are too appalling 10 win for her a
single tear-she who has waded in the
tears of innOcents and has been merci-
less. Her tremendous losses. which
leave her shattered. decrepit state.
threatened with domestic revolution
and bankruptcy, are the just penalties
of her long contempt for every law of
God and Of civilization. Her treachery
in blowing up the Maine was in har-
mony with her long career of crime. and
in our remembrance of that perfidy the
countless numbers she has tortured TO
the death have their righteous ven
geance. while other numbers are saved
from the same horrible fate We have
not simply added some nine millions TO
our population. but have rescued them
from the hands of the savage. So there
is the double cause of rejoicing-in the
banishment of Spanish barbarism from
their lives and in the extension of the
blessings of American institutions To
their lands
We have gained Porto Rico and con-
tiguous small islands with an area of
three thousand five hundred square
miles and population of eight Kindred
and six thousand seven hundred and
eight souls; the Philippines, with an
area Of one hundred and fourteen thou
sand three hundred and twenty-six
square miles and a population of eight
million or more; the included Sulu
group with an. area Of nine hundred
and fifty square miles and a population
Of sevonty-five thousand: the Island of
Guam. the largest Of the Ladrones. with
an area of one hundred and twenty
square miles and a population of about
nine thousand; the Isle of Pines, with
an area Of one thousand two hundred
and fourteen square miles and popu-
lati0n Of three thousand. A total of one
hundred and twenty thousand one hun
dred and ten square miles of territory
with an aggregate population of about
nine rlillioh.- There has been gained-for
freedom, too Cuba, with an area of one
hundred and nineteen thousand two
hundred ami forty square miles and a
present population Of about a million
and half The cost to this country M
TO the close of the war was a little mare
than two hundred millions. including
the indemnity to Spain, while the cost
TO the enemy has been fully a thousand
millions There remain to Spain less
than two hundred thousand subjects
outside her own boundaries. To this she
has descended from one of the grand
est empires the earth has ever known,
and for no other cause than her scorn
Of every principle of justice and every
mandate Of mercy. At the end she was
not less cruel and vindietive, not less
savage in her torture and slaughter Of
the innocent women and children Of
Cuba, than in the height of her pride
and the terror of her Inquisition. From
every church in this land, Catholic and