The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-14
SPANS GOOD FAITH.
More in the DeLOme Letter Than an
Insult to the President.

Insult to the President.
1t is animated in the Washington dis
patches of yesterday that there may be
further correspondence between this
government and Spain. growing out OF
the De LONE letter. not because of the
ex-Minister's insult to the President,
which is regarded as a closed incident
but because of other utterances in the
letter which indicate that Spain, through
De Lone, was not acting in good faith
towards this government. The letter in
full, as translated at the state depart
ment is as follows:
Legation de Espana, Washington.-Exi-
mo Senior Don Jose Canalejas-My Distln-
guished and Dear Friend You need not
apologize for not having written to me; l
also ought 90 have written to you, but have
not done so on account of being weighed
down with work, and nous sommes
quittes.
The situation here continues unchanged
Everything depends on the political and
military success in Cuba. The prologue
of this second method of warfare will end
the day that the colonial cabinet will he
appointed, and it relieves us in the eyes
of this country of part of the respon-
sibility of what may happen there, ana
they must cast the responsibility upon the
Cubans, whom they believe to be so I'M
maculate.
Until then we win not be able to see
clearly, and ! consider IL to be a loss OF
time and an advance by the wrong road
the sending of emissarieS to- the rebel
fields, the negotiating with the autono-
msts not yet declared to be legally con-
stituted, and the discovery of the inten-
tons and purpose of this government. The
exiles will return one by one and when
they return will come walking into tie
sheepfold, and the chiefs win gradually re-
turn. Neither of these had the courage
to leave en- masse, and they will not have
the courage to thus return.
The message has undeceved the insur-
gents, who expected something else, and
has paralyzed the action of Congress, but
1 consider 1t bad.
Besides the natural and inevitable coarse-
ness with which he repeats all that the
press and public opinion of Spain has said
of Weyler, it shows once more what Nc
Knley is. weak and catering to the rab-
BILE, and, besides, a low politician, who de-
sires to leave a door open to me and to
stand well. with the jiDgoes of his party.
Nevertheless. as a matter of fact, it win
only depend on ourselves whether he will
prove bad and adverse to us. agree en-
tirely with you, without military success
nothing will be accomplished there; cid,
without military and political success,
there Is here always danger that the IN
surgents will be encouraged, If not by the
government, at least by part of the public
opinion.
l do not believe you pay enough atten-
ton to the role of England. Nearly all that
newspaper canaille which swarms in your
hotel are English, and at the same time
that they are correspondents of the Jour
nal, they are also correspondents of the
best newspapers and reviews of London.
Thus il has been since the beginning. To
my mind the only object of England is
that the Americans should occupy them
selves with us and leave ner in peace; and,
if there is war, so much the better; that
would further remove what is threatening
Ter, although that will never happen.
1t would be most important that you
should agitate the question of commercial
relations, even though 1t would be only for
effect. and that you should send here
man of Importance in order that / might
use him, TO make propaganda among the
senators and others in opposition to the
Junta and to win over eXieS.
There goes Amblarad. l believe NE
comes too deeply taken up with little po-
ltical matters, and there must be some
thing very great, or we shall lose.
Adela returns your salutation, and we
wish you in the new year to be a messenger
of peace and take this new years pres
ent to poor Spain.
Always your attentive friend and serv-
ant, who kisses your hands,
Enrique Dupuy De LONE.