Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1898-04-14

nection is made to recent diploma tic cor
| respondenCc.
! dispatch from our minister to Spain
/ OF the 18th ultimo contained that the
/ Spanish minister for foreign affairs as
surcd him positively that Spain will do all
that the highest honor and justice re-
/ quire in the matter of the Maine.
| The reply also referred to of the 3lst
! ultimo Also contained an expression OF
! the readiness of Spain to submit to arbi-
! tration all the differences which can arise
/ In this matter. which Is subsequently eX-
/ planned by the note of the Spanish minis
| ter ut Washington of the 10th inst, as
| follows:
AS to the question of fact which
| springs from the diversified views between
| representatives of the American ana the
| Spanish boards, Spain proposes that the
! fact be ascertancd by an impartial in
vestigaton by experts, which decision
| Spain accepts in advance. To this l have
made no reply"
| Another Precedent.
President Grant. in 1878, in discussing the
! purposes OF the Cuban contest as it then
| appeared. and the hopeless and apparent
| indefinite prolongation OF such event. said:
Il am of the opinion that other nations
! VIII be compelled to assume the RESPONSE
my "''''" "oN"iVcS upon 'hci'i' an" W
,,,,'.,.,,'. .o''' ',' '''1 oi'S io,''"'"'''e
Veniion. Owing. perhaps. to the large ex-
| panse OF water separating the island from
| the peninsula. the contending parties APP
| pear to have within themselves no depos-
,..i., - Np''i'''oi co'i'"ehce 10 suS6es.
| ha,' i P"9Sioii az" 'Aci'eiiiei'
~ sway anu 'Hu' ASSUME the
| part of peaccmaker"
In this view I'm the p:rIy dave Of tho ,op.
to,, ~, , 40 ,"e e's's u"Ss oi the CON
| W. 80 o'''''9 VI ,le ohltcu states
| r;th ,.,'. "'ir .eh''l'u /" soou
i,'t,r,., 49,, S e''ia'i 'ui P"se IN 'ne
sl,i,' ~, ~ ""'i'.i lS ana sincere irlehu-
| danI,n,1 49,, G't' "u' were AT ,''e 'iihe
,,ar,h,, i W." 'i'c "o. "'io'''
| ,,,,,, - h. i"tuie 'iile 'ticS
t',n,, i, t,iH'''c. 1|o iiitihha'oll mas
| ,,,n, 80, '', H. ~, 'ile op'hi'n VI SPAN
styifa nnr,tn,,,- ,,'i,, ou -. NV
.,,,h g., ii'i."'t "''ii an i's uieau horrors
| " 20 ~ .'c onIteu States ana
| cnn,,l - P''ts See'nS qui'e
| N''p''c W WORKING great INJURY ana dam
.9. ~ '',e ''i'ei as wei as TO All the rela-
| N'''' "'a" "l'c'eStS dependent on the exist
''Vc % '''ce IN the island; but they
.'.1 i l,I"i ''pie 81 reachlhe any agreement
"h', DUH nave thus lar Jailed of achieving
ana success whereby one party shall pos
StSS ana control the island to the eXclu-
SION OF the other.
Under the circumstances the agency of
others. either 10y mediation or by inter
vention, seems to be the only alternative
| which must sooner or later be involved
| for the termination of the strife.
In the last annual MESSAGE of my i'm
| mediate predecessor during tho nendin,
struggle it was said:
| "Whon the inability of Spain tn da.l
| successfully with the insurrection has bo.
come manifest. and If demonstrated tba,
| her sovereipntv 10 extirct In r,,h. for 81
purposes of its rightf,i, nvis,a,,oo or1
| when a bon,lo.s stru,,olo Co., e.. a.,''i,
| ish,nont has deronorn5nd in,a .t( 't,.,co
which means notbir,, r,oro tha ,-'
loss ,,cr;,ca 81 h,,,e, vs., e''t" .No w.
| destruction Of 49,, ,'1, i ''''.' nv ~ 'e,
| ,ho ,,,nutat 's' '''''''i vi
| ,.tth - ,,,.t ''O' "'' 'o P'c9'H'Vu III
~. c..,,; .,,, a''''''9 ~ .'ic soNere'Shty
,,.- W. "' 9"peiSc'c" ny hlsher ODD
,'r,',, "'+I' ',, W, van n''u'S hesitate &c
icroS"i~e AN" ulScllatSc'
ccmber last, speaking to this question.
.~,,, ,. e... ,,
whother mo ipdIsra,,s,,Ii o,'1i,i1'i a {
righteous peace. inst alike Ia the Cuban.
and Spain, as well as equitable to all our
| interests, so intimately involved in the
|eid'c oi Nuna' IS ilKeiy 10 he attained.
,,uI r1,i, ~ t"e oiIi'.u "'h
|