The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-10-21
SPANIARDS DESP AIR
HAVE GIVEN UP ALL HOPE FOR
CONCESSIONS FROM AMER
ICANS
SPAIN CANNOT BUT YIELD
Has No Idea of Again Falling Into
the Folly of Waging a War That
Could Result Only in Defeat
American missiOners Stu
diOusIy Aveid Verbal Discussions
of Points at Issue.

LONDON. Oct. 21.-The Paris CORE
spondent of the Times says:
II had a visit today (Thursday) from
a great Spanish parsonage, who seems
to have been commissioned to ascer-
tain the trend of public opinion on the
peace negotiations. He appeared to
be much depressed. He has found
great sympathy with Spain, but has
been unable to discover any possibility
Of obtaining moral support against the
American delegates, who are inf1exi-
BILE in their demands, and with much
politeness of form have hitherto cate
gorically refused to make the slightest
concessions on any Of the instructions
received by them, never having asked
their own government for the slightest
notifications.
IT have already explained the mode
Of negotiations. Memoirs are handed
in which are translated and replied to
in the politest fashion The Spanish
commissioners turn the discussion into
a verbal exchange of views in order to
obtain some deviation from the in
flexible fine marked out by the Amer
lean government for it's representa-
tives.
''Senor Abarruza, who is a master Of
the English language, is the Spanish
commissioner who makes the attempts
| to lead to conversation, and, as he is
described as very persisting and elo-
| quent, he always makes a profound
| impression. The Americans, however,
listen attentively, but rigidly main
foi ho of
| The intended sitting yesterday could
not be held because the Spaniards, in
! view of the written replies made by
! them, renounced their attempts at con-
! versation and asked forty-eight hours
grace to consult their government and
| prepare a written rejoinder. The
friend who called told me he had
| found his country much discouraged,
becoming convinced that the United
States are bent on a rigorous exercise
! of the rights Of the victor.
ABUSE OF VICTORY.
"I have heard you say he remark
| ed, that Prince Bismarck once said to
ycu: When you have your knee on a
| vanquished nation you can take from
| it all you like, but you must always
DGWd4S VI abusing SOuI= NFClO1y anu
| exaggerating your conquest; otherwise
you load yourselves for many genera
tions with a crushing burden, which
ends by having the most mischievous
results for the victor-always more
| than for the vanQuished
my caller remarked: The Ameri-
cans are not accepting this wise and
humane view They seem bent on
pushing the results of the war to their
extreme consequences. They refuse to
| entertain any concessions on the finan-
! cial question, and while declining to
undertake sovereignty in Cuba, they
maintain that the Cuban debt is a
Spanish debt and that Spain abused
her sovereignty by saddNng the island
| with the interest of a debt by which
she alone profted.
Vainly have We urged that they
| themselves accepted financial obliga-
| tions toward England after the war of
independence, that they accepted the
burdens of Texas after. the conquest,
that there is no more. general law
than the law Of the obligation Of a