The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-03-27
British Opinion Can See No Other
Alternative For America.
END OF CUBAN SCANDAL
INTERVENTION FOR THIS PUR-
POSE NO LONGER JINGoIsM.
Spain's Pretensions That She Has
Funds and Material Sufficient Are
Untenable-War Would Be Felt
Worse In Madrid Than New York
Crisis In British Politics.

London. March 26.-(Copyrighted, 1898.
by the Associated Press. )-Although
public opinion on this side of the At
lantic, as in America, had already dis
counted the findings of the United
States court of inquiry into the loss of
the Maine, and actual confirmation was
expected, the verdict only served to
whet peoples appetites. 1t has in no
way alleviated the suspense or the anX-
iety in regard TO the immediate effect
produced by the report nor the eager
ness to know the position which Pres
ident Mckinley and his cabinet propose
to take up in this difficult and delicate
| situation. So intense is the interest in
the latest turn of the kaleidoscope that
it has immeasurabiy increased the
nervous tension which has been agitat-
ing Europe for the last three months.
| There is little hope here that hostilities
can be avoided, and it is believed the
revelation now officially made will so
combine the other factors of the situa-
ton as to make war inevitable, though
1t is still regarded as possible that
/ Spain, at the last moment, will see the
hopelessness of maintaining her posi-
J ton and yield to the inevitable without
as a British admiralty official said:
having lue leSSOu uuineICIUlly NAM
mered into her. although the hammer
| ing may possibly not be accomplished
until after her spirits have been raised
by temporary success"
NO LONGER A JINGO MEASURE.
| 1t is at last realized here that the
| movement to end the Cuban scandal is
no longer in the hands of the jingoes,
but that the solid element of the United
States bids the executive to act when
: the proper moment arises; that the
risks have been estimated, and that the
great body of Americans are ready to
face them.
So far as it is possible to ascertain
the general diplomatic opinion, it can
/ be summed up in the words of a for
eign officer, who remarked: THE pres
ervation of peace depends upon the
temper Spain displays when the newt
able notification is received. The pres
| ident proposes to aid the sufferers by
distributing food, clothes and medi-
cines from American warships and
transports, precisely as Great Britain
is now unOfficially and on a smaller
scale, doing in Crete, and unless Spain
pockets her overweening conceit, which
has hitherto made the recognition of
her failure impossible to her. a rupture
must come from that quarter, and
Spain will put herself hOpelessly in the
wrong.
PRETENTIONS UNTENABLE.
"Spain's pretentions of preparedness
for war and her finance minister's as
surance that she has sufficient funds
therefor are equally untenable, unless
the latter contemplates the immediate
suspension of specie payments and the
payment of the interest on the debt in
paper. The truth is that Spain is no
more in a position to fight the United
States than was Greece to fight Tur-
key. The one great hope of the Euro
pean chancellOries is that the president
will succeed in delaying 1.-THE explosion
until, under the guise of autonomy, ar
rangementS may possibly be made to
facilitate Spains giving up Cuba 1t
must be remembered that for two
years, although Spain has at times as
sumed a vigorous attitude, she has in
variably failed to maintain it when the
crisis was reached. The suggestion of
the continental press of Intervention
upon the part of the European powers
is mischievous, and nothing is more
certain to provoke hoStilities.
1t has been suggested that the pres
ence in London of the Infanta Eulalie
is connected in some way with diplo-
macy; but the list of guests at the Of
fetal dinner given in her honor at the
Spanish ambassadors. hardly lends
color to the assumption.
WORSE OFF IN MADRID.
The Statist says: while the out
break or hostilities would seriously at
feet New York, Madrid would be much
worse off. It would mean the imme-
date suspension of specie payments,
and either the suspension of interest on
the debt or paper payment The imam
cial crisis would react on Paris, with
II. - rEaa
whole of New York'S demand for gold
on London. and so indirectly affecting
the prices of all securities
Continuing, the StatiSL remarks: THE
government is indebted to the Bank of
Spain between IL aud u hundred mil
lion pesetas, about 40 per cent more
than in 1897. and the position of the
bank is such that the suspension ot
specie payments is bound to follow any
large tender of notes. Its bullion is
only 40 per cent of it's note circula-
tion."
According to Madrid advices the pa
pers there are whiStling loudly, trying
to arouse Il sense of wrong, with the
doctrine that war de factO was declared
when the United States permitted sup
port to be furnished to the insurgents
NEWS RESTRICTED.
During the week strict censorship de
uuded the newspapers of news, and !
created widespread alarm. This was
enhanced by the suppression of all news
of the movements of the Spanish tor
pedo fiotilla, and the announcement
that a cruiser would accompany the de-
stroyers. which was taken TO mean that
the Spaniards feared attempts would be
made by the United States to stop the
fictilla on its way to Porto Rico.
Great interest is taken in the cleo
ticns tomorrow for the members of the
SPANISH chamber of deputies. 1t is re-
ported that General Weyler has tele-
graphed to his friends in Cube to with /
draw their candidatures for seats in the
Cuban chamber.
Mr.. Sidney Webb, chairman of the
technical education board, is a passen- (
ger on the White line steamship Teu- 7
tt.ric. which sailed for New York on