The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-04-02
Declares She Will Tolerate No 1nva-
sion Of Her Rights in Cuba.


A dispatch to the N. Y. World
from Madrid, March 9th, says:
President Mckinley has cabled two
notes to Spain this week through Minister
Woodtord. One deals with the destruc-
ton of the Maine; the other with Presi-
dent McKinieys plan of humanitarian
intervention by the United States in the
Cuban war. Both notes are expressed 10
strong, fru. language, without suggestion
of threat. They are, perhaps, merely
preliminary.
For the destruction of the Maine the
president demands no indemnity. He
merely acquslnls the Madrid government
with the tact that the naval courto In
Quiry finds that the ship Was blown up In
Havana harbor by an external agency,
and that nothing but mine or torpedo
Of the largest size could have wrought
such destruction. The president submits
the facts to the Spanish government and
waits reply.
As to the war in Cuba, President Nc
kinney advised the Spanish government,
| in the polltest terms, that the time Is last
drawing near when the Upited States
would be compelled to act upon the warn
ing so often given to Spain since the
struggle in Cuba began.
The president clearly intimated that the
war IN Guba must cease, but he fixed no
date. The note thus makes the question
of Cuban intervention paramount to the
Maine. catastrophe, which the presidents
memorandum refers to merely as la
mentabie incident. The issue and prob
lens Of the Cuban war the Upited States
government now calls urgently to the at
tention of Spain, declaring that the con
dltiOns now prevailing in Cuba, so near to
the shores OF the United States, have long
been intOlerable to the American people.
Spain was reminded by Minister Wood
foro that the action OF the president and
his representatives during the present late
administration has always been aimed ut
the preservation of peace and the promo
ton Of cordial relations with Spain.
The President also informed the
Spanish Government that he con-
templated making the distribution
of relief by the United States to
the Cubans more effective and upon
much larger scale.
SPANS reply is firm. 1t reso-
lutely asserts the intention of Spain
not to tolerate any invasion Of
Spanish rights or any step intended
to lead to the overthrow OF the
Spanish rule in Cuba.
Spain deprecaGes sending whole-
sale relief in the manner suggested
by President Mckinley. on the
ground that it will encourage rebels
(separatists is the term employed
even it it does not lead ~ actual
conflict between the authorities Of
the United States and Spain. But
Spain does not refuse the aims.
Sue will not resist this step, prob
ably. Spain lays much stress upon
the effects she has made to satisfy
the views Of the United States and
to preserve cordial relations while
endeavoring to implant home rule
and thus hasten the pacification OF
Cuba, which has been retarded SO
long only because ofthe moral and
material assistance given from the
United States and the large rebel
lion fund raised in North America.
On the Maine question Span
makes conciliatory but vague re-
sponses, hoping tina: just solution
will be found, declining to accept
the American naval court verdict
as final, and suggesting possible
arbitration of the entire question,
along With her own claims against
the United States,