The evening times., 1898-02-09
Text OF the Letter.


wanna, and the time at which Sen9r
Canalejas was there.
Text of the Letter.
Ny Distinguished and Dear Friend:
You need not apologize for not having
written To ne. 1 also ought to have
written TO Ypu. but have not done 80 ON
account OF b.ing weighed down with work
and nous 10 nnes quittes.
The situa'ion here continues unchanged.
Everything depends on the political and
military success In Cuba. The prologue
OF this secoud method Of warfare will
end the day that the colonial cabinet shall
be appointed and it relieves US in the
eyes OF this cougtTy OF a part OF the re-
spOnsibiity e what may happen there.
and they must cast the responsibility upon
the Cubans. whom they believe to Ice 20
immaculate.
Until then we will not be able to see
clearly, and 1 consider it to be a loss
road-the scndlng OF eniiSsaries To the
rebel field. the negotiating with the
Antonornists not yet declared TO he legally
constituted. and the discovery of the in
tentions and purpose OF this Government.
The exiles will return one by one and
when they ,eturn will come walking into
the sheer -fo'd. and the chiefs will grad
uaIly return Neither OF these had the
courage TO leave en- masse, and they will
not have the courage to thusreturn. The
message has undeceiv Ell he insurgents. who
expected something else, and has par
alyzed the action of Congress. but | con-
slider it bad.
Beside e.. tie natural and inevit-
which he ,ercats all tina { the press
ana public opinion of Spain has said
of weyIcr shows once more what
Mckinley =, weak and catering
to the rarble; and, besides, low
politician who desires to leave
door oEen to me ard io stand well
with the ii1goes of his party Never
theless. "a "A matter of fact, il Will
derend only ON Ou selves whether he
VIII prove bad and adverse TO us
1 agree entirely with you. Without a
military success nothing will he accom-
compIished here. and without military
and political success there is here al
ways dang,r that the insurgents will he
encouraged, il not by the Government, at
least by part OF the public opinion.
1 do not iieve you pay enough atten-
tion to the role of England. Nearly all
that newspaper canaillc which swarms in
your hotels bTe English and at the same time
that they are correspondents Of the Journal
they are also correspondents Of the best
newspapers end reviews OF London. Thus
it has been since the beginning. To my
mind the only object of England is that
the Americ las should occupy themselves
with us AMI leave her in peace, and IL
there is var, so much the better; that
would furth,r remove what is threatening
her although that will never happen.
1t would he most important that you
should agitlte the question of commercial
relations, even though IL would I've only
for effect. AID that you should send here
a man of Importance in order that might
use him to make a propa ganda among the
Senators and Others in opposition to the
junta, and 80 win over exiles.
There goes Ambiarad. believe he
comes too deeply taken up with little po-
litical matters. and there must he some
Adela ret:.rns your salutation and we
wish you in the New Year to be mes
senger OF peace, and take this New Years
present to poor Spain.
Always yoI attentive friend and servant
who kisses your hands,
ENRIQUE DUPUY DE LONE.
The foregoing letter, alleged to have
been written by the representative of a
foreign government, recalls the Sack
ville-We incident of 1888.
In the Cleveland Harrison campaign |
Of that year, in response to a written |