Evening star., 1898-03-25

nature as to fnY4iye a direct menace to its
own owl indepenaenee' liberty or security. OF
the same opinion are writer's Of such au-
thority as kluber. Kant, Calvo, Heffter
Woolsey, Bfuntschli and many more: so
that 1t may be said that today the principle
of Intervention II accepted only In case q
state shall ask it. or when the fndepen-
dence or the sovereignty Of the state which
intervenes is menaced.
Even following the school which with
the greatest latitude admits Intervention
and which. goea-eoe far as to accept it in
case Of civil war,eHe- should find no pretext
in its principles to excuse the interference
OF a foreign natfeh IN the Cuban question.
In civil war state may intervene
during the strusgleH but never in favor of
the rebels, no matter how much 1t may
sympathize with their cause. Who. in
such a case, may solicit Intervention? The
government Of the disturbed country, which
has the right to pTsferve itself tBluntschIi.
art. 4l5). The Insurgents cannot ask In
tervention so long Us they have none of
to them before this would be the worst
kind of Intervention Bluntschli, art. 476).
No Pretext in Case of Cuba.
ut follows, then, that, even giving a dis
torted Interpretation to all these principles
of internationarslaw, there will be found
not even the shadow OF pretext for the
interference of foreign power in the in
surrection of the Spanish province; and if
such power should interfere, aside from the
fact that Spain would not consent to its
doing SO, history and the entire world
would give judgment against SO manifest
an outrage and SO fragrant a violation Of
law.
Besides, the insurgents being for some
time past reduced to so small number
that they can no longer commit the acts
Of brigandage which they formerly COM
mitted. not constituting and never having
constituted an organized army, and their
so-called rulers never having had fixed
nf th@ ~
any town or village, and never having per-
formed any act of government, no ground
can be found in the existence Of that revo-
luton for the recognition of the belliger-
ency of the rebels. nor for a thought even
Of interference, with any purpose or pre-
text, In the question; especially as, since
the establishment Of autonomy, the strug-
gle does not exist except in nomine, as
the insurgents are so few in number and
so lacking in resources that they can do
nothing more than fly before the Spanish
troops and keep up the state Of fnsurrec-
ton with their forays and their pillage,
the very reason that the. rebels are few
in number and are scattered about the
country and never face the army which
pursues them.
'It is, therefore, indubitable that the in
surrection exists only in these scattered
rarauding bands and in a so-called revo-
lutonary junta which resides in New
York. and which will naturally be the last
sEould ever do so, since the insurrection is
Its only means Of gaining livelihood with
out risk or fear. for 1t is too far away
from the balls and from the sufferings OF
the campaign to concern itself about what
Is passing in Cuba, so long as the so-called
revolution lasts.
The comparisons which The Evening
Star r,akss between the Cuban ques-
ton and the insurrection Of Greece against
Turkey In 1921, are altogether inadmissi-
bic; and 1t is pity that the writer, car
r1ed away by passion, should have made
a parallel which deprives his article of a
great part of its merit. as 1t shows that
he Is not familiar with the history Of the
Greek insurrection
How Is 1t possible to compare the situa-
ton Of Greece with regard to Turkey with
that Of Cuba with regard to Spain? Who
ever does so, forgets that Greece and
Turkey were two distinct nations; different
in race. in language in religion and in
union Of Greece With Turkey: Tue eS'G he forsets % I
with how heavy a yoke the Turks ap-
pressed the Greeks: and he forgets finally
to what unparalleled barbarities the Mus
sulman fanaticsm against the Greeks led.
AS no one who knows the history of this
event could think of comparing the situa-
ton of Greece with that Of Cuba. I will
not stop to make a comparative study of
questions SO widely different.
A Useless Attempt.
''I do not enter into a more detailed dis
cussion of the theory Of Intervention, as
srred that the principles to which I have
called attention are more than sufficient to
show how mistaken are the views set
forth in The Washington Evening Star,
and how useless iisg the attempt TO justify
the intervention, either direct or indirect.
of any power in the Cuban question. which,
terminated now in fact by Spain, with the
establishment Of autonomic rule, is re-
duced to struggle between the Cubans
hnu alx-aS xxyhf fch iS n hn
will soon end by the submission to the new
government OF those who. blinded by illu-
sorry hopes. desire to keep up revolution
against their own interests and that OF
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