The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-03-27
M'klNLeY NOTIFIES SPAIN.
He Tells the Dons That the War in Cuba
Must Cease.

/ nv Aehb tue DOus Iuat the w ar cuba
Must Cease.
New York. March GA dispatch to
the World from Madrid says: Presi-
dent Mckinley has cabled two notes to
Spain this week through Minister
Woodford. One deals with the destruc-
| ton of the Maine. the other with Presi-
| dent McKinley's plan of humanitarian
Intervention by the United States in
the Cuban war. Both notes are ex-
pressed in strong, firm language, with
| out suggestion of threat. They are,
perhaps, merely preliminary.
For the destruction of the Maine, the
president demands no indemnity. He
merely acquaints the Madrid govern
ment with the fact that the naval court
of inquiry finds that the ship was
blown up in Havana harbor by an ex-
ternal agency. and that nothing but a
mine or torpedo of the largest size
could have wrought the destruction.
The president submits the facts to the
Spanish government and awaits reply
Mr.. Woodford did not even demand an
early response.
AS to the war in Cuba. President Nc
kinley advised the Spanish govern
ment. i'm the politest terms, that the
time is fast drawing near when the
United States would be compelled to
act upon the warning so often given
to Spain since the struggle in Cuba be-
gan.
The president clearly intimated that
the war In Cuba must cease, but he
fixed no date. The note thus makes
the question of Cuban Intervention par
amount TO the Maine catastrophe
which the presidents memorandum re-
fers to merely as a lamentable incident
The issues and problems of the Cuban
war, the United States government
now calls urgently 10 the attention of
Spain. declaring that the conditions
now prevailing in Cuba. so near to the
shores of the United States, have long
been intolerable to the American peo-
pie.
Spain was reminded by Mr.. Wood
ford that the action of the president
and his associates during the present
and late administration has always
been aimed at the preservation of peace
and the promotion of cordial relations
with Spain. President Mckinley signi-
fies TO the government of Spain his in
tentions of Immediately communi-
eating all facts in his possession re-
garding Cuba, and the Maine report
also, to congress. He further contem-
plates a step which will make the dis
tribution of relief by the United States
to the Cubans more effective and upon
a much larger scale.
The nearest approach to a threat in
President McKinley's memorandum
Sdiu 10 ana
couched in the most dignified but unmis-
taxable terms, is the statement that in
making fresh contributions for the relief
of the suffering people In Cuba the
American people expect n practical term
assigned for the complete restoration OF
peace and order in that island.
The Spanish reply is equally firm. II
resolutely 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 I'm Cuba.
Spain deprecates sending wholesale re-
lief in the manner suggested by President
Mckinley on the ground that IL will en-
courage rebels tseparatists is the term
employed) even If IL does not lead to ac-
tual conflict between the authorities of
the United States and Spain. But Spain
does not refuse the aims. She will not re-
sist this step. probably. Spain lays much
stress upon the efforts 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 be-
of the moral and material assist
ance given from the United States and
the large rebellion fund raised in North /
America.
On the Maine question Spain makes
but vague responses. hoping
that a just solution will be found. declin-
ing to accept the American naval courts
verdict final. and suggesting possible
arbitration of the entire question along
with her own claims against the United
States.