The Wichita daily eagle., 1898-04-10
No LOVE FOR SPAIN
England is Not Shedding the
Sympathetic Tear.
NOR GERMANY, EITHER
Business Considerations Are
Enough For the FatherIand'

Copyrighted 1898 by the Associated Press)
London, April s.-If anything was want
ing 10 onfirm the European belief that
the Cuban risis has reahed an impasse
from which there is no issue but war or
the hauling down of the Spanish nag II
has been found in President Mckinney
report to the ambassadorial note presented
in Washington on Thursday last, 50
strongly re-assertng the determination
that there is only one way 20 prevent the
United tSa.tes intervening to END the tSi-
riblA situation As a matter of fact. no
confirmation was wanted. for Europe
only real hope Of q peaceful solution or ohe
question was based on the belief mat
when tlle- ealized the fuhlHy OF the N ESSl-
strung calk about their honor the Span
iards would accept the alternative ana
surrender. The aTnbassador1Al appeal al
Warrington was regarded as an obvious
forrnality. The British official view ot the
matter is, as the Associated Press mas
already set forth. that the occasion WAS
one tcr the sole exercise Of American dis
cretion. and that the American attitude
toward Cuba is the same as any otner
civilized and self-respectinS government
would hold under similar circumstances
Practically the whole of this country
takes the same view Of the case. Great
britain has nothing to thank Spain for
Whenever commercial questions nave
been raised, Great Britain mas found
Spain obstructive, jntractable and arD-
trary. as the United States finds her TO-
da.y. and the modicum of sympathy found
in some quarters is simply a sort OF senu-
mental pity at the fact that Spain should
be deprived o fher last great colony
PRO-sPANIsH FRESHMAN.
One of the few discordant notes in the
paean of sympathy with the aims OF the
United States comes from quarter 1t
was least expected from. The Freeman's S
Journal. the organ of the irish National
is. leader, Mr.. John Dillon, a paper claim
ing to represent the Irish party, after
fat -footedly expressin gthe hope that
Spain will win in the expected war, asks:
Is there a nation in the world which
could brook the insults ieveled az the
Spaniards in the American press or which
would not protest against the stand-and-
deliver policy adopted?"
In conclusion the Freeman's s Journal re-
marks:
In our opinion, the United States would
he better employed helping Spain to make
autonomy a success, rather than in forcing
Z deplorable war. The latest advices show
the Americans do not want TO deliver
Cuba to the Cubans."
The Irish Independent league has p~o-
tested against this pro-Spanish declara-
ton. and has passed a resolution of sym
pathy with the United States, repudiatng
with scorn and indignation the declaration
Of the Freeman's Journal.
The resolutions adopted by the New
York Chamber of Commerce at its recent
meeting are regarded as a highly impor-
tant factor of the situation. and as giving
the approval Of the business men 70 the
war policy.
IN PURE observation-disclosures.
During the course Of a conversation, a
high official Of the British foreign office
said:
The certain difficulties and possible
dangers which the United States Is in
vitlng by its attitude. besides the vast
c1st and the disquieting uncertainties Of
war itself. all of which could be avoided
hv a policy of indifference, show the sing O.
mindedness of the American aims and
constitute an irresuble claim on the sym
nathies Of other nations, for the assured
losses are not counterbalauced by any
prospect Of gain
The presidents policy is statesmanlk'
and essentially humane. and while We may
view apprehensively the ultimate results
10 America herself ofthe necessity for in
Producing order in the government of Gu
ba. the SOLUTION OF the insufferable scan
dal viii not he too dearly purchased a
the cost Of war. The malehcent rule %
spain IN Cuba has got TO end now TO
neither America or anyone else will tr1Is
her promises. so often broken especially
after the teIl-tale correspondence which
resulted in She recall Iof Senor DupuyfD,
Lone"
Nevertheless" added tho foreign az
fetal. America has taken up an unen
viable task. After driving out the Span
tards she will have 70 send troops L
crush the Cubans. who are rebels at hear
and who will not submit tamely 70 an,
torn Of government which viii depriv
them OF their occupation Of lighting.
THE PRIVATEERS.
There IS much interest here IN the nri
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