The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1898-11-23
SENIOR RIOS EXCITED
Talk of Refusing Our Offer Of
Twenty Million Dollars.
BUT sPAMARDS WILL NOT FIGHT

''You May Take the Archipelago Be-
SO - We VIII Retire Protesting
Against Greedy Aggression"
Paris, Nov. 23.-The Spanish peace
commissioners have sent to Madrid the
substance of the United States memo
randum presented on Monday, and a
Spanish commissioner affirmed yester-
day that he and his colleagues did not
know what to do regarding the Ameri-
can offer. There Is a difference of opin-
ion among unofficial people near the
commissions, but the prediction is made
that Spain will decline the American
offer of money. that she will refuse to
cede the Philippines and will say to
the United States:
You make take the archipelago, be-
cause you have the power to do so. As
you advance we will retire, protest.
ing against greedy aggression. We will
faithfully carry out our protocol
pledges and leave Cuba and Porto
Rico in your hands. You came here
to engage in discussion under the
terms of the protocol, but you evidently
meant when drawing up that document
to provide a conference in which,
though we differ man to man, you pro-
posed to announce at the proper time
what you will do, whether we agree to
Ii or object. Such an attitude robs
the conference of a negotlative char
acter and sets UP the United States
as a dominant power whose first pur-
pose is to listen, but whose ultimate
determination Is to do it's own WILL"
AS a matter of fact Senior Montero
Rios is reported to have used virtually
| such language and arguments as the
| foregoing. He said more, even indicat-
| ing a high degree of evaporation at
| the American offer of $2O,O0O,0O0 His
manner no less than his words, betray-
| ed his repugnance. His display of
feeling and utterances, however, are
not wholly approved by his Spanish
colleagues, who did not hesitate to
say as much after Mondays session.
Utterances later by a Spaniard OF
| Importance, whose name is withheld
for the present, indicate another line
| of action, a treaty cesson of the Phil
ippines.
Suppose" said the speaker in ques-
ton, that Spain says to the United
States, We are exhausted. We have
| no funds with which to continue the
war. We do not want to continue 1t,
and we cannot You serve us with an
ultimatum. We must submit to your
power. Prepare your treaty, and when
| you want us to sign we will sign. We
must bend to physical force. You have
the Antilles and you will possess the
Philippines as a conquest from help.
less people.
"'We yield, but we decline 100000 00t
1T. H..
was not asked nor respected. You hav'
your will. We trust that you will no
continue the war upon our helplessness
because, forsooth. we decline your 500,
100000. Surely this waver by us o!
your money will not provoke a further
use of arms against Spain.
"'We sign, we cede, we are dumb.
is finished, and we may be permitted
to retain the privilege of assuring ou
r people and our national creditors tina
we at least have not stolen and resolC
, territory we had pawned.'
J Should Spain cede by treaty or, on tn
other hand, should she refuse and breal
! off the negotiations here her protest
will embody some such declaration a
this.
3 AS against such sentiments 1t is ar
gued that the business in hand Is worl
for grown men, and that it would b
childish folly to refuse $20, 900, an
that the Spanish government could no
justify such a refusal before the Span
, ish people or the public creditors o
Spain, a deliberate throwing away o
$40, ,OOO, 900 in addition to the loss of tn
Philippines.
Monday night the Spanish commits
S sioners sent the American propositio
4 by a special messenger to Madrid
where it will arrive today. 1t is fel
that the Spanish government must no'
e answer the American ultimatum; bu
y as 1t is not likely that the answer c
Madrid will arrive today in time fo
the commissioners to formulate thei
reply to the Americans, it is probabl
a that the joint meeting will be deferre
to a day later in the week.
" Riotous Hungarian students.
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