The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-03-06
MADRID TALKING WAR
THE COMMENT OF THE JOURNALS
OF THE SPANISH CAPITAL
Government Advised to Strike N
Rude Blow at Revolution with
out DeIay-May Said 10 he the
Time Allowed by United States
for Paclfying the Island.

MADRID, Feb. 23.-Discussing the
rumors of the possibility of war be-
tween the United States and Spain.
the impartial says that the Spanish
government is mot allowing itself to
be hurried by alarmists' statements in
the Madrid and foreign press"
1t quotes a minister who said YES
terday, that the pessimistic views Of
the Spanish papers were but an echo
OF the sensational statements in the
Yankee press"
NOW, more than ever" he is said to
have added, 1--WE are assured that the
Washington cabinet desires and will
do what 1T can to prevent anything oc-
curing to alter the relations existing
| between both governments. The
| american government, especially Mr.
Mckinley. by his energetic action. have
succeeded In postponing to a better oc-
casion the proposals Of few partisans
OF the filibusters, while public opinion
is more and more placing confidence in
| the course adopted by the government,
which is most interested of all in the
successful development of public
affairs
From member of the government
comes the statement that "at all costs
rude blow must be struck at the
rainy season, as otherwise Spain will
| suffer incalculable loss.
Information is to hand from suffi-
ciently official sources. that IL the re-
bell1on is not suppressed by May
America will intervene without the
consent of Spain. In the meantime
the United States will attempt to lull
our government to sleep with friendly
| and courteous phrases, which our gov
ernment receives as evidence of respect
and consideration from those who lose
no occasion of showing that they are
ignorant of what those words mean"
The Liberal says that in Madrid
official circles, it is denied that the
| apparently warlike preparations being
nrade in the United States have the OBJ
| ject attributed to them in certain quar-
| ters. 1t is alleged that these are only
| measures of reform agreed upon long
| ago. The Liberal deals in a sympathe-
| tic spirit with Washington's birthday,
| and halls with approval President Nc
Kinley's speech on that occasion, con-
! Sidering it a rebuff to those who seek
to embroil the United States in war
with SPAIN
Truce to Suspicion.
| 1t then expresses the hope that the
| presidents actions will accord with his
| words. adding: June will tell, but for
! the present, we ought to cry a truce to
| suspicious and animosities, fully war
! ranted by experience in honor of the
! memory of the great man, who. in ad-
dition to laying the foundation of lib
erty for his own people, contributed as
| but few others have done, to the re-
deeming and dignifying of human
| conscience"
| The Pals Revolutionary of late,
falls foul of the suggestions made by
the Naccional for ending the Cuban
! difficulty. These suggestions are:
First the evacuation of the island in
consideration of an indemnity Of 1cOO.-
| 600 as proposed by Gen. Maxine Gomez
Second-The evacuation of the IS and with
out any other indemnity than the prese-va-
tion of the Spanish flag at Havana, not
cent being paid for its hire, a proposal
made in these very terms by Senior Giberga,
and his following.
Third-The continuance of the present
| state of affairs, namely: Galvez and Mono
| toro administering and Blanco and Pando
! fighting.
A simple method commends itself to
| the Pals. 1t points out that no one
| who has eyes can have failed to see
| that the real seat of war is not in Cuba,
| but in the United States. adding
There is the real center Of action of
| the filibusters; thence have come men,
| arms and munitions of war. 1t is the
| United States VINO. by constant threats.
| have succeeded in keeping Spain in a
| position of manifest inferiOrity; il is
| the United States who have spread
| throughout the world, by lies and chic
| anery, the fable of our cruelty, seeking
| thereby to justify acts on their part
which otherwise would be incapable of
| justification. The war we carry on in
| Cuba is good business for the Yankee
| merchants, the small sum they pay for
| keeping it ablaZe being amply remun-
| Grated by the advantages they gain by
| the destruction of Cuban commerce.
Therefore, as we have said before
| the problem cannot be solved by the
| solutions offered by El Nacional. but
there is yet another, and the other is
very clear and simple. Consumption
| cannot be cured by taking pills. The
war in Cuba will only end when we
send an army against the United
States.
In the Carrac dockyard near CadiZ
| every effort is being made to push for
ward the completion of the Princessa
de Asturis and the Buque-Aljibe. 1t is
! hoped the latter, which will have
| displacement of 1000 tons, may be
launched early in July, and that the
Princessa will mount her guns this
| year"
y Blames WeyIer.
Gen. Pin. who arrived recently ut
| Corunna from Cuba, on board the
| Reina Maria Christina, expressed an
| unfayorable opinion as TO the military
! state of affairs on that island and laid
| the blame for it on Gen. Weyler.
Repeating the telegram sent by Pres
| ident Mckinley to Gen. Woodford, in
structing him, through the proper
| channel" to convey his appreciation
of the message of sympathy received
from the queen regent of Spain. the
impartial renders the quoted phrase
''in the customary form" and adds
THE customary form is for the heads
or governors of country to write
these communications themselves"
Reproducing Senior GOWNS sensation
al letter from the Nacional and that
papers demand that he should be re-
moved from the government of Cuba.
the impartial remarks: The copied ex-
rressions of this document, as our
readers will have seen, are too confus-
ed to allow of judgment being passed
on a matter of such gravity"
In its issue of Feb. % the Impartial
reports its Havana correspondent as
sending on this subject the following
message:
The text of Senior GOWNS letter
published in Ell Nacional has been ca
bled from Madrid. Senior GOWN says
that it deals with an apochryphal doc
Ument and severely characteriZes the
authors of the fraud. He adds that
its origin may be sought among the de-
clared enemies of the autonomous rule,
who seek to deprive this rule of its
most important and devoted elements.
These views expressed, as | hear, very
forcibly have been telegraphed by