The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-11-25
T) Play FOR SYMPATHY
Spain May Decline to Accept
Cash.
EPANIARDS ARE NOT UNANIMOUS

Members of the Com ia is.i"n A"ai">, i
Sucl, Argument 1t Is Advanced That
business In Hand Il Not Chil.i'- Play
and Government Would Not S,,stninl.
PARIS, Nov. 23-There is &. u:ifer-
ence OF opinion amOug official peope
near The peace commissions, but the pre-
dictioh is mad that Spain Will decline
the American offer of money, that she
wal refuse to CT de the Philippines, aud
will say to the United States: "You !
may take the archipelago because You
have the power to do so. AS you adj
vance, we shall retreat, protesting
against greedy aggre ssiun. We viii
faithfully carry out our part of the
pledges and leave Cuba and Porto Rico
in your hands. You came here to en-
gage III a discussion under the
terms of tie protocol, but you evidently
meant III drawing up that document to
provide conference in which, though
we differ, man to man, you proposed to
announce at the proper time VIII t you
will 90 whether we agree to it or object.
Such all attitude robs the conference of
a negotiative character and sets up the
United States as dominant power,
whose first purpose is to listen, but
whose ultimate determination is to do
its own will"
His display of feeling and utterances,
however, are not wholly approved by
his Spanish colleagues, who did not hes
itate to say as much after yesterdays
session.
Utte,ances later, by Spaniard Of
Importance, whose name is withheld
for the present, Indicate another line Of
action, a treaty cessiou OF the Philip.
pines.
''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 and we
cannot. You serve US with an ultima
tum. We must submit to your power.
Prepare your treaty and when you want
US to sign we will gn. We e'must bend
to physical power
"You have the Antilles and you will
possess the Philippines rs a conquest
from a helple' S people. We yield, but
we decline $2O,O0O,O00 for property on
which our valuation was not asked nor
respected. You have your will We
trust you will not continue the war
upon our helplessness, because forsooCh,
we decline your $20,OOO,O0Cs. {. Surely
not provoke a further use OF arms
against Spain.
"We sign, we cede, we are dumb. It
is finished and we may be permit ted to
retain the privilege Of assuring our peo-
pie and our national creditors that we
at least have not stolen and resold ter
rltory we had pawned."
Should Spain cede by treaty or, on
the othey hand, should she refuse and
break of negotiations here, her protests
will embody some such declaration as
this.
As against such sentiment, it is ar
gued that the business in hand is work
for grown men, and that it would be
childish folly to refuse $20,O00.000 and
that the Spanish government could not
justify such refusal before the Spanish
people, or the pablo creditors Of Spain,
deliberate throwing away of $40, ,000,;
600, in addition to the loss of the Phil
ippines.
1t is felt that the Spanish government
must now answer the American ulti-
matun,atum, but as it is not likely that
the answer of Madrid will arrive today
in time for the commissioners to formu-
late their reply to the Americans by the
afternoon. 1t is probable that the joint
meeting will be deferred to later day
in the week.