The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-29
MAY TERMINATE IN RUPTURE.
DIFFICULTIES .BETWEEN AMERI-
CANS AND INSURGENTS GROWING.

Havana Papers Predict Rupture
observation-disclosures and Ameri-
cans Said to Fire on Each other
Daily at ManzaniIIO-Americ N
Methods Make Spain Less Hostile
Towards Americans Than Toward
the Insurgents-La Lucha Says
Spain's First Obligation should BE
| TO Protect the wealth of Loyal
SpanInrds.
| Correspondence of the Associated Press.
| Havana, Aug. 20.-Scme recent editorials
in the Havana papers throw interesting
side lights on the situation.
La Union Constitutional said the other
day: ut is impossible now to conceal the
fact that within the last three months DIFF
| hculties have been steadily arising be-
| tween the Americans and the insurgents
here and in the Philippines. News re-
| ceived of late from various sources indi-
Gates that these differences exist and will
almost inevitably terminate in a rupture.
For instance. the Spanish officers who
| recently arrived from Manzanillo assert
that the rebels and Americans there used
to fire at each other daily from their re-
spective camps.
SPANS hatred toward her common en-
emies was for long time of equal grade
The different methods, however, employ
ed by the Americans has naturally had
the result of making SPANS hostility less
toward them than toward the Cuban
rebels. The Americans ought, indeed, to
- - oll;a
| to Cuba ostensibly to aid the oppressed
and to secure justice"
La Lucia, discussing the duty of the
| Madrid government, stated its view in this
wise: SPANS sovereignty has not been
represented in Cuba by her land and sea
| forces only. 1t has been represented also
| by other factors and interests, which are
really the ones from which she has de-
rived her strength and to which her at
tention has been primarily due, The first
| obligation resting upon her, in treating
| for peace, is to protect the great wealth
| of those Spaniards and pro-Spanish ma
| tives in Cuba will have been the real ele-
ment of resistance against everything
contrary to the integrity of Spanish terri
| tory.
1.-The honor of the army must, of course,
| be saved but there are also the concerns
| of those now representing at least 50
| per cent. of Cubas wealth, who, through
| all the changing events, have continued
| loyal to Spain and still continue loyal.
SPANS government must bear in mind
| that none of the Spanish colonies has had
| a Spanish population as large as Cuba 5
or so many natives who have been faith
full to Spain. In the Spanish colonies of
| former days-those that are now repub-
| lies and that were necessarily abandoned
| by her because of the efforts of the for
| eigner to conquer the peninsula itself
there was nothing Spanish, either in num-
| bers or in wealth, to compare with what
| is Spanish in numbers and wealth in
Cuba to-day.
Therefore, it follows that the govern
ment in feeling about for a solution OF
| the present problem ought TO try to abide
| by a course that would save, as far as
possible the great interests created IN Cuba
| by the Spanish family"
| La Union Constitutional, bitterly protest
| ing against reports that peace is to be con-
Guided only after great territorial sacri-
| fees by Spain, Gays; In the battlefield or
| in the discussion of a peace treaty. in war
| and in peace alike, let US always be the
same genuine Spaniards. % If for the in
terest of our race and for rights sake 1t
becomes necessary, let us sacrifice every
thing to defend SPANS honor, until the
last Spaniard has given his life at the foot
of the flag that waves over Ell MORO. Thus
we shall show that we are willing to do
our duty. Thus shall we render a great
service to Europe"