Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-08-16
This Is the View Taken That Viii Be the Outcome of the
 Final Terms of Peace.
NEWSPAPER COMMENT
 ALMOST IN ACCORD.
Nearly all Admit That Spain's Colo. nial Possessions Are Gone and the Country Reduced to
 Third Rate Power.

Madrid, Aug. 16.-The governors gen. eral of Cuba and Porto Rico have ac. knowledged the receipt of the news of the suspension of hostilities between the United States and Spain and announced the carrying out of the orders
 An order has been issued by the cap. tain general of Madrid suspending the publication of the Republican newspa- per El Pais.
 The city is patroled by police, but per- feet tranquility prevails.
 The publication of the protocol pro. duced keen disappointment so far as it refers to the Philippines, where it had been hoped Spain would preserve her sovereignty intact. Clause of the pro- tocol dispels this delusion.
 Echoing public feeling the independ- ent and opposing papers bitterly criticise the clause as affording pretext for cur tailing Spanish sovereignty in an archi- pelago where control or interference of a foreign power would make the natives ungovernable.
 A decree has been issued granting the troops three months furlough.
 The minister of war, General Coareo, has issued 8 circular fixing rules for the disbandment of the forces returning from the West Indies, who will hand oyer thSu arms and war stores on land ing at the ports of vego, Corruna and Santendeg.
 The meeting of Saturday of the cabi- net council was devoted chiefly to the consideration of means fer restoring commercial, postal and telegraph com munication with the colonies.
 The comments of the press are verti- able funeral hymn op the destruction of the Spanish colonial empire. Some days ago the desire for peace made the people close their eyes to the price, but now upon reading the protocol, they realize that the cost is the loss of that empire which Spain had conquered with so much glory and that Spain now falls to the second rank among nations. The public mind is stunned and there is gen. eral mourning.
 El Pais prints the text of the protocol signed by the United States and Spain with mourning borders and said: "Spain without colonies is reduced to the role; of third rate power.
 Fl Imparcial says:
 'peace will not bring to Spain even the rest she so much needs after three years and a half of war.
 El National says bitterly:
 '1f Spain had at least been vanqnished only after furious and heroic struggle she could resign herself. Peace with the United States will only be 8 mo- mentary respite from our misfortune.
 El Liberal says the article in the pro tocol relating to the Philippines does not not indicate that anything good for Spain will be fixed upon, and the ques- ton will not be settled favorably for her
 El Globo (ministerial) pines for peace between Spain and the United States, and says the communications on eastern questions which Day and Cambon have signed begins the first chapter in new history of Europe.
 Fl Tiempo, (Ce aservatiye) says:
 "Peace is an accomplished fact. The bitterness of defeat does not prevent us from seeing with satisfaction the end of the war"
 Fl Epoca says:
 'sThe peace is the saddest imposed since the treaty of Utgetcht," and ex- presses doubt Eff 6 government which has allowed itself to be dragged into a war will acquit itself we'll by negoitat- ing peace.
 El Heraldo wants to know how Amer ica proposes to make t6e Cuban and Philippine insurgents submit to sus- pension of hossilities and keep them in lash until the evacuation of the islands hv fhe Sna uiarda ia comnIafad