Evening journal., 1898-11-23
SPAIN WILL PROTEST
VIII Accept Our Terms With
Bad Grace.
WON'T TAKE THE TWENTY MILLIONS
spanish eride ana Montero Rios
Fear of Queering Himself May
Lose Spakn's Government
"a Good stake.

IA Good stake.
PARIS. Nov. 2s.-The Spanish peace
commissioners have telegraphed tc
Madrid the substance OF the Unitec
States memorandum presented Mon
day and are discussing It among them.
selves. A Spanish commissioner az
firms that he and his colleagues do not
know what to do regarding the Ameri-
can offer
There is a difference OF opinion among
unofficial people near the commissions
But the prediction is made that Spain
rill decline the American offer OF
money. that she will refuse to cede the
Philippines and will say 10 the United
States:
you may take the archipelago be-
cause you have the power to do so. Al
you advance we will retire, protesting
against greedy aggression. We Will
faithfully carry out our protocol pledges
and leave Cuba and Porto Rico in yOuf
hands. You came here to engage in
discussion under the terms Of the proto-
col. but you evidently meant when
drawing up that document to provide
conference in which. though we differ
man 10 man. you proposed TO announce
at the proper time what you will do,
whether we agree 10 II or object. such
an attitude rohs the conference of
negotiative character and sets up the
United States as a dominant power
whose first purpose Is to listen, but
whose ultimate determination is to dc
its own Will"
As q matter OF fact, Senior MonterC
Rios Is reported to have used virtually
such language and arguments as the
foregoing.
He said more even. indicating a high
degree Of evaporation at the Ameri-
can offer Of S2OOoOOO0. His manner nc
less than his words, betrayed his re-
pugnance.
His display Of feeling and utterance,
however, are not wholly approved by
his Spanish colleagues, who did not
hesitate to say as much after Mondays
session.
Utterances later by n Spanlard OF inn
portance, whose name Is withheld for
the present, indicate another line Of ac-
tlon-a treaty cession 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 10 continue the
war. We do not want 20 continue IT, and
we cannot You serve us with an ulti-
matum. We submit to your power, Pre-
pare your treaty, and when you want
us TO sign we viii sign. We must bend
TO physical force.
You have the Antilles, and you will
possess the Philippines as a conquest
from a helpless people. We yield. but
we decline 500 100000 for property On
which our valuation was not asked not
respected. You have your will. We
trust you win not continue the wal
upon our helplessness because, forsooth,
we decline your S2OO0O,000. Surely this
waver by us OF your money will not
provoke further use OF arms against
Spain.
We sign. we cede, we are dumb. II
Is finished, and we may be permitted 10
retain the privilege OF assuring our peo-
pie and our national creditors that we
at least have not stolen and resold ter
ritory we had pawned.'
Should Spain cede by treaty. or. on
the other hand. should she refuse and
break off the negotiations here, her pro-
tests will embody some such declara-
ton as this.
AS against such sentiments it is ar
gued that the business in hand is work
for grown men. that II would DE
childish folly to refuse $200O0,000 and
that the Spanish government could not
justify such a refusal before the Span
ish people or the public creditors OF
Spain-a deliberate throwing away of
S2O.OOoOoO in addition to the loss of the
Philippines.