The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1898-08-17
SHE WILL BEAR WATCHING.

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having said that the Spanish people
take consolation in the hour of defeat
IN the reflection that they have turned
over to the United States in Cuba and
the Philippines that which is bequest
Of insurmountable difficulties, (which
for many years to come it will be in
our power to render still more formid
able, should it be our policy to do So"
The meaning Of which is not obscure.
He hints that there is left behind a
| Spanish element which will annoy, if
not openly resist, US in whatever we
may do to bring peace and prosperity
to the distracted islands. He counts
upon the rancorous hate for the Yankee
the savage treachery Of the mixed peo-
pies of the Philippines.
| The volunteer element in Cuba he
expects to remain disloyal to the new
order of things. and this element Spain
| is promising to foster and encourage.
Sagasta understands the Spanish char
acter, and is specializing upon it caus-
| ing US no end of trouble His remark
was, however, an evidence of weakness
| in his character, and sounds little like
the talk of profound statesman.
| It will be well to keep one eye upon
Spain and her agents constantly. She
| is not to be trusted. She is notorious
for violating terms Of settlement; as
for breaking promises she has not
peer. There is Senior Moret, also, who
declines to act as one of the Peace
Commissioners because he believes an
agreement by a Peace Commission in
adds: such is the opinion Of the Gov
eminent"
So, then, Spain consents to peace, but
believes the terms thereof will never be
agreed to by the principals. She ex-
poets, then, to enter upon diplomatic
interchange in which she hopes to out
wit US, or SO entangle US that new
basis for covenanting peace will be
necessary. In the meantime, as Sa-
gasta has limited, strife can be stirred
up in the surrendered islands, and the
Interior ends Of the crown be attained,
namely, repossession of the territory.
Spain, as one with half an eye can
see, wants delay, since she has every
thing possible to gain by it, and delay
means to US perplexity, loss and posi-
BILE new outbreaks of insular war. in
the form of revolts at first, and later
involving the two nations.
We repeat, Spain will need to be
watched, and must be tripped in her
designs. If peace settlement comes to
a deadlock in the commissions, we will
have but one thing to do, and that will
be to proceed as II the protocol had
not been signed. Tt presumes set
tlement, If that presumption proves to
be a violent one through the refusal OF
SPANS instructed Commissioners to
come to vote, and the attempt Is
made. as the Record Union" has sew
eral times expressed its belief is the
plan, to drag other Powers into the af-
fair. there will be nothing for it but to
! try once more the persuasive force OF
stones, when tufts of grass fail to bring
the boy out of the apple tree.
| If there is any reopening of diplomat
| ic correspondence due to the instruc-
ton to SPANS Commissioners to refuse
to agree, which we suspect, and with
good reason will be done, we will re-
gret It to the end of time. The one
| thing for America to do is to abide by
the bond of the protocol. If we depart
from that and lay a new base our
| troops abroad may as well make up
their minds to take UP personal resi-
dence in the islands, and to be rein
forced by a good many tens of thou
sands Of our fighting stock still at
| home.