Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-11-05
WILL HAVE TO EXACT
ITS DEMANDS BY FORCE
The Administration Does Not Ex-
pect Spain to Sign a
Peace Treaty.
RENEWAL OF The WAR PROBABLE
Spanish Commissioners Expected
to Withdraw From
Paris.
RENEWAL OF The WAR PROBABL
MATTERS WILL BE RUSHED
Dons viii Be Notified That No Moro
Time Is TO BE Wasted aud 1t
Must BE Peace or War
by December 1.

Washington, Nov. 1.-Three impor-
tant facts in connection with peace ne
gotiations at Paris were developed
yesterday. They were:
l.. The American peace commission
ers have decided that an agreement
must he reached by December l or
they would come home.
2. Their demands will include ces-
sion to the United States of the entire
group of the Philippine islands.
3. The Washington administration
does not expect Spain to sign a peace
treaty, but believes that the United
States will have to exact its demands
by force.
A high administration official said
today that a renewal of hostilitics be-
tween Spain and this country was far
from being a remote possibility.
IL believe" said he. that the war
will have to be resumed, and that we
shall have to take what we demand
from Spain by force. | do not believe
that the Spanish commissioners will
sign such a treaty al we are proposing
and / fully expect that they will with
draw from the negotiations and go
back home, protesting against what
they will call the unjust eXaction of
the Americans"
VIII BE Forced TO Fight.
In addition this official said that IL
has become evident that no govern
ment Of Spain could live that would
make a treaty which relinquished Gu
ba without making any provision for
unloading the Cuban debt and which
at the same time deprived Spain of her
colonies of Puerto Rico and the Phil
ippines. The best thing Spain could
have done, he said, was to have accept
ed the last proposition made by the
United States government before hos
~tilities began and granted Cuba her
independence. Spain should never
have gone to war. Sagasta and his
ministers knew just as well as it was
known here what the result OF that
war must be.
Yet, in order to save himself and the
reigning dynasty, he rejected the
American propositions and undertook
an unequal contest. 1t will be the
same way with the Spanish peace
commissioners at Paris. If they sign
a treaty which leaves the Cuban debt
to be borne by Spain, while taking
away the island itself, as well as the
Philippines, Puerto Rico and Guam,
they will never dare to return to
Spain.
viii Appeal TO the Powers.
What SPANS courEe will be then Is,
of course, conjecture. 1t is quite prob
nI1, thnt gha Yrsl n,nln On nnnpn1 IN
the powers to protect her from Amer
lean rapacity. When she finds that
this is useless, Spain will be confront
ed with the alternatives of either re-
Stunning the fight in Cuba or the Phil
ippines or of adopting an attitude of
passive submission to the superior
strength of the United States.
When the commission holds its next
meeting on Monday the Americans ex-
pect to be ready to submit to the
Spanish commission the terms that
the United States will demand with re-
gard to the Philippines. 1t is expect
ed that the Spaniards, unless they at
once adopt the course Of Withdrawing
from the negotiations, will follow the
same plan pursued by them in the con-
sideration of the Cuban debt question.
The Americans will hasten their ne
gotiations as much as possible, and it
there is an attempt OF the part of the
Spaniards to needlessly prolong the
discussion, they will declare their de-
termination, which will practically be
an ultimatum, to have a complete
agreement upon the treaty by Deem
Der /, or the negotiations will be de-
clared Off.