Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-07-27
WHAT. sPeIN SHOULD DO
Senator Morgan on the Negotiations for
Peace
An Armfstice Likely to BE Asked
Except.t4 Taken to Mr..
Sherman'a Remark.

| said Senator Morgan to a Star reporter
today, will be to ask for an armistice
! until the United States has stated the terms
upon which It is willing to accept the sur
render of Spain So far as Spain has gone
| now is to ask the President whether he is
willing to have peace. He says he is.
| We'll, upon what terms are you willing to
| have peace y Spain. asks The President
says he has notzeonsidered that sufficiently
to give an answers So it is expected of
course, the President will at some time or
other make an answer to that interrogatory
as, to what terms heswiH- be willing to ac-
cept. : %: 80 -. a ..s...
OF course the next step will be to ask an
armlsttce; until he determines what be Is
willing to do. IL; the President grants that
request II stops military operations where
| they are until he makes proposition to
Spain for settlement
THAT world be very unfortunate situa-
ton, and Lcthink the President will not
give any attention. to, such a proposition If
it should De made to. him. 1t is the duty
of Spain, If; She. wants to make peace, and
that means If she wants to surrender, to
ask tel ms Of thu, United States and state
what she will be. willing to accept. That Is
her Luty. .,s 80 .-.----.-
''l-ahaye no Information as to the opin-
ions of the President on the subject of
the terms that the United States ought to
be willing to accept, but it Is my judg-
ment that Spain, having lost the control
of her colonies first because of her incom-
petenee as a governing power, and, next,
Incompetence to defend or hold them the
United States, ought to accept nothing
from Spain except a full and complete sur
render of the sovereignty of all of these
islands,: from Porto Rico to the Philip
pines. 70 make; "a treaty with Spain to
WHICH Cuba becomes party by being an
agent in the negotiation of the treaty or
being provided, for in the terms of the
treaty itself will lead to embarrassment
and complications in the future.
Ehe government of the United States
intends to treat Cuba properly and accord
ing to the declarations that have been
made publicly and solemnly by the Presi-
uehl ana ny Congress, and neither Cuba
nor spain nor any other power in the
world has any right to prescribe terms
upon which we shall accept sovereignty
OF Cuba from Spain. If sovereignty of the
territory of all these islands is passed to
the United States the world will see that
we have not had any selfish motives in
the part we have taken in the war.
Ca~sefaf the War.
Il notice." aontinned Mr. Morgan, Mr.
Sherman recentiSt1Secretary of State, is
quoted as saying the United States in this
war has been sthe, aggressor That propo-
sition is utterlW5and entirely untenable 1
hope Mr.. Sherman shas. not said that but, IL
he has. l take issue with him upon the
statement. The. United States had very
good cause fofr being the aggressor but
forbore to take the initiative until it was
manifest SPAIN intended to compel us to
fight. az ~, ....
If the war 10 CHA had gone on in the
same way it was being conducted by Wey-
Ter and Blanco and in the same disregard
to all the claims OF humanity, the United
States government would necessarily have
been drawn into it, even if the Maine had
not been destroyer by Spanish malice The
destruction Of the Maine was only the
climax in a series of events which, az a
very early date, would have compelled a
collision between Spain and the United
States. Now IN all of those events no
charge of bad faith or fnhumanity tow ard
Spain has ever been suggested by any Gre.
The record of the United States during the
period of the present revolution in Cuba
has been free from all partiality between
the belligerents,1 except that we have used
all of the powers of She government Of the
United States in good faitn TO restrain the
natural anxiety and Indignation of her own
people aroused by the brutal and iphuman
conduct of the Spanish government.
Not Progressed Far Enough.
1.-THE war has rot Yet progressed to that
stage in which the people of SPAIN or even
the Spaniards of CUta, have realized the
fact that the United States has power to
suppress that government utterly if it
should choose to do So If Spain cannot
see now that her hold upon her colonies In
the East and West Indies is absolutely de-
stroyed it Is difficult to anticipate how
much more Of the hardship of warfare will
have to be visited upon them before they
can BE- brought to a proper sense of their
situation"