The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-08-29

HAVANA, Aug. 2S.-Some recent
editorials in the Havana papers throw
interesting side lights on the situation.
La Union Constitutional said the other
day:
that within the last three months difficult
ties have been steadily arising between
the Americans and the insurgents here
and in the Philippines. News received or
late from different sources indicates that
these differences exist and will almost in
evitably terminate in q rupture For IN
arrived from ManZanillo assert that the
rebels and Americans there used to fire
at each other daily from their respective
camps.
SPANS hatred toward her common enc
mics was for long time of equal grade;
The different methods however, employed
by the Americans had naturally had the
result of making Spain's hostility less to-
ward them than toward the Cuban rebels.
The Americans ought, indeed, to be
ashamed of their allies, for they came TO
Cuba ostensibly to aid the oppressed and
to secure them justice.
La Lucia, discussing the duty Of
the Madrid Government, stated its
view in this wise:
Spain's sovereignty has not been repre-
scented in Cuba by her land and sea forces
other factors and interests, which are
really the ones from which she has de-
rived her strength and to which her at.
tention has been primarily due. The first
obligation resting upon her In treating Tor
peace is to protect the. great wealth OF
those Spaniards and pro-Spanish natives
in Cuba who have been the real element
of resistance against everything contrary
to the integrity of Spanish territory. The
honor Of the army must, OF course, be
saved; but there are also the concerns Of
those, now representing at least SO per
cent of Cuba's wealth, who, through all
the changing events, have continued loyal
70 nd still pnOtipna lnVdl Snain'S
Government must bear in mind that none
of the Spanish colonies has had Span
ish population as large as Cuba's or so
many natives who have been faithful to
Spain. In the Spanish colonies of former
days-those that are now republics and
that were necessarily abandoned by her
because of the efforts of the foreigner to
conquer the peninsula itself-there was
nothing Spanish, either in numbers or in
wealth. to compare with ", what ats Is spanish a
Therefore 1t follows that the Government,
in feeling about for solution of the pres
ent problem, ought to try to abide by,
the great interests created in Cuba by the
Spanish family.
Ell Diario de la Marine, reproducing
the editorial in FL Impartial, of Ma
drid, entitled 1.-THE World for the
Americans" which that paper pub
lished about the time war was de-
clared, says:
Inc monroe QOcITlne mas Dceil' IlIllueuSS-
~ extended among the Americans. They
feel strong enough, perhaps, to change
themselves from gold miners into con-
querors 1t is so handsome for these bar
barians Of civilization to cry out, The
world for the Americans" To-day 1t is
against Spain that they apply the prin-
cip1e. Tomorrow 1t will be any other
European nation. There will always be
chance to test their pretensions. The
American invasion, so terrifying and as
founding. can only be checked by Euro
pean patriotism. But, alas, this patriot
Ism is coming to an end; for It has seen
Spain unjustly trampled down In the
name of humanity.
La Union Constitutional, bitterly pro-
testing against reports that peace Is to
be concluded only after great territorial
sacrifices by Spain. says:
In the battlefield or In the lesson of a
peace treaty, in war and peace alike, let
US always be the same-genuine Span
iards. If for the interest of our race and
for rights sake, it becomes necessary, let
us sacrifice everything to defend Spain s
honor until the last Spaniard has given
his life at the foot of the flag that waves
over FL MORO. Thus we shall show that
we are willing to do our duty. Thus shall
we render great service to Europe. If
the old world is to be made subordinate
to the new: IL the citizens of the new
world are to impose their ambitions upon
the convenience of the civilized nations
! of the old world; and If the old world has
! forgotten its most important interests
and Spain is to be abandoned in this tt
strength alone and with the sacrifice of
her sons; If this is to be our fate, then let
/ the period close in a happy day on which
! Spain shall lend her services to humanity