The National tribune., 1903-04-16

prologue of this method of warfare will
end the day that the Colonial Cabinet will
be appointed and it relieves us in the eyes
of this country of q part of the response
bility of what may happen there, and they
must cast the responsibility upon the
Cubans, whom they believe to be immacu-
late.
Until then we will not be able to see
clearly, and l consider it to be loss of
time and an advance by the wrong road,
the sending of emissaries to the rebel field.
the negotiating with the autonomists not
yet declared to be legally constituted, and
the discovery of the intentions and pur-
pose of this Government. The exiles will
return one by one, and when they return.
will come walking into the sheepfold, and
the chiefs will gradually return. Neither
of these had the courage to leave en-
masse, and they will not have the courage
to thus return.
1.-THE message has undeceived the in
surgents, who expected something else,
and has paralyzed the action of Congress,
but l consider it bad.
Besides the natural and inevitable
coarseness with which he repeats all that
the press and public opinion of Spain has
said of Weyler, it shows once more what
Mckinley is; weak and catering to the
rabbie, and, besides, low politician, who
desires to leave a door open to me and to
stand well with the jingoes of his party.
Nevertheless, as matter OF fact, 1t
will only depend on ourselves whether he
will prove bad and adverse to us. L en-
tirely agree with you, without military
success nothing will be accomplished there,
and without military and political success
there is here always danger that the in
surgents will be encouraged, if not by the
Government, at least by part Of the public
opinion.
II do not believe You pay enough at
tentiOn to the role of England. Nearly all
that newspaper canailIe which swarms in
your hotel are English, and at the same
time that they are correspondents of the
Journal, they are also correspondents of
the best newspapers and reviews in Lon
don. Thus it has been since the beginning.
To my mind the only object Of England is
that the Americans should occupy them
selves with us, and leave her in peace.
and if there is Il war, so much the better.
that would further remove what is threat
ening her-although that will never hap
pen.
1T would be most important that you
should agitate the question of commercial
relations, even though it would be only
for effect. and that you should send here
a man of Importance in order that l
might use him to make a propaganda
among the Senators and others in oppOsi-
ton to the Junta and to win over exiles.
There goes Amblarad. l believe he
comes too deeply taken up with little
political matters. and there must be some
thing very great or we shall lose.
''Adela returns your salutation, and we
wish you in the new year to be messen-
ger of peace and take this New Years
present TO poor Spain.
always your attentive friend and serv-
ant. who kisses your hands,
(Signe0
ENRIQUE DUPUY DE LONE"
This letter, in which De LONE was
guilty of the most heinous offense known
to diploma cy-that of traducing the head
of the Government to which he was ac-
credited-was written by him, personally
to Den Jose Canalejas, editor of the Her
aldo of Madrid, and the unofficial agent of
Spain, who came to the United States to
study the situation, and then went to Cuba
as a representative of Spain to treat with
the rebels. 1t was sent to Canalejas in
Havana, in an envelope bearing the coat
of arms of the Spanish Legation and adj
dressed in De Lome's own handwriting.
A postal clerk in Havana, who was in
sympathy with the Cubans, caught the
guessing that its contents might be valu-
able to the Junta, turned it over to the
officials of that body. They copied it and
gave one copy to New York paper and
the original to the State Department in
Washington.
De LONE was at once given his pass
ports by the President, and went immedi-
ately. receiving safe escort by Secret
Service officers to the Canadian line. In
stead of being overwhelmed with shame,
he laughed and treated the matter lightly.
On the eve Of his departure from the
United States the holIowness of the prom
ises of Spain, the mockery of her pre-
tended friendship for Nation that had