Show renc1IXCAN OPINION I I Clericals Paver STcJIinleys Position I Masses Want Belligerency City of Mexico Dec Mexican i public I I pub-lic opinion regarding President McKin j leys utterances on the Cuba j question I is that they will greatly strengthen the Sagasta government and enable it to I win friends in Spain for its reform policy I pol-icy in the island The clerical party naturally regards the attitude of the I president as wise and prudent but the masses who favor Cuba would have I liked to belligerency accorded the insurgents as such a course would I have led eventually to similar action in Latin America Resident Cubans are I opposed to autonomy in Cuba and assert I as-sert that the fight will go on and that the autonomists in the island arc a I feeble minority They utterly distrust the promises of Spain I The Mexican Herald says it was for j I tunate for the American colonies in the I 1 revolt against Great Britain that the i French king did not take the same i view of their belligerency as1 does the I president of the United States to the Cuban patriots cause I ENGLISH OPINION I I I McKinley Bsvissd a Specious Pra tent Per Gaining Time London Dec 7The Daily Telegraph f 1 i Tele-graph commenting editorially on i 1 President McKinleys message this I i mormning says > I It used to be Americas proud boast that she had no foreign policy Jung V ing from President McKinieys nu < + sage the new world is no more five from the burdens of diplomatic negotiations nego-tiations than the old In a document of portentous length mostly intended for Spanish consumption President McKinley has devised a specious pretext for gaining time It contains passages that will I certainly wound Spains national susceptibilities sus-ceptibilities The whole tone though meant to be conciliatory savors too much of the magistrate availing hiri self of the first offenders act to lu very acceptable at Madrid Spain may not be so thickskinned as we are to these delicate usages of Americas dip lomatic courtesy Moreover there are serious dangers of revolution in Spain and the indiscreet indis-creet adjectives President McKinly applied to General Weylers policy will not lessen the latters popularity Much depends upon the attitude of I congress If as our correspondent thinks the jingos acquiesce in the decision de-cision of the executive and give the Spaniards a chance all may yet be well but recent experience d6es not make us oversanguine The Daily Mail says it is very seats factory that President McKinley coms out so strongly against the jingos The Daily Chronicle describes the message as weak and colorless compared com-pared with the vigorous handling of public questions to which Mr Cleve land accustomed us It says The explanation of this is simple Mr Cleveland was in front of congress McKinley Is behind it The presidents comments on the currency issue art positively childlike in their simplicity The Times says Its tone of patronizing pat-ronizing tolerance will make the message mes-sage not wholly agreeable to Spain 1 Probably the president calculates that if he can satisfy the jingos for a time with eloquent denunciations and warn ings he will find it easier to pursue a moderate policy Regarding his currency proposals it seems too probable that Mr McKinley still clings to the notion that somt thing may be done for silver So Ion as he follows that will o the wisp h can hardly be expected to attempt any thoroughgoing reform of the currency cur-rency |