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Show "FREEMAN'S JOURNAL" ON THE PORTO RICO QUESTION. QUES-TION. New Y'ork, 21. James McMaster, of the Freeman's Journal, which paper pa-per originated the story about the cession of Porto .Rico to Germany, publishes a letter this morning, in the course of which ho says: I hold the transcripta of dispatches on the evidence as I have received them. I do not hold them subiect to the call of Hamilton Fish nor of any one occupying a public place. Had j the people of the United States, as a 'government, had men fitted tor their Iplaces either in the Department of 'Slate at Washington, or at Madrid, j or at Berlin, I would have had no i revelations possible for mc to make. The matter was 'on the cards' a year lao. The overtures of the wretched 'Spanish Junta at Madrid and tho response res-ponse of Admiral Polo are such as I have sUted them to be. I will compromise com-promise no one by revealing my sources of information at present. In a short time, it may be some months, when King Carlos VII will be in Es-rurial Es-rurial and hold Madrid and all the tfpains for their honor, I will perhaps tell who my inforruauta have been.'' a cmXTEK STATEXX.yr. New York, 21. Baron Schlozer, the German Minister at Washington, savs this of the story relative to tho cession of Porto Rico to Germany; "A more monstrous absurdity could not be conceived. I have scarcely patience when 1 think of the mischief the falsehood is designed to create. Mv country has but one ambition, and that is to establish itself on a foundation of lasting peace. Such encroachment, therefore, as is now the subject of newspaper discussion woual directly antagonize the policy of the empire; the policy of wisdom. !'fhc sentiment, the very patriotism of j the people I represent, is hostile to enlarging our domain." |