| Show CUBAN CONDITIONS CODiular Reports Disclose Facts Hot Before Publicly Known SECRETARY OMIT 1 LETTER Ht Secretary UlTrtd the HHTiccs = of but The U s Government bpala Urcllatd WAomsaTON May IBTbo Sterol stale department rchivcs 01 tile wblcb have held the consular reports of mo Cuban war Item the public disclosed today by Ban partially ere lorFiakercfOolu Tbe fade which Senator Forakor announced wlllioul tilting Horn whom they com ore led a decided silt Especially start Hog was tbe letter from Secretary Olniri In I which thli country uttered mediation to Sling and the refusal ol tbatcoantry to accept the prollreJ aid While ote of the consular reports was rend without the name of the au that being disclosed III la elated to bet be-t communication from General Lee which lully not la forth Hit Idea of the conditions lOll exist In Cub The ox no date tract was quoted BB follows blolt glveu I2 cannot understand Ibo truth of the claim that all the provinces ol Ibo IbM ol Ban Bland Bra poOl lied except llano do Cubes because there are more moments under arms at this time thin at the period I first reached tile island some lea months ago and I do not think It a fair Inference to draw dom existing eondltlona that tile war Ii approaching a termination because pursuance I ot an established polloy trie Ineurteute avoid at far ae possible 1Ierlou cogasmonli Tits impossibility impos-sibility ol expelling Spanish troops from tula island by force of arm la well known to them and they Jo not propose to risk tbe live of their men or tile success of their Cause upon one or more pitched battles I couoludo article that the war will drog tta 81lbe 10 wry length along ao long as urgenla can dig sustenance from tbe xruuud on one aide or money be ob Island by the other Ni one on lully appreciate the altuatlon without being here In person Ibo number of poor it dlitrtucd starving women children and old men ol all races baa greatly Increased this city within the put low weeks while In other points on tbe Island 1 the suffering baa been proportionately propor-tionately great the letter of Bicretary Olney to Spanish Minister I De Lome umlerdale I ol April 4 18901 the one In which Intervention In-tervention to suggested Ini opening Mr Olney I saidt DUIIYS LETTER It might be well deemed a derello lion or duty to Ibe government of the tiled States aa well aa a censurable want of otndor Bpaln It 1 I were longer to defer official expression now no-w n as ol the anxlotywltb wblcb Ibe 1resldont regards tbetxlstlng situation In Cuba as of tits earnest desire for the prompt and permanent pacification of the Island Any plan giving reasonable reason-able demands of all concerned will earnestly be promoted by blm by all means which the Uonitltutlou nod laws ol this country place at bla Oil total Ills now nine or ten months since the nature and prospects of the Insurrection Insur-rection were Mat diacusied between ui In explanation ot Its rapid and up to that time quite unopposed growth Rod trogrcEB you called attention to the rainy seaBon which from Juoe too Nortruber render military operations Impracticable Spent wag pouring snob numbers of troops Into Cuba that year theory and opinion their when tbey ciuld be used In an active cam palgn tbe Insurmctlou would be almost 1 al-most Instantly suppressed teemed reasonable and probable In this particular par-ticular you said and sincerely believed be-lieved that the prevent insurrection would offer a most marked contrast to hot I which began In 16t3 which being be-ing feebly encountered With comparatively compara-tively small three prolonged life lor upward of ten yaars It Is Impossible deny that expeditions expedi-tions thus entertained by you In tbe eutmutr and fall I of 1895 and shared not merely by all Spaniards bulb disinterested observers as well nave been completely disappointed Tbe Insurgents eeem foamy to ccmmaod a larger part of tile laland I than ever bofore Their men under I arm estimated a year ago at from I 10000 lo i 50000 are flow conceded to be at IBBI I two or throe times UB runny Their discipline baa been Improved and their supply of modern weapons aid Kjuipmout hill been greatly at lariiea while Ibo mOl fact that they have buld out to this limo baa give i them ouuOdenoe In their own eyes and prestige with the world nt large In short It call hardly be questioned that Ibe Insurrection instead ol being quelldJ la I today more formidable then over and sellers un the second year ol Its existence with decidedly Improved prospects of successful result Further on Mr Olney oils niton lion to Ibe fact that capital forest withdrawing with-drawing train Iho Island frightened away by the utter hopoletaner of tile outlook Why snoula It not be What can n prudent man foreiio as ibo income in-come ol exIstluK conditions except tno complete devastation ol tile Island the enllreanulbllntlon of Us luiuilrle and Ibe abiolutu Impivsrlthmenl nf such Inhabitants at are unwise enough or unfortunate enough not to scssow ably Lsof Iroin II It may well be feared tbat It tbe present Insurrection Is to be shorter duration Ibo Ibo last It will bo Ile cause the end IB I to come sooner ur later througb the Inability of Spoilt to prolong tbe conflict and through her abandonment ol tbe Island to the heterojeuoua combination of elements and ol roots now In arms anatcet her duoh a conclusions MrOlney said would almost Inevitably result In a war 01 racer with the probable establishment estab-lishment a III b lie and black republic repub-lic continues Tbe situation thus described Is ol great Interest to the people ot the United States Thy are Interested In any struggle anywhere for freer political po-litical Institutions I but necessarily In a special measure In a strugglu that Is I raglu a I Most In eight it our shores They are IntereBtoJ as a clvllizod and Christian nation lu a speedy tortillas thou of a civil strife characteruoa by exceptional blUerneH and excesses ou tbo part ol botb combatants They are Interested In the nonInterrup lion of trade I relations wblcb have and eliaulJ continue to the advanlaie of both countries They are Interested In too pieventlon ot that wholesale destruction ol property on tbe Island wblob making no dlorlm Inatlou I between enemies and ucutrali Is utterly destroying Auierlcau Inveit menta On all Ibo grounds and In all these ways the Interest ot tbe Unit cd Stakes In the existing conultluu Cuba yields In extent only to that of Bpaln herself and baa led many good and boot persons to insist tout Intervention Inter-vention t to terminate tbe conflict la the Immediate Imperative duty of the United Slates Uosald his purpose wn not at that lime to suggest Intervention but the United States oculd not contemplate wltn complacency any ten 30ars of Cuban Insurrections HIS suggestion looked to finding B way 610 ojoperulo with Spain In the Iinmedlatii pacification ol toe Island on such a plan at leaving Spain bar rights of sovereignty shall yet tenure to the people ot the Island all such rights Anti powers of local selfgo vat 11 went as they can reasonably ask To thai end Ibe United Hates offers and will me bier Kind iffioei at soon lime and lu suet manner as may be deemed 1 moat advisable In closing ha says tbe communlca lion la I prompted by Ibe friendliest of feelings toward Bpalu and the Bpaulsu lieopie and adji iiroallrlbute to the United States any hostile or bidden purposes would be a crave and most lamentable error Tbe United Status has no designs upon Cuba ana no designs against the aov ertlgnly of Bpaln DC LOMES REPLY Ur Foraker read only Ibo following extract from 1I1r De Lowe reply wolch was UatoJ JuDe 4 1880 In brief there 19 no eUecmal way 10 pacify Cuba unless It begins wltb Ibe actual eubmlsllon 01 Iou armed rebels too mother country Jlner points from Mr Oe Lomes I letter I life ue follows Nulwllluodluar this the government men of the United States could by ute ot proper meant contribute greatly great-ly to the pacification of the Island government of his majesty Is I very grateiul too United Wages for prosecuting prose-cuting the unlawful expeditions to Cuba of Some of Il > citizens with more vigor than lu Lao Psal t miter making a Judicial Investigation as lo the adequacy ade-quacy of its laws The real high = 01 the government 01 Washington will undoubtedly suggest 10 II other more 1Tctu1 means or prvenUnl bncloro what h 1 now the case a struggle wbtcn IB going on ao near Its frontier and Which Is proving ao Injurious Us Industry and commerce com-merce a Not justly deplored by your excel eary being prolonged eo excel lively by the powerul assistance wblcn the rebellion rinds In tau terrl tjryol this great republic agalnat the wlaho or All Lunen Who love ordu libil law When the government of the Unite16tttaohillooaobecenvinceI ul our being right and that boot I oinvlctlou shall In tome winner be nqulred lu order that nil those lu Cuba who aro now merely striving W < Be compl eh tile total ruin of the betul < ul I country In which they wr 0 born being theo hopeless ur outside aid anU powerltai I by tuemielve wlll lay down their Strife |
