| Show WORK OF THE PEACE COX COM missioners NERS it looks as if spain at the outset had diplomatic advantage over the ed a states by having secured paris the pla place ee of meeting of the p peace bace boners public sympathy in undoubtedly with spain in is Jice present crisis and it is hardly con st inerrable X le that the negotiations can be d on in the french capital with influenced to some soma extent by llast being sentiment derne berne or OP pre prevalent alent would have been more sult auit bockh olm M the purpose than paris the far on is made however and the Sees sity ty of having representatives in sue touch ouch with the american people id resolved to carry out the na nations tiona than if the commie urgent bl 1 Is more were to meet on more neutral OP there will be und from now on IS ot of diplomacy and this country wt emerge from that with victories riesa signal than those won on the of carnage on sea aea and land it gaea s ane e that the world stands a mazed amazed the sudden development of clity aery ry and efficiency of the citizens of country in the fac face of the foe an bally ly striking picture of american presented to the jomacy ley must be 14 in order 16 render the triumph ete r sagasta is credited with the aier have at least yak that the spaniards isolation I 1 and that is the knowl that in cuba and the philippines have bequeathed to the united almost insurmountable difficult aich for many years th they ey the plaids plards ards can render still more form le should it be their policy to do this is I 1 significant it is perfect tie g that the difficulties confronting s country after the war are great dogem is to maintain order and firm government tn in cuba bash fib a as to the philippines it will evolve devolve upon the united states to ant a reign of anarchy at least iome e time and aad this MIS must be done the te aid of troops who as expert h taught us are subject to by deadly fevers unless pre uffit lit is taken to preserve their lives reao the outset spain should be eted from rendering these biffl I 1 more formidable by main agents of the government for purpose of stirring up rebel fomenting strife for that 1 is evidently the policy indicated by sagasta as a future possibility the peace commissioners need to be wide awake on this point then there will undoubtedly be a strenuous effort made by the spanish representatives to induce our government to take the for all or part of the so called cuban debt this should be firmly declined the fact is that this debt was not contracted by cuba but by and was incurred chiefly for the purpose of at holding the cubans tn in bondage and no small part of the he money obtained was actually stolen by the administrators of cuban affairs why should either cuba or the united states undertake to pay that money not long ago cuban patriots offered to pay a reasonable part of that debt as a price of their liberty but the offer was declined since then spaniards have devastated va stated the island and decimated its ita population rendering it almost impossible for the people to discharge spanish financial obligations in addition to restoring their country to prosperity there would be no justice in saddling any part of that debt on cuba another matter of importance to this country is that the fhe terms of peace as finally agreed upon should provide for some approximately adequate compensation pensa ti tion on for the cost of the war A demand for the cession of the philippines and the ladrone islands in addition to porto rico would be very modest especially since spain as far as can be seen will never again be in a posit position lon to exercise sovereignty over those distant possessions it will take time before these and various other matters are finally settled and their importance is such that our peace commissioners must be the ablest statesmen of the country |
