Show THE PEACE commission there axe are signs which seem to be trustworthy that many if not most of the spanish statesmen are taking the proper view of the situation and intend in a manly honest way to make the most of if not actually to profit by the overwhelming misfortunes which have overtaken their country this is as gratifying to the great mass of the american people asit as lt must if properly worked out eventually be to the spanish themselves in a recent interview with a new york world correspondent at madrid senor moret expressed the opinion that the conditions of peace were not likely to provoke much opposition from spain in her present weary disgusted disillusioned frame of mind it sounds very much like one who was disposed to a condition of mind known as drooping yet the conclusion reached is gratifying enough to dissipate somewhat the sadness of tone in which it is expressed our new york thinks it a most significant sentence in being what the officials at washington justly regard as a valuable statement of spanish views showing that senor moret who will probably sit on the peace commission is in the proper frame of mind for truly patriotic service at paris power of resistance Is gone she cannot haggle over our terms of peace it to is thereupon claimed that no one remark that there are many substantial reasons for believing that the settlement of the cuban debt Is likely to get ahe a hearing axing even with the american government senor moret may be right in saying that the negotiations tiati ons will last for weeks but the exchange thinks it pretty safe to say that not many minutes will be wasted by spain in trying to convince us ua that we ought to pay her for provoking us to war by oppressing and robbing the cubans speculations as to what will or will not be done by the peace deac co commission are of course premature and in great measure so much guessing in the dark each party will undoubtedly contend tor for every point of vantage which appears as a ground of controversy and such will be numerous the greater and primary questions are already settled beyond recall such matters as the cession of porto rico one of the ladrones padrones La drones and the occupation of manila fi figuring curing only in the most nominal manner I 1 as aa so many things accomplished but there are likely to be a thousand and one matters not at present prominent if even thought of that will arise in that department of the commissions labor relating to cuban evacuation and subsequent management and each of these will have separate treatment and disposition so also as to the philippines and yet it if the spirit of senor benor morets utterances first above quoted shall obtain throughout there should be but little time spent upon them or any of them let spain remember at each and every point that she Is utterly crushed and is having a voice in the arrangement of affairs relating to herself solely through the generosity and forbearance of the greatest nation in the world and it Is almost a certainty that she will then receive more than if she persists in untenable demands and irritating protestations tat ions |