| Show PEACE SLOWLY COMING ui ithe negotiations of the peace commissioners loners ners at paris are proceeding lowly aly the discussions have not yet vered the first article of the protocol daring that spain agrees to relin hall all claim of sovereignty over and lt ae e to cuba the question of the ilan debt is the bone of contention ate debt amounts to about abe spaniards want to know who is tag to assume the sovereignty over tea in order to be able to saddle this bt or martof part of it on an somebody they e that there can be no interregnum h that therefore sovereignty over island cannot be relinquished until re e Is somebody to hand it over to ie reply to our commissioners commissi that a question of sovereignty will be de led d by those concerned in the matter soon own as spain has withdrawn her ces does not satisfy the represents wot of spain t would be unjust to blame these Ert lemen for endeavoring to obtain the t possible terms for their country ough hough their argumentation may be ak and wearisome still they must bound to respect the terms of the tee e protocol by these terms spain ply agrees to leave her west indian r sessions les unconditionally the in edness is her own affair the rican people do not want it and cubans cannot in justice be reed d to pay it let spain leave a as she found it the property of inhabitants that will settle all tons of sovereignty and interred then the united states gov ent will see to it that peace deace find and aly ly conditions are established in ance with the declaration of coni 0 previous to the war the negotiations will pro more satisfactorily as soon boon as first article of the protocol has been posed sed of by that time rita tives will understand that PAme americans ricans are no oriental ou e with whom they can drive a gain n by persistently refusing to ac the terms first offered they will e learnt that american statesman t is conducted on the basis of an est statement of the price of peace en they realize this they must also ize ze that nothing Is gained by un ary delay they will under ud that our commissioners did not as paris to play a game of diploma but to arrange in a businesslike business like ler er for a treaty of peace |
