| Show THE philippines 3 9 it comes tolerably direct chaj t I 1 american peace cOram commissioners isolo e accede to the spaniards demand de a co consent to a money payment I 1 arf of the surrender of group what the amount aunt not stated nor even sug suggested ested in the most general and inam way but it is foreshadowed foreshadower fore shadowed tl sum total will not exceed the a expended by toy spain for ampro i a peaceful character exolus debts contracted by reason ot of ryd red occupancy of the islands i a sum should not be very certainly the spoken fully cover it to say nothing to the dons amounts to M m money their pride would be r having it to say that they group aup A recent issue of the new 1 arranges war account way profit rofle relieved of unconquerable erable expensive cuba that ifie and nd lives relieved of porto I 1 had adver made any anything but eved of the philippines whish I 1 conquered and from which natives were about to drive me t philippines fleet valued at al 2 0 and 1500 men equal to my nor losses of men by disease in those ads s every two years y santiago fleet valued at and men sailors and soldiers ual lial to about one seventh of my mal al annual losses in cuba W suppose that in addition spain put on the profit side of the leagai cash indemnity yen n looking upon such an item of for spain as a concession on our an anomalous one at that it i still be better than to leave that and its european sympathizers something to harp on and throw us for the rest of this generation ies s it would bring what has al become an insufferably long con ersy sy to a close a consummation aly to be wished real peace id d then come as nearly as may be mined by present appearances the elf ference between the cost of staining the present military and U establishment at manila and of the one we could then get along I 1 would of itself soon amount t to whole of the sum paid to spain es s this the customs and other ces es of revenue would steadily be leans of imparting to the invest the characteristic of a profitable lla lation tion |
