Show PEACE commission SCANDAL said to be giving inside information to stock jobbers new york oct a james creelman cables the journal from paris as follows it Is possible that the scandal about the mismanagement ot our army dur ing the war may be succeeded by a greater scandal about the negotiations tor peace in paris already a vast conspiracy or series ot conspiracies have been hatched in the bosom ot this elaborately contrived mystery not only Is the american public to be kept in utter ignorance of what the united states will propose to spain as a basis of peace in order that the pending congressional elections may not be affected but a few choice spirits have apparently been let into the secret of the situation so rigidly guarded from the public in consequence a ring has been formed to buy philippine bonds and the market Is being scoured for them powerful friends of both spanish and i american commissions have inside information that the united states would insist upon annexing the whole philippine archipelago and would assume responsibility for the philippine debt although the interest on the bonds might be reduced from 6 per cent to 4 or even 3 per cent I 1 know that communications on the subject of these bonds have been passing between paris and madrid the situation is curiously like that which existed in washington when two senators arranged the sugar schedule of the tariff in secret sessions while their friends made millions in the stock market on the basis of private information I 1 cannot yet ascertain how tar there may be a wall street end to this ugly intrigue but there certainly is a madrid bourse end to it the blackest element to the situation is the masterful craft which is now being employed to defeat the principal object ot the war by suppressing the cuban republic which has gallantly ly fought tor three years in the field or their liberty and annexing the island to the united states this scheme is being pressed by a gigantic combination of spanish capitalists backed by the spanish government and aided by the very americans who tried to prevent the war and sympathized zed with spain in her merciless campaign of murder in cuba spaniards and american accomplices know that annexation to the united states means an enormous and immediate rise in the value of cuban property which would not take place under native rule the scheme is dirty and treacherous in its origin and in its purposes I 1 draw the veil aside thus far in order that the american people may understand the kind of rascality which is to be attempted under cover of mr days carefully thought out scheme of secrecy |