. The literary digest. sibility of what may hap-pen there, and they must cast the responsibility upon the Cubans,whom they believe to be so immaculate. Until then we will not be able to see clearly, and I consider itto be a loss of time and an advance by the wrong road—the send-ing of emissaries to the rebel field, the negotiating with theautonomists not yet declared to be legally constituted, and thediscovery of the intentions and purpose of this Government. Theexiles will return one by one, and. when they return, will come walking into the sheepfold, and the chiefs will gradually
. The literary digest. sibility of what may hap-pen there, and they must cast the responsibility upon the Cubans,whom they believe to be so immaculate. Until then we will not be able to see clearly, and I consider itto be a loss of time and an advance by the wrong road—the send-ing of emissaries to the rebel field, the negotiating with theautonomists not yet declared to be legally constituted, and thediscovery of the intentions and purpose of this Government. Theexiles will return one by one, and. when they return, will come walking into the sheepfold, and the chiefs will gradually of these had the courage to leave en masse, and they willnot have the courage thus to return. The message has undeceived the insurgents, who expectedsomething else, and has paralyzed the action of Congress, but Iconsider it bad. Besides the natural and inevitable coarseness \^groseria\ withwhich he repeats all that the press and public opinion of Spainhas said of Weyler, it shows once more what McKinley is : weak. SENOK tNKlQUE DUPUY DE LOME, Ex-Minister of Spain to the United States. and catering to the rabble, and, besides, a low politician, whodesires to leave a door open to me and to stand well with thejingoes of his party. Nevertheless, as a matter of fact, it will only depend on our-selves whether he will prove bad and adverse to us. I agree en-tirely with you; without a military success nothing will be ac-complished there, and without military and political success thereis here always danger that the insurgents will be encouraged, ifnot by the Government, at least by part of the public opinion. I do not believe you pay enough attention to the role of Eng-land. Nearly all that newspaper catiaille which swarms in yourhotel are English, and at the same time that they are correspond-ents of The Journal, they are also correspondents of the bestnewspapers and reviews of London. Thus it has been since thebeginning. To my mind the only object of England is that theAmerican
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