Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1898 — ACCEPTS OUR TERMS. [ARTICLE]

ACCEPTS OUR TERMS.

SPAIN MAKES AN ABSOLUTE SURRENDER. Cedes Philippines to United States Without Restrictions-Gives Up “to Avoid the Horrors as War “—Shin Group Included—Europe Resents.

Spain has ceded all the Philippines without restrictions to the United States for 920,000,000, doing so at the joint meeting of the peace commissioners in Paris Monday. The acceptance by Spain of thsj terms of the United States was accomplished by a memorandum setting forth that Spain yields only to superior force. This decision was reached as the resiilt of pressure upon the Spanish commission, not so much from Madrid as from the powers. The Americans’ demands included the acquisition of the whole of the Philippine and Sulu groups f.or $20,000,000, and it is also understood the United States will purchase the Caroline group. The question of the debt of Cuba Is left unsettled. The answer of the Spaniards was so short that less than ten minutes was consumed in rendering it into English for the Americans. The Spanish Government utilized the last six days, during which Seuor Montero Rios was conducting correspondence with Judge Day regarding details of the American offer, to sound once more the European chancellories upon the point whether she could rely on any aid toward a limitation of American aggression in case she rejected the American terms. “We received,” said a Spanish delegate, with bitterness, “not only a refusal of any support, but also a plain intimation fibat no power would interfere if we lost thb Carolines, and even the Canaries.” The American commission declined to accede to either of the three alternative propositions made by the Spaniards. President pay of the American commission notified President Bios of the Spanish body, in reply to a request for more time, that the American commission could not modify the demand it had made for a final reply. « The technical work of preparing the treaty and negotiating about other matters named in the American ultimatum will probably occupy .-about a fortnight. Resented by Europe. A Paris eaiTospondent declares there is no denying that the whole European continent will bitterly resent American acquisition of tlie Philippines. This sentiment is not confined to diplomats, but especially in Paris it is opinion constantly heard in the highest I- rendi society. It is known that a high official of the Freneli foreign office said: "The appearance of the Americans in Eastern waters is a disturbing factor to the whole of Europe. Americans, as is well known, lack diplomatic manners and will surely bring constant trouble to all of us.”