People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1896 — GERMANY INTERESTED. [ARTICLE]

GERMANY INTERESTED.

Fru** and FubUe Imu to Think Thk Con airy I* Rose k lug Out. Berlin, March 3.—The Cuban resolution is coupled in official circles here with President Cleveland’s Venezuelan message in the public mind, and there seems to be a deep-seated conviction 10 the European mind that these incidents mark a determination on the part of the United States government to depart from its time-hon-ored course of non-intervention in European affairs. The American action on the Cuban question is therefore regarded as an event of the firet lm-‘ portance to the European world. More or less speculation is given to the manner in which the United States expects to reap profit by intervening in Cuba, and much of the argument on the question proceeds on the presumption that it is sought to take Cuba from Spain for the purpose of adding it to the United States. It is generally admitted that as a belligerent force Spain would be no match for the United States In the event of hostilities arising out of the dispute. It is not believed here that Spain will brook any Interference with her course in Cuba, such as Is contemplated by the concurrent resolution qf the senate, and the opinion is generally held by well-informed politicians in the reichstag and in government circles that the Spanish government will find an ally against the United States in Europe should she find herself compelled to fight against the United States. There is great reserve displayed In government circles in expressing any opinion on the subject, as was to be expected. At the foreign office, however, it was said that grave fears were entertained there that serious international complications would be the outcome of the attitude of the United States toward Cuba. It may be said in a general way that everywhere astonishment was expressed at the turn taken by American policy.