People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1896 — HAS NO FEAR OF WAR. [ARTICLE]

HAS NO FEAR OF WAR.

MORET THINKS DELAY WILL OBVIATE CHANCB OF STRIFE. Ex-Minuter of Foreign Affairs for Spain Takas an OptlmUtie View of the Spanish-American Difficulties Other Foreign News Madrid, Spain, cable: v Senor Moret, formerly liberal minister of foreign affaire, said today: “I don’t believe now that the Competitor case is likely to lead to an unpleasant tension in the relations of the United States, as months must elapse before a new trial can be had. The American government raised its objections under the treaty of 1795, made when we still possessed Florida, and which ought to have been formally abrogated, since it hardly applies to our insular position in Cuba. America invokes the protocol of 1877 also, which our parliament never ratified, so that I ignored its existence, though I held office several times as minister of state. This protocol is an absolute contradiction with our civil and military codes. I doubt if our tribunals in the peninsula could recoznize it. The incident might have been avoided In several ways—first, by hanging the pirates at the yard-arm, as all other nations have done. This could be done by international law if the execution were done on the spot by summary court-martial on deck, the pirate being caught in flagrante delictu. Secondly, by sending the case to an ordinary court-martial with the assistance of counsel and the right of appeal to the Spanish supreme courts, in which case the American government itself signified officially that it would not object to the application of the laws of Spain to foreign citizens. “Such incidents are regrettable chiefly because they give Americans a pretext to interfere, and our anti-monar-chical opposition to create agitation. “I believe President Cleveland has (suite justified the confidence we have shown in his serious character, sense of justice, and friendly disposition. He has to act cautiously and warily in or-

der not to awaken American popular feeling. “I consider the declarations made in the royal speech yesterday important, as I must sincere, and that he means to carry out some day the reform policy he announces when he asks parliament for full powers, and says the reforms voted in 1895 are no longer sufficient to please the colonial parties or to meet the new requirements of the situation. I consider the royal speech chiefly calculated to produce a good effect abroad and in America and Cuba, and that Canovas must intend to grant local councils to both islands with legislative autonomy, otherwise his promises of administrative and economic autonomy would be meaningless.” The ministerial press has so clearly expressed this novel aspect of the affair and has so plainly insisted upon the friendly way in which the American government insisted on the execution of the treaties, without challenging'the right of Spain to chastise foreign offenders by her ordinary courts of justice, that the excitement has subsided despite the efforts of the jingo press. London, May 13.—The Daily Courier Tuesday confirms the report that Dr. jameson’fe rMd into the Transvaal failed because Cecil Rhodes wished the reformers td revolt under the union jack, while the latter ineistod upon the Transvaal flag. . It also appears to bfe confirmed that all arrangements were ififcde to proclaim Charles Leonard president and John Hays Hammond state’s attorney, but they refused to alter their plans,

and consequently left Dr. Jameson in the lurch. Constantinople, May 13. —Mr. Wheeler, the missionary, and family, and the Gates fagaily, consisting altogether of nine persons, have left Kharpoot, Armenia, on their way to America. Among the missionaries of the American board at Kharpoot are the Rev. C. Frank Gates and Mrs. Mary E. Gates, of Chicago. Presumably these are the ones referred to. '