Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1898 — NONE WILL ASSIST HER. [ARTICLE]

NONE WILL ASSIST HER.

Spain Must Stand or Knit on Her Own Merits. Dispatches from all the hVVopean capitals show that attention is Centered on America's preparation for t ;ir, which most people believe to be iuuuU*>nt. Some express sympathy for Spain, but none offers to help her, not even Austria, which has been the forcing ground of bro-Span-ish Intervention. She is now displaying n milder mood. A Vienna correspondent deelnres that Austria will probalv - ' recommend Spain to accept the offered Solemnity of 700,000,(XK) francs, with rilmhurseineiit for her war expenses, aivl declare Cuba independent. Then the United States would be obliged to agree to concessions regarding the Maine. Whisky la always a fool; so Is love.