The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 55, November 25, 1897 / A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls

Vol. 1 November 25, 1897. No. 55
Copyright, 1897, by The Great Round World Publishing Company.
This has been an exciting week for Cuban matters.
We told you that we might expect to hear more from Mr. Taylor's article on Cuba in The North American Review .
We were quite right in our supposition.
The Madrid papers took the matter up indignantly, and it has been the main point of interest during the last few days.
If you remember, we told you that Mr. Taylor said, in his article, that Spain did not seem able to settle the difficult Cuban question, and that in his opinion it was clearly our duty to interfere.
One of the Spanish Senators, Señor Salvani, wrote an angry letter to the Madrid papers, in which he said that when Mr. Taylor was minister to Spain he appeared most anxious to preserve the friendliest relations between the two countries, and that he repeatedly declared that there was no fear that the United States would interfere with Cuba.
On seeing this letter, Mr. Taylor wrote one on his own account to the American papers.
In it he said that his experience had been that the Spanish authorities were unreliable, and according to his way of thinking the only way to put an end to the war, which was costing this country so much from destruction to commerce, was for the Government to take a firm stand with Spain, and insist that if the war wasn't ended by a certain fixed date we would end it for her.
To prove the truth of his assertion that Spain was unreliable, he stated that during the term of his official service in Madrid he had become convinced that Cuba would never yield, but would fight till her last drop of blood had been spilled.