But the Spanish Government regards the liberty that we have accorded to them in holding their meetings and conventicles and in passing their resolutions or adopting their programmes in behalf of the people of Cuba as an offense that is intolerable to the mind and heart of a Spanish ruler. For that reason they. of course. grow more and more angry toward us continually. and that is the true ground of the opposition of Spain to the United States. Spain would be the best friend to us that we have in the world if whenever a Cuban refugee undertakes to land in one of our ports we should drive him back to the sea and tell him to seek a home elsewhere. But we open our doors to him. he comes in here. and when he gets here he comes. it is true. as an enemy of Spain. but Spain becomes our enemy because we tolerate in our midst somebody who does not happen to like her. That is the situation.