Show I I NOT SETTLED The affair of the Caroline Islands does I not seem to be settled yet while the latest dispatches indicate that Germany is more resolute than over in the assertion asser-tion of her claim to the islands If Ger I many still persists in asserting her claim and Spain still refuses to accede to Germanys i Ger-manys demands it will be difficult to I forecast what the result will be That Spain is no match for Germany is plain to all although upon the sea Spain is not so inferior to Germany as she would be upon the land If the relation between the two countries I became so strained as to lead to a rupture i i what the consequences to Spain will be no one can tell Spain during the whole summer has been scourged by cholera to i such an extent that her population has been decreased nearly a quarter of a million mil-lion through deaths resulting from cholera Such a thing must necessarily dampen 1 the ardor of her citizens and cause them > to feel that already the heavy hand I j of woe has been laid upon them I I Spain is also torn by numerous political parties and near Barcelona and Valencia and Saragossa the Carlists are still strong and hope still I lives within thtfir breasts And it in from I the quarter of Spain where these cities arc i situated that the sturdiest and most war j like of the Spaniards come Alfonso sits t i upon the throne more by 1 Miflerance than I anything else For Spain to go to war with any country in Europe would 1x5 for Spain to invite revolution to como 1 I among her people Perhaps this would not be so if she could carry a foreign war to a successful issue but this is impossible im-possible The condition of Germany is the very reverse of that of Spain She is strong united and recently iriinupant She is young and ambitious and her march is forward She is greater today I than ever before and while she is justly proud of her past her greatest glory is i not there but before her Not so with I Spain her glory is of the past her pride iiiTiIIT t 4 isof yore Ferdinand and Isabella Charles and Phillip are some centuries dead and since their death Spain and her greatness have been dying Such is I the relative positions of these two nations na-tions Already the London press regard I the Caroline Islands German property if the Daily News may be taken as voicing its sentiment Englandevcr mindful of the good things of the earth will claim equal rights with Germany in the Carolines basing her claims upon her rejection of Spains claim to these islands in 1875 England is desirous that the dispute between be-tween Germany and Spain concerning I the Caroline Islands may be justly and equitably settled and upon the grounds of morality provided England comes in for the lions share But if England gets the major portion of the Carolines she will not do so without paying for them she will give a Bible in exchange for them ifMax ORell may believed |