| Show SPANISH PRIDE AND foolishness tho rho rulo rule of spain on this continent was brutal and severe from tho the clr first t ter her first conquests included all this the country w herein jt it was supposed there were rich deposits of gold cold and silver the mines of 0 mexico and ieru were rifled land and t their belr treasures seat scot to spain the exactions of 0 spain by way of taxation were always most alerc tho the treatment of or her hep colonies colons was vas the treatment which a hard heart ed and unsympathetic man rives gives to a suspicious and disobedient child tills this burden and this oppression went on year after ear car for fop more than two centuries ira in the meantime spain believing that she had bad found and possessed a land the treasures ot of which were inexhaustible gave herself up to luxury the industries died in ili her ter own country the wealth aa it was wag received gravitated to certain families the moral disintegration of 0 the country succeeded and with it the oppressions oppress ions of tho the new world wore were increased until colony after colony believing the 10 load ad which wil wa alrey already unbearable would be increased as tile the news necessities or of tho the mother country increased threw olt off the yolie yole and ly by force of aran arms achieved their independence we would think that after that experience per peri lenc ence spain would have bave learned what england learned when ben her ter gra was waa obliged to ledge tile the independence pen dence ot tho united states that Is that men are men no matter where they are that certain inalienable rights attach to human nature and that the more mere title of sovereignty does not carry with it the right to abuso abuse or to oppress a people especially a people of the same blood as the men of the botner country possess hut but spain learned nothing by her misfortunes she still kept her exactions upon cuba and though eliat little island has more than once tried to shake off the yoke every effort lias has been met with the same intolerant tyrannical spirit until now in the late days of the lite nineteenth century that thal people are arc thoroughly abot aroused ased and BO 60 tar far as human judgment ROCS goes they are sure euro tills this time to win yet vet we read that in madrid the authorities or of spain and the press of spain declare that no compromise can be made and tit eliat at all tenders of help from friendly nations to settle tho the difference there must be repudiated and rejected it Is rl a caw came apparently chere the pods goals havo have made mad the people whom they would do destroy stroy in the meantime spain 19 i sending out her or young men to fall by the sword and by the fever in the meantime her people at home are nursing the swee sweet t i recollection collection of how great their country was and reasoning from that they cannot erf set the truth that her greatness haj haa passed away and that she ho has haa sunk almost to the level where the na lions of the world that formerly feared her look upon her ter only with pity and with a contempt for her assumptions brains la Is trying to past pass as a long primer or plea pica statesman with the result that he makes a spectacle of blAi self und and so BO far as late hla influence extends he a perpetual hard blila upon ills own people |
