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Show It is not only in her institutions and traditions that Spain is decadent, she Is !oslng her best and most vigorous, intelligent in-telligent population all the time. According Ac-cording to authentic reports, emigration emigra-tion from Spain is Increasing, and the press and governing classes are alarmed When It Is remembered that there are 73,000,000 acres of arable land uncultivated in Spain, the lo9s of thousands thou-sands of work.rs annually Is a serious cause of anxiety. The other day 4000 laborers, mostly young people, embarked em-barked from Valencia f.nd Tarragona for Brazil and Argentina, oOOO are waiting for transportation from Malaga, Mala-ga, and thousands are leaving from Spanish ports on the Atlantic. The hegira of labor Is the iheme of constant con-stant discussion in all the newspapers of Spain. The taxes are' so onerous and the prices of living so advanced that In soma cities :t is Impossible for the ordinary laborers to Bubsls'. |