Show DISCARDING A KUNG KINO are tough in the business TIMES The world depression adds r royalty to the unemployed so far as Spain is concerned and the world looks on with mild interest a athe atthe at atthe the trial of a new experiment The crash of the long tott tottering long ring throne of V V Alfonso XHI XUI marks marS the denouement of a dynasty which has ruled a nation for centuries cen cen- tunes Since the grand old days when Spain V dominated the seas and most of the world V V the curve has been steadily downward until V the royal debacle became complete The transition was slow When overseas dominance was taken from front Spain more than thana thann a n quarter of a century ago the star of the monarchy waned and while the transition has been slow the coming of a republic was V inevitable inevitable It will wUI be many generations before the volatile temperament of the Spaniard will be beI I able to adjust itself to successful self I The legacy left by Spain in Cuba is all an example example cx- cx ex ex- V V ample of the tile lack of understanding of true governmental functioning effective administration administration administration admin admin- and responsibility Alfonso as a monarch was weak when V Spain needed strength at the helm One artifice artl- artl fice followed another in an au effort to stem V VI the tide which seemed certain to engulf the tile V people The dictatorship which collapsed of its own weight spelled doom for the weak monarch The politicians of Spain are drunk with power The people are mad with the prospect prospect prospect pros- pros of playing with a new toy The bourbons bour- bour Z e. e bons are going into exile following the helpless helpless help- help i less hapless king into alien lands It is fortunate fortunate fortunate for- for for Spain that the tile revolution was act ac- ac r t f without the tile shedding of blood It T that marked the overthrow of the tile bourbons from the throne of France a century ago But the discarding of the tile king is merely t T an incident It is more of a change than an f overthrow of authority for in place of th the T power wielded from the throne must come a aJ anew J new power springing from the people themselves themselves themselves them- them selves a power as autocratic perhaps as ever t The Spanish people are in for a disillusionment if they regard the cha change as tile the the i dawn of Utopia They shall have the tile kind 4 of government they deserve and no better and the sooner they apply rational t gent methods to the administration of or national national na- na affairs the tile better they will be off I t. t Yet Spain must learn that the whole i t world is and that the peoples of the earth must earn their right to happiness happiness happi- happi happiness ness before they may be permitted to enjoy it |