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Show . SPAIN'S OPPOITUNITY N FOR LIBERTY (Continued from page 1) lar aentiment, eeta&Iiebed the Bonus Catholic church aa the religion of the state, and saaumed the expeaae of cos-ducting cos-ducting ita vaat and intricate machinery. machin-ery. Orators in the eortee who had enae enough to aee that mistaken were being made "volleved and thundered" like the cannon st Balaklava, but to ao purpose. The church and the state were laabed together aa if ao one srer bad spoken of their divorcement. Madrid was tiled with political soldiers sol-diers of fortune whose ambition was limited to a desire to participate in the general till tapping, sad tbe provinces were tilled with equally predatory indi-vidaala indi-vidaala holding ofsco or seeking'to get office. If an honest publie servant in Arngon or Catalonia wanted something done for his people, bo waa removed, tf he could be corrupted he was brought to the capital snd promoted h tb price of his silence. Th tap collector ground down th people ana lined their own pocket. In verr eonoeivable manner the acute and corrupt plundered plun-dered th dull and apathetin. Political parties were about a no meroua in Spain during tb Interregnum Interreg-num na they now are among th native of th Philippin island. Th Mode-radoa Mode-radoa were an old snd decayed party with littl life. Th Liberal agio snd th Progressives were amoog tb mora modern ones. General Prim, now the head of th Prograsaly Prim whose nam bad been shouted for by tb patriots pa-triots who wanted a repsbrle had foaed th Democratic party with hi owa sad renamed it th Bodies. Paopl Wars Apathetic Th duk of Seville, a Bourboa with s biting tongue aad a good grasp of the situation, waa auoted is th eafea as having mad a boa mot to th effect that th only point oa which all parties agreed waa that tb people were an ass for tb party leaders to rid, aad th point oa which they disagreed was tb color of th eaddla. Th situation constituted pain's golden opportunity for reform and a republic, tut th masses were apathetic aad th classes thievish, and th -opportunity passed. The nrwanaper preached a craaad for th republic only to be suspended under order of auppreeaioa. The voter who thought wanted it. A considerable number of tbe deputi tb braioe of tha eortee believed it th only salvation for the country, victimized as it was by ia-trigu ia-trigu and cabal. The monarchists did not argue against the virtue of repobiieaa govern nest. Thy merely said th people did not want it And the people did 't wsnt it badly eaoogh. If they bad, they would have secured it. But tha snaae is Spain wer too illiterate to be live patriot. No United Patriota. Th Spaniard's idea sf libertyslwsv ha bee tows autonomy. Historically be has had Us national feeling taaa th voter of aay other country. Cat Isns hava hated Aragoaeoe, Caatilianj hays looked down upon Catalana. Tha Basque pro-rineo regard Vsleniea as being "early as foreign aa Cents ar Tangier. French sad America optimists op-timists investigated the situation snd wrote for th pre to th effect that th republican propaganda was making converts, that a republic wss bound to f.0- , "ss Franc. Than was the United State, triumphant over an effort to break tb anion. But ther wsa Bom and O recce, both transitory rw-poblies. rw-poblies. observed th monarchists, sarcastically. sar-castically. Tha Spaniard were too ignorant ig-norant aad violent for a republic, said th anoaarehiata ia private converse tio a. Th cynical monarchists ware right. A Spanish rartooniat drew a picture of Spain bagging ia th sate-rhambers sad royal nurseries of Europe for some-ens some-ens t occupy a thron over which tbe sword of Damocles bung. Th only logical logi-cal solutioa was s republic, srgued th American and French. The satirist wss ths batter prophet. When Bourbon Batoxuad. When fruitless effort to wears s king led indirretly to tke disastrous Franco-Prussian war, Amsdeos, eeeond son of Victor Emmanuel of Italy, accepted ac-cepted th crows ia th aotanin of 1870 Hie nigs was so short that tb world aooaj forgot it. Ia 1873 he abdicated, with earliest, federalism, earruptloaiem and ruffianism disturbing ths whole pea-imula., pea-imula., A republic was declared by tb cor. to, snd, under the guidance of tha enlightened en-lightened ststosmss, Castelar, it deserved de-served to live. But ths same fore that had rendered abortive, th ravola-tios ravola-tios of 1868 ware still at work snd the actual republic lasted only front Jane I. 1878, to January 8, 187.. Thes eame another interregnum t be ended after a few months by tha lvatioa t the thron of th Bourboa prine of th Aaturiaa, en of th exiled Queen las-b..""i las-b..""i ,H reigned, as Alfonso XIL, until un-til 1885. His aon, Alfonso XIII., who waa bora after bis fsther's death, is bow th occupant of the decayed, sad tottering thron. a l-e-fvr-1 a !, a. Tomorrow i THB KINGDOM OP SPAIir. XX A Modem Oanaral's AmbiUos, |