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Show UNCLE SAM'S VICTORY OVER SPAINAFAVOR Believed That Country of Costly Burdens in Cuba and Philippines. PURE FOOD LAW ALSO HELPS IT Now the Fine Olives Most Bear Label Giving Credit to Their Growers. BY rBEDERIC J HASBTN, MADRID, Spain. The destruction of Cervera's fleet at Santiago, the victory of Admiral Dewey at Manila, and the enactment of the pure food law by congress con-gress are spoken of by many Spaniards : as being favors done to the Spanish by the United States. The results of the Spanish. American war are generally held to have been economically advantageous advan-tageous to a country that had been steadily and heavily losing money in the management, or mismanagement, of its colonial possessions, and far seeing see-ing Spaniards are glad that their country coun-try ia permanently rid of the incumbrances incum-brances that the proverbial Spanish honor forced it to bold as long as possible. pos-sible. Dominion over the Cubans is said to have cost Spain t100.OWl.000 in thirty years, to say nothing of an enormous cost in humsn lives, a cost estimated br a Spanish critic of his country at ' 150.000. While there is no similar estimate esti-mate rf the disastrous resulte of ruler-shin ruler-shin in the Philippines, the cost of maintaining their position in the archi-peJngo archi-peJngo was heavv to the Spaniards, and n substantial burden was lifted when the islands were forever cut from the diminished territory of the great empire that was given added wealth and power after the discovery of America. Get Just Recognition Now. A smaller, but msterial. benefit resulted re-sulted to Spain when the American pure food law made it impossible for r-penish olives nnd olivs oil to he sold to the United States under Freach and Italian labels, t'ntil recently both Trance and Italv made large snms by , handling the products ef Snsnish olive gropes, snd the Spaniards lost heavilv wMle aupnlving The "Xmeriesn market . with the best olives thst resch it. At - present Spanish olives snd oil must en-fee en-fee America ports with a label that tells. v The . industrial outlook in Spain has improved materinllv dnrinir recent 'ears, and if political conditiona do not nrernte to interfere with i the expansion ex-pansion of industries snd the imirov ment of agriculture, the probshility ir that within the next quarter of a century cen-tury Spain will assume a much more important nlaee as a -producing conn-trv conn-trv than she has had since the beginning begin-ning of the decline of the empire. Spanish Span-ish aernrities are increased in value aa a result of prompt meeting of interest psvmrnts on the nstionsl debt, and while Spanish money is still at disadvantage dis-advantage in exchange, there is sn improvement im-provement ss against conditions ten vears ago. There is an irrieation project pro-ject afoot that aims at relieving the summer aridity of lar-e sections of agricultural agri-cultural country, and with irrigation will come a wider diversification of crops and scientific rotation that will prevent soil butchery. But agriculture ia aa yet not showing the advance that is being made in other branches of industry. in-dustry. Barcelona Growing. There are several "boom towns" in Spain that are being compared with progressive pro-gressive Americsn cities. The chief of these ia the industrial capital. Barcelona, Barce-lona, "the metropolis of Catalonia, a hustling modern cilv devoid of the "local color" delighted in by noveliata and plavwrighta who picture the Spaniards Span-iards aa being more intent upon getting their siesta in the afternoon than in getting on in the world on the morrow. Catalonia has been an independent and somewhat rebellions province since the earliest history of Spain was recorded br the old "chroniclers." Its language is not eVpanish. but Catalan. Ita ideas and ideals are the ideas and ideals of Cstalonia. and not of Spain. It advocates advo-cates loeal eelf government as hotly aa it advocated It centuries before the con- twit iu iin m lut npinisin kiunuvuw under un-der th Catholic kings after th fall of 0 rap da. Its orators and newspapers are Are eaters. But if it seeths politically, politi-cally, it h unties industrially. Barcelona custom house handle nne-f ourl h of 1 be foreign trad of Ppain. Ita modern streets and modem hoiUinga are as different from the ft reels - and building of Seville and other ol fashioned Spanish cities aa those of th best laid out city in tbe America middle west are from the qua in teat village ia the oldest part of New Kb gland. Civic BvMty Prid. Tb eity is a large aa St. Louis and the adjacent towns that may be included includ-ed in "Greater Barcelona" would give it at Iraat 1,00II.(HIU inhabitants ; A civic beantv propaganda is engaging the attention, of the Catalan metropolis and it ia proposed to do for it whst Heme Haussmaa did for Paris aad Pierre I Enfant did fpr Washington. Barcelona has been called the Chicago Chi-cago of 8paia bv disappointed tourists whe expected to nnd it "typically Spanish," Span-ish," but -its business men do not resent re-sent the appellation. If the traveler is looking for quaint old cities with Moorish Moor-ish palaeea and gothic cathedrals, the -country has enough of them to occupy his time aa long as he wishes to stay. The Cataloniae Chicago has other and more practical aims. It proposes to ecliose tbe fairly modera and fairly "live" city of Madrid as an important center and population, aad earea not at all that Seville and Madrid have Ms rillo paintings to show to the foreigner, while it aae nothing more interesting thsa factories aad mercantile houseej (Continued oa page .) 1 1 UNCLE SAM'S VICTORY I OVER SPAIN A FAVOR (t ontinued from page 1.) and a deep water harbor entered by 4000 ships every vear. Haa Antomoblla Factory. Barcelona's chief manufactunns; industry in-dustry ia cotton, but its woolen factories fac-tories run 200,000 spindle and the paper pa-per and linen tnduitrie are of great and increasing importance. Through Rareeloaa passe about 10.000.00(1 worth of cork jratbered ia the region whose 'output it handle. About pMii.n.x) worth of silk it manufactured in harcelona and the latest and moat modern industry of thia etty is an auto-mob auto-mob i It- factory' that will do a greater amount of businesa when Ppanish roads are made better than they are today.! Another up to data enterprise ia a schema to "boost" fipaia as a country of interest to tourist, .and jret for this rountrv more of the stream of Ameri ran dollira that flows constantly into Knrope. but of all of the Spanish cities Barcelona, with it modern aims and airs, seem least fitted to make a success suc-cess of an enterprise of this kind. Bpaia produces it own sugar, ehtfly upon the fertile 44 rot,1 ' of Oranada The south of Hps in is a huge forest of oltv tree, the ffrorea covering not only tha "Tejtaa, " but also the aides of the mountains upon which nothing; else would grow. The mills of the country re producing its eupplv ef flour and very little flour is imported. Ppanish vineyrda produce aa abundance of (rrapes from which fa mad wine that ia s bonaebnld necessity ia every bom and is commonly tbs beverage ef families fam-ilies during meals. Oood Orang Thar. Th ejum of thi wise warrants for it a mora important position in world commerce than it bolda st present. On of the groat industries of eon tb era Bpain ia orange growing, and th oranges compare ravuraniy wnn vnv beat grown in seral-tropicaf America. Andalnais ia tbe only province that produce a surplus of grain. The great grain flelda of Andaluaia, treeless and rolling, present the appearance of tbe prairie of America. The old fash loned methods of culture are gradually giving way to modern machinery from 'England, Germany and America, too little lit-tle of it eoming from America because of the failure of American purveyora to interest themselves enffleiently in the market. Th American plow ia. however, how-ever, aeen here and there in a fleld next to one that is being cultivated bv tbe archaic wooden plow of sneient Bpain and the orient. leville ie considering s plan to construct con-struct a gigantic irrigation system that wnnld fertilize tbe already rich, but somewhat too arid, country surrounding it. The irrigation dam sre to be built on the Guadalquivir, near Cordova. Cor-dova. Birmingham ef Spain. ' The lake st th various levels are to operate turbine water wheels to generate gen-erate electric power for factories, electric elec-tric railways and other plants in Seville, Se-ville, and the waste water ia to he run to the orange groves, vineyards and grain flelda. It ia believed that with irrigation thia section would become one of tbe ricbeat agricultural and fruit growing eountriea in the world. A Spanish eity notable for progrea and aometimee called the Birmingham of Bpaia ia Hoelvs, a mining town in weatern Spain, which baa been on a boom for some time, and boasts s aooty atmoapbere. most suggestive of indus- inat prosperity. More uh i,uvv,wv tone of copper, iron pyritea and aul-phurou aul-phurou ore used ia making fertilizers are shipped from the Buelvs piers in the course of s year. Huelvs ships mare tone of freight to America than come from any other Rpaniah eity. and in trade with tb world is th third Span-ish Span-ish eity, Barcelona being the first and Bilbos th second. California Competition Harts. Bpain is a protectionist country which ha shipping law that aim at protecting protect-ing it steamer by monopolizing Spanish Span-ish trade for them. It cannot complain, therefore, at tha fact that th American Ameri-can high tariff has greatly diminished som of its export to America. Th protection of California win Cost th city of Jcres de la Fron terra a considerable consid-erable portion of it population whea large emigration followed the falling off of export of wine to th United Statea. Malaga ha also suffered from California Califor-nia 'a competition in tbe Americas market mar-ket for grapes and raistas. While much remsina to be done to develop de-velop Spain ' agricultural land to their highest point of efficiency, and to open up ita mineral resources, th sound financial condition of the country and the industrial awakening indicate that If political conditions remain sufficiently sufficient-ly quiet not to interfere with industry, the country will surely forge its way nearer the front aa a producer of wealth and Spaniards win not be so anxious to emigrate to South or North America to better their financial condition. |