Show tG GREAT GREAT E T BRITAIN AND SPAIN Y f Admiral Admiral Lord Charlea Charleu Beresford Fighting F Charley Ohi h wants five British fleets one for th the home H country one for Canada one for Australia one for forNe Ne New nr Zealand and another for South Africa and thinks th the colonies ought to help get the fleets I ady and his reasoning is that while all all all' th the oz 1 is talking war if jf the British government in keep far enough in advance in th the way of a that will insure peace all the world around f Gi Great at Britain must be growing old In Eccle- Eccle stes the writer tells of that period of old age fears are arc in the way when old fellows l ise rise up at the voice of a abird bird and when thc they get bt afraid of that which is high J d Great Britain is showing all those symptoms Whenever any any announcement is made that Geri Ger- Ger i Inan has lIas completed a new ship that affects Great Britain like the voice of a rooster in the morning R. R id it cannot sleep an any more mor and aud every eJer time some or crinan orman nan sta stays g up an hour or two in m the air with witha a Aeroplane then Great Britain is afraid of that is high Vh Why should not old age creep upon n f as well as upon individuals r f the he other hand it seems that Spain has ta- ta f. f f ken new l life f Havin Having no colonies of her own to I i she has gone to work at a steadier hu business iness under better management her schools are improved im im- proved she is beginning to assume some such a n ar r place as she did lid in rn the long ago i But speaking of Spain was Spain was there ever such a 4 f history When Columbus sailed for America she slIe was the tho foremost power of all this earth and that thatis 15 is s only a little over four hundred years ago The Mo Moors ro rs had just been expelled q her power covered nearly half of Europe and andri jn the succeeding hundred hundred hun hun- dred and fifty years Jears the treasures she received from the now nov world were almost incalculable am and yet in three hundred years she site had so deteriorated rated that Lord Wellington said her soldiers were worthless and she became the sick man alan o of western Europe I Her lIer present king i g seems to bc be a a modern manThe man The elements of manhood are very strong naturally in the Spanish race and if she can shake off what wha has been tyrannous in in her kings and debasing i in her priests and can reach a point where here the government gov gov- can be administered honestly there is ye yet hope for her As long as she owned the colonies in the Pacific and in the Atlantic those Atlantic those rich rid islands that paid her so much tribute tribute site she Ic let things drift but when they were all stricken from fron I I her grasp and she found herself reduced to her own resources on her own native soil it seems she ha hia haio turned a a anew new leaf An honest an ami s some hOin m Wise Avis statesmen can make a great country out of Spain still The disappointing thing about Great Britain i is that that country seems discounting its own power be because ause in ill fishing strength there is no nation superior superior superior su su- su- su to Great Britain either on sea or land am and if ever the emperor of Germany gets hi Ida his fleet in such form that he thinks he can try ty conclusions conclusion with Great Britain his fleet will have a great deathe deal dea the worst of it because while the Germans have hav done lots of land fighting in the last thousand years ears they have done very little sea fighting anc and English seamen are hereditary fighters and the they have a habit of standing behind the guns until th the guns are knocked out of the way And returning a moment to Spain it seems seem that that claim against Cuba was presented merely merely mere mere- ly for political effect It was to satisfy the Liberala Liberals Liberals Liber Liber- als ala in Spain and it was presented to prevent the Liberals from making that a a a- count against the pre present ent government |