Show PRESS PARAGRAPHS The situation in Spain awakens a great deal of comment It is an astonishment astonishment as to the Washington Post It is a mystery that a Spanish army should mutiny in hi our age when there it call for battle and that battle against the Moor The effort to sever the the union of church and state is looked upon as HS the underlying trouble by the Atlanta Journal The recruiting of troops to sustain the cause canse of Spain Spam has been a factor in bringing about the uprisings in in Catalonia Catalonia Catalonia Cat Cat- alonia and elsewhere in Spain but the internal dissensions which may be roughly characterized as a struggle for forthe forthe forthe the more complete comp severance of 01 church and state similar to that in France are arc arcan arean an underlying source of irritation This is indicated by oy the attacks upon the church property of which we get a glimpse through the censored press dis dis- dis- dis patches The New Haven Journal Courier thinks socialism is behind the trouble It says The throne be in may not in danger but the fact that all Spain has been put under martial law shows how serious the situation is It gives to the world one of the best possible illustrations of the great folly and fundamental weaknesses of certain modern day revolutionary revo revo- doctrines which are gaining converts constantly because of the great unrest which the acute financial conditions conditions conditions con con- of the hour produce The Loni Louisville Journal Courier advises King Alfonso to sit low i saddle It reasons this way To swap horses crossing a stream is proverbially hazardous and under such untoward conditions Alfonso maybe may maybe maybe be confronted with a republican pronunciation pronunciation pronunciation pro pro- starting in the provinces Nevertheless in Spain as elsewhere the theman theman theman man who sits tight is the man who stays in the saddle The Los An Angeles eles Times thinks it folly fol fo- fo ly lv for Spain to engage in a foreign war It n remarks that To most of us especially perhaps to Americans who have nothing but the best wishes for our late and vanquished vanquished van van- adversaries it seems little short of criminal folly for the government to embark on another foreign war for which there appears to be little or no necessity It might be better to abandon abandon aban aban- don all an the North African holdings and concentrate attention on development at home The Boston Transcript gives ives' ives sym sym- to Spain in the following t To 10 o attempt to precipitate a civil il war as a protest against one with an ancient enemy is extremely illogical Spain has the sympathy of this country country country coun coun- try in her present straits The Cleveland Leader forgets the theold theold old animosities that rule in Spain and thinks the tho newer life is stirring there It says 8 It is the newest life of Spain which cries out most ominously n against the governments government's course in the matter of the Moroccan war The old fashioned peasantry of Castile is quiet enough and there is no report of outbreaks among the fruit growers of Valencia or orthe orthe orthe the herders of MurcIa It is in the I cities of Catalonia the most advanced province of Spain industrially and commercially that riots threaten to grow row into civil il war v-ar ar and rebellion may maybe maye mayhe he be e the later stage of widespread dis dis- dis content I It It is party politics says the it Hartford Times I Party polities polities' describes in two I words the real cause of the trouble in I Barcelona as it has described every uprising uprising up up- I rising which has occurred there since the American war and the fact that it is is aggravated to a grave rave extent docs does not change the situation The king should appeal to patriotism of the people is the view of Paul Pioneer Press America wishes well to the present liberal government of Spain Spam both in its internal intern a administration and in its effort to barbarism by European civilization ion in a portion of f Morocco Some of us cannot help thinking however however how how- ever eer that if the kin king had appealed to I Ithe the patriotism of his people rather I than to the conscription for the tho forces with which to maintain the honor hOllor of Spain in in Morocco the present disturbances disturb disturb- II ances anees mi might ht have been avoided |