| Show m SPAI JS S NAVY AV OS IS ISO O Lf O 0 P nut it t t C t Itro i r Ilona Iona Titan Than TIti The ft rare JC 1 Guns Sent M n of t lie he Sea IU WHO WILL NOT QUIT filth x a mood Tine Time and Frighten the When It Talks of Theu t 1 ectal 11 Correspondence It were not so sad It fro would old be this the oC at nl nIt Inter International national navy nOVY As the Spaniards es frankly ad mU It II exists only on paper yet el this non navy no not only coSts more morl than Ihan when I existed In fact before the tho destroyed It but It line hns Just Juet caused the tho downfall ot of n a cabinet and provided Sprain with n a new naw premier and with n a problem that mn may prove too biG for tor him This Thill cipher cuts culs a I bIgger It at present than III any ot of mite It nearly are In the and repairing of at the tha ships whose cost ot of Is 18 now nearly through the tho expense ot of repairs are employed for tor forthe the tho ships which are being hullt and a 1 bore nor Is expended on the ar arsenate senate Ind yards the use uso uselessness ot of which le Is From It appears that the Roy noy mil 11 un navy costs coats the tho Spanish ratepayers every moro more than thon when limo Iho four cruisers time Iho various minor vessels In the war also formed part ot of mho Iho fleet liB as In 1999 1899 before lime war with the Iha United States the minister ot of the tha thenay nay of expenses mine to leee BE DISCHARGED JIll the roost mORt ridiculous Part or of this east nal national farce Is yet to 10 come the CO 60 or 70 past when ashen Spain really hod I a 1111 navy there thero wera never less than or workmen Today their atone num her remains undiminIshed Thin Thle figuro was excessive oven oen In those times whets tad n considerable fleet Tile hs has repeatedly at ate tempted to In discharge some ut of the tho men hut but always In ht vain Thu men them solves have threatened to t provoke e sear Berl ous It If Interfered with and the deputies and senators of the three thre have Insisted that the government must respect the Iho tIghts Required acquired by those workmen In Inthis this to avoId riots and Inel dentally not to lose the ho support or of the aforesaid deputies and the tho government has hns continued to USe unit mil lions and millions or of the money y ot of the tho naval department In I paying the work workman workmen men man unearned wages This farce was Willi played again only the theother theother other tIny The Tho last Insl ot of th the funds deer rles tined lined for tor the payment ot of the Iho workmen ot of the dockyards paving been beon used liP up thu tho Council or of ministers der do caled nit tn t appropriate nay more mone money tOl fo that object Rut nut ns as soon eoon its 1111 this resolution became known In Ca the laborers rose rosa In I rebellion the tho corporation resigned ll en IS as n II st mho government the the other numerals In Spanish h the Spanish n fleet et Is III lit at enl eat composed I os ot of ono first class Iron Anti ot of tons burden tour four first elM class cruisers e ot of 30 tons or nr two third class claR ot of tons taro 31 ambler vessels In eluding torpedo borts torpedo bOlt boat destroyers gunboats dispatch boats bont ole and 10 training Besides these there ore lire tuo lo not quit finished tho iho Queen Regent second and the General third class Title flits mud much but buI nI Ih little II us It to 10 It Is not what It seems rho onlY Ironclad which figures O In III time tho list ilet I Is the Charles Fifth built 16 years ago its limiting linn line Is l so IJ kv It end It Il pitches so 80 much lint It would be to undertake n a lou loth voyage In thIs ship In a 11 tough cough Sen Ot Of time the tour first class cruise ors above tilt und mind the s of which were four or 0 five years eurll not yet yel properly bitted OUt 1 rood it le h not even Ien possible to toil lell h 1 they will whit he quite l randy nII for tor thIrd tho Cisneros only V series s for tor short passages thAnks to It Its II age ot of 13 unlucky years Tha fourth the the only one In n a serviceable condition tin so frequently suffers t I III at IIII atI I having heen built hullt In ha Toulon nail III IIII ale aleI I ways being taken to that French lonch 1 port I el It was ha need Med or of repair the Ihu often otten observe sarcastically that It steam were got gol up In the Pc Is layo and It were disembarked It Il would woul 1 alone Ilone without the alit or of any pilot straight ways rIn forthe for the Iho port or of Toulon One or of limn tho two class cruisers time Iho Rio Hlo ubo 10 In III Pia Plata till to h by the colony co ony ot of tho Argon Argen tine line when wilen the war with th the filled States broke broko out Ins hns cost for tor which Is to 0 give nn h ot of Its condition rho other I is or of such little Worth that It Is only utilize i zed tor t nr Imprisoning l I In n It hot 1 le who Sala nto constantly B In Bome town or other or orthe the Tho 31 II manner 1111 el vessels essell when not being In the tho dak 10 yards are only In the coasts In to prevent the tho land landing ing or of arms arm by the wok worl In they are not useful on account or of their back Inck or of speed and fighting power As R for tor the Ih they answer so badly ly time the purr rO roso 1 for which th they are Intended that thill according to what the Iho sailors say th Ihn who are pent ent on board of Ih them I III to II hI be onlY learn to 10 thank this th 1 1011 for tor permitting them to 10 disembark with wino II a whole skin WI Iannot c oven en hope hOPt to toFe Fe our fleet Ahll Improved by the nt at An early date of th the new cruisers queen nM and Gen Oen The Tho cnn ot of these cruisers begun 11 10 or iZ 12 years ago 1110 roll Faking In Into Inlo con the ox progress which has bun been of 01 lat into In the tho building lit of It Is III likely that when the Ihl queen gad the ion are tin l hed n 1111 III ho he lucky if IC thoy can iIi hi ul even ven as an guard ships They Ot cost the Spanish rate In from rom to each A it itIn In eilte ot or th the actual hoot t being such sucha n a mo kory Its maintenance co costs I I Spain annually nn Ines I Henn ot of otI I sum slim are spent Ip is paying the Iho personnel only 1 a small ot of Ih the Mine bent and only when then the state tit of the tho vessels per ot of the respective provinces l 1 threatened the ministry whim wih ni all kinds I W m 1 of oC o nl at the reopening ot of par parthe I tho rendered l d IW lums tor the mel ot promising to ask tuk to grant eVen Ioro Except for tor tholo thoo who are to be II tho lt tho N tho Queen Regent and In repairing the tho damage suffered by the tho various ships or of the loel fleet what the or of do don dol l ip r hus hust n enigma which f no hll et t succeeded In OF 01 NAVAL Many other cases ot of waste In the dockyards or of the tho state might ho be tilted For example It I is wel welt known that every called upon to fl tilt the post or of minister or of the navy gives lucrative places In ha his depart department t ment to 10 friends and ro teges although theta have hla n no knowledge know of things relating to 10 the tho sea ea thou they havo of 01 the different ape cite cles ot of The nosy nOI Senor has hIlS proved no to the Iho rule mid ho hn hat limb b AI a brit limit and transcendental Idea As I ns as loo he hall bad taken possession ot of hla he ordered n chapel I to bo erected In ha time tho build hags Ings ot of the tho naval department and title sacred hRs bas JU just t been nol aol and 1113 Masa c 09 era to he be nl there on nil ni holidays tOI ten the tho ot of the tha do de department From time Immemorial the tha expenses ot of the tho nn envy thorn thoro yearly fig figore UN ore some thousands ot of dol dollars art ro for the theeo eo horses horst s or of time nn navy mind It ht seems that these should of limo tho horses of the of the Iho or of Another Anthor out In Iny In the naval Is h occa stoned by the tho and or of the vessel which presented t tl the state stale by a L Spanish at the time ot of time tho In ha Cuba was IS afterward trans transformed formed lute Inlo u 11 for time tho royal 1 II which uses It II IIA as such any anymore nn moro more reason renson than that It costs As It ni all this were nt not to In increase cren crease time th expenses exp of 01 the tho 11 navy Il t II Is Issell sell time tho to 10 begin paying the tho officers of n a the tho day dayon on which the slap to 10 which they he long hue been launched I It therefore results that there thora are dozens or of those des tor the General fors and nm limo tho queen Regent for tor pie who Iro are receiving good nod 11 II its six or years oar before nay service Other Othel ocels s who for tor forthe the Ihn ot of vessels s ls have not hen been to sea tor many years have 11 pay and promotion so that It II happens that I a naval ho he stays strictly nt at home reaches atthe at the end ot of n certain number ot of years the highest degree In his career II In Spain everybody that when time government sent Charles V to take part In the lust gloat review nt at limo ship had to relur return before reaching Its ho O runny ot of time tho became terribly seAsick DESCEND Rut In nil that relates to 10 nobody can contend for tor th the palm with Senor Colon olon Duke Duko ot of who In his quality ot of to descendant ot of time hn mortal discoverer of 01 America pea the tho right from the day of his hil birth to be ot of the leot fleet besides receiving annually I a large which I he naturally in In eluded In the tha expenses or of the Ik ded This gentleman among the tho most persona Ites ot of the tho Liberal party and laving often orten beel been designated for the post or of minister or of the tha navy ho never I Ithe the tho portfolio portolo without first obtaining the promise that hI he 1 never nover bo rev re to go o on hon d or of a last year le he found hint him himIC self IC under ender the necessity ot of accompany lag InK Icing nl Alphonse on n the sea ea voyage along tho COAst ot of Austria hii but su tremendous and constant RS the len sea seasickness sickness which the duk suffered on that occasion that Ito he to cabin during the iho whole voyage and when nt at lut le no from hil his retreat to follow tollow the king ashore hll seem hIm look su ar and III I kindly bade him so co to toed tobed bed ed Hulen leaving ashle turn the exIstIng ot the Dukes Duko Iho ot Ve and other or of ids his her be bonging to limo I is that besides beeles the tho facts previously ex exPosed Posed calculated to In provoke Ihl line I It ot of public opinion against any hi hill for the of the tho feet fleet the tl feeling of opposition on the purl part ot of loo people Is hy by time lt of tho iho granted In 1892 by liar to 10 bo be used In the building or It fit battleships It is very dint dim cult cull lu lo tint nl out exactly flow l those mi mil lons have been spent A In these theBe who can its all Iuro sure the Spaniards that even If they wore to 10 devote from 1 5 OO to to the tho bunding ot of n new teet II iho of 1808 would rant not repent themselves May Iny the tho Lord youl yell cooly coolly tlc lobo graphed Senor Muret then colonial minister In arms ver to Cervera viru vho received or order er to 10 proceed to In Cuba ubI from the Iho Canary Islands warned that that the North Amerlean leet fleet was In the waters ot of Cubs Wino Who can say that Ihal even een It If It Il were now decided to I it new s t bleat el time the hut but uto note Spanish callers would not IIo lu se to 10 thrill to 10 confiding In time tha hd of at God especially as It I has become known that various have been heen using nil political influence In order to obtain I a contract tar tor Ing thu Iho new lIew fleet neet on mOB most ode lid to In iii cleo ca sea the Iha recent naval appropriation bi bill h I been approved nt of It seema to he be the momma desire that leaving the of Ihl the navy for tor better and inure lor I hates 1 CI time tho should not lone fu n a day a II trans transforming forming and tle tine lion of nr the naval I It Is iii truo Ul enough nuh however that thai In order to do so the lave halo to begin b bIrnn by I transforming the Iho minister or of the tho envy Senor Is IR a I highly respectable Is and III or hut but he heI I Ignorant In fn ni all naval mat mattire trl tire lie Jl this to 10 bl be r n tact loving 1010 gone lh lome sums two days ago to spend tim Iho afternoon In th lie neighboring pork called ried El EI du do Nenar olden quit there several other friends who In courtenus their surprise fit at geeing hll In that garden ot of recreation Ali Ah You nT uro l to III find me 1 the ler wilI with n a trunk mud her roil th 10 he be eur tf to find I me ha 10 nt at time tha toad ot of t the 10 laval nasal depart l menu nt These 11 are somo ot of time tho reasons whY Spaniards nl not only publicly nok nek for tor the tho postponement or of the lion ot of the leet fleet hut hum resolutely demand th total suppression slon or of Ihl the whole nos nn al department n It |
