| Show HOPELESS supplication the present attitude of spain in tbt me cuban question in ie almost ridiculous the government puts forth every endeavor to belittle the insurrection in ID the eyes of the people both in spain t and other Fur european coun countries countr lep as a rising sot of foreigners end and neirrous nee roes whose followers are it i alleged that but lor for the untimely ur rising the reforms asked for would already have been granted the failure to catch those bandit rb and restore peace to la accounted for by the fact that the sympathy for the cubans Cub ansia to the united states Is ii so great as aa to make an effective campaign impossible who resort to this logic would bavi the world belleve that spanish sol ulers are powerless befort before a little band of cuban bandits only because the sentiment in the united states is against spain al enough this sentiment has baa esyet found no DO more formidable expression than vigorous orations and resolution in Con Cong greer and the clep of a few r ties flea and some ammunition clander sent to cuba from our sea ports it if spaniards are not insensible insen elble to humor they must be tempted to 0 o laugh in their sleeves it if not to in their beards bearde when the situation is gravely and bially explained in that thai manner another tea fes ure of the situation which many will regard as equally humorous humo to is the national appeal to deceased persons for aid against the prevailing drought and toe the cuban rebels A few days ago the capital was the scene of oneff one of strange ceremonies that seem like remnants from the dark ages A silver shrine sold said to contain the bones of st lai dorus was carried in the streets ot of madrid escorted by clergymen and thousands of people I 1 r eluding including civil as an well as military i maisie they carried burning candles candies and chanteau sacred hymns people in the kneeled down as the relic passed by praying the patron saint to resist them the ceremonies were to be per formed every day for nine dine days daye and the members of the royal family were ware expected to join the people in aeppli cation for deliverance it seems seema comment on a devotion that seeks becks to obtain the sympathy of heaven by paying respects to the buat bouet of the great men of the past but such an exhibition furnishes furois bea evidence that the nation dation has baa failed to grasp the meaning of the us ua progress made in the las as centuries and that it consequently la 18 not dot fit to rule a people that has been breathing t a certain extent the sweet air of liberty waited to them from the shores of this republic there is in this display of st a sacred sh ahr ri neat ineat the time of a national crisis much m uch that reminds the world of the frantic efforts of the chinese to silence the japanese guns by carrying dragons dragona and lanterns instead of meet aluir steel with steel valor with valor activity with activity at ai d it if spain tall fall to make her superiority over cuba good when the island shall have gained liberty the world will ate the cubans cuban on their escape not anly iby irom from puli tyranny but also from what appears to be hopeless bop eleis surer superstition |
