| Show SPAIN SOW NOW ANI AND FORMERLY there is 19 no DO surer symptom of the seriousness of the crisis through which spain is now pawing than the fact that spanish newspapers less leaa than a year ago so ao hopeful and defiant are commencing to give room to utterances oi of desi despair pair cuba it Is feared will prove the waterloo ol 01 0 spain and they venture the suggestion that the ais of the rebellious island may be the only alternative ter native left before lung long the heraldo Her alJo a madrid paper is ie quoted as aa fal follows fallows lowb what chod has been accomplished now by the expenditure of the millions necessary to satisfy the mors mora claims what has been accomplished by the abandonment of our sovereignty over the cuban jurisdiction sea flieh the ignominious settlement of the Al alliance Alli lianca anoa incident the continual disavowal of general wellers Wey lers erts edicts the explanation of lecture at the royal geographical academy the humiliating issue of the competitor case an and d so ao many other instances of weakness in our relation with the ya yankees have all been to no purpose did the government act thus in in order to gain time hardly no preparations have been made as yet vet we shall have one more vessel in several months and two others in a year the transatlantic cable la is in the hands of the united states and the docks which our austrian kings wished to build at havana three centuries ago have not been begun itis it is possible that we are mistaken and that senor canovas did what was right in postponing until 1897 what should have been done in 1895 yet few naval officers will fail to declare that war with the united states was waa much easier for us at the time lime of the al lianes incident than now past history and present condition presents a leisson to the nations of the earth less lieada thun than lour four hundred years ago that country was the set est power of europe spanish literature fashions and customs were the patterns ot the world wealth poured in from the newly countries particularly from south douth america but as was abe case with ancient rome borne the glory of wealth and power proved a stumbling blok the people became eu snared in the worship of gold and the In ineatia Ina atia satia ble desire for pleasure the wealth was squandered instead of aped for the benefit of the people tyrants arose who kindled he texo fires fire of perse cation and bigotry from one end of the country to the other and succeeded seemingly in IB smothering mothering in the reeking ashes the principles of religious and Dolit political teall liberty that broke through the dark dow in northern europe promis lair deliverance to nations bound to in the chains of ignorance rod and fanatic tam germany gave the world a reformation and spain an inquisition from that time decline date it has baa well been said aid that the wealth of peru destroyed spain truth valor rod and honor became secondary cos considers siders lions and gold the first but money made in unrighteousness unrighteous and without much toll toil did not bring prosperity ity spain soon boon became the battle ground of europe and its antique fallen greathead grea theae to ie a testimony tea to the re tribu tion that always follows violation of moral laws were the spanish people today united it would perhaps be an easy matter to settle the be biffi curties in the various colonies out but the abe fact to la that at home borne there Is IB much onea Binega einess and the spirit of rebellion to in abroad the ad berenato of abe government are continually harassed by the republicans on one side aide and by the V Carli stevn the other there in much agitation amont among the people and a conf ilot lot may arise at any anytime time spain is 19 sorely borely tried it Is an immutable law applicable to nations as a to andt vid calp that the reaping is in ao according carding to the seed sown sow n |
