Show THE OF SPAIN it if the united states Is not today recognized as the most powerful military power power on the globe it must be in places which contain large numbers of the races which have not kept pace with the march of events it was the greatest piece of fatuity for a nation almost entirely peopled in this way itself wholly bankrupt discredited everywhere clinging to mediaeval media eval conditions and instincts to permit itself to be drawn into a contest with the most populous enlightened power of the world a nation which has its ito chief greatness as the result of cultivating the best beat principles and effects diffusing intelligence and banishing to their own caves of darkness all the influences that support or tend to the op pres slon of the human family it was all the more significant that the tha issue should be on these very lines and not merely on anything temporary or recent that the great republic should make the demand that barbarities cease and inhuman principles be banished from the foreign territory nearest us and not much to be wondered at that the tyrants of that territory should refuse compliance those who know their stolid sullen animal nature were was wae fatal fatuity for the better classes who have education and experience peri ence in the worlds affairs to permit a crowning misfortune to follow so hard upon the heels of a long series of steadily increasing disasters they have done so however and where do they and the populace to which they pandered stand today in the contemplation of the powers or for that raal mat ter in their own estimation humiliated to the very dusts dust with the ashes of defeat dire and dreadful poured out upon her head with no money no credit no friends her property passing from her not piece by i piece but province by province spain prepared for this and yet as an stated it still affects a composure and determination mi mA which all things consi considered deredi may entitle her to some little sympathy the same kind and degree of sympathy that was extended to the great bonaparte when without a crown without country without a following he contemplated the frailty of human greatness and mortal power SUB an a prisoner on board the ship pacing back and forth and hearing no voices but the murmur of the waves as an they broke against the sides of his floalt ing prison the somnambulist of an ended dream the nightmare of a dis enthralled realm the man whom the phantom of hope had lured into ambush to be stricken down at last by that lurking enemy destiny who would withhold commiseration were spain other than what she is there would still be some remnant of hope for her did her statesmen consult the best and brightest exemplars of the worl worlds dis progress and learning instead of blindly clinging to traditions hoary with antiquity and pregnant with precepts at variance with the best interests of mankind did she rely upon the common law as a guidance for the common people and ignore the more obsolete and barbaric codes did she seek to improve the minds and morals of all spaniards spanial do instead of keeping them where they have been for centuries add she even now realize that in gra grappling with a strictly modern nation and an altogether progressive people she has received such a shock that to continue as she has been going means absolute disintegration and resolve firmly to change her policies altogether in the interest of what is yet left her people there might be a healthful growth started up about the nucleus that remains and in future days there could be something that Is in spanish to attract the attention and even admiration of the world but this for reasons previously stated to is not likely to be done that spain will cling to her idols and with them pass into hist heitor or seems altogether certain |