Show WILL SPAIN ottil NOW senor silvella Silve Sil velas laa appelh in the spanish cortes monday would not possess the significance it does had it been made at any other time or in any other place for a castilian castillan Castl llan a loyal castillan Castl llan at that to publicly assert in the flae presence of his fellow legislators andi large numbers of the public that spain will be unable to hold on to iker her transatlantic es Is looked upon as very varly S inifi cant ant over here such a statement Is 16 regarded is as merely a recital of chaki what a inevitable and what any anar one con can see aee whose eyes axe are not closed to unpleasant truths because they are unpleasant but coming from such a source the they X come very near bordering on the starl ilog bluster aluster and brag are shown to be abundant factors in the spanish stock in trade and a candid Statte statement mei amounting in effect to an admission that that country has permitted itself to be drawn into a useless hopeless conflict does but show the exception which establishes tab lishes the rule that the spanish as a class are not sufficiently liberal in their use of veracity silvela must be a man of wondrous nerve as well as unusual frankness to be able to make such a concession under the circumstances had there ther been more of his special qualification reposing in the system of premier sagasta the spanish might today be in undisputed possession of some twenty ships which have been captured or destro destroyed yeI by the forces of the united states government also of large sums of money which have been sacrificed and lo lost stand and perhaps per happ or more of her fighting men who have been slain in battle with yankee pigs but he and his associates were sadly deficient in the re indicated either they did not have the nerve or they were lacking in the disposition to be honest because it is altogether improbable that men of their attainments and experience peri ence in instant touch with all the great powers and great men of our time were unable to realize that sooner or later their country must be the loser in a fight with this one the longer the fight the worse for them also is it unlikely that they could depend upon assistance elsewhere in the absence of showing ability to sustain themselves for a while elt at least atter after having de clemed war the trouble is that the spanish government is democratic in its upholding force and monarchic where no assistance can be derived the former being intensely feared by the latter pa bather ther than give the rabble supreme displeasure and thereby jeopardize the continuity of thel the reigning dynastic figurehead ure head all hnas hands at headquarters surrendered as they will assuredly have to do again and from present appears appear ances very soon that is the power and atoll of the united states were less to be dreaded than a possible uprising of the lawyers and loafers of madrid with the concomitant departure of maxie marie christina tor for austria very well the they live have made their choice and must now take the consequences hard and cumulating as they will assuredly be if spain would hereafter bestow encouragement coura gement and preferment on men who are willing to express themselves as aa has silvela and keep in repression its ito demagogues and blusterers bluster ers if it would cease to coin false promises out of the crucible of falsehood and address itself sternly to the task of dealing honestly with other nations it if it would substitute advanced methods stood examples and widespread education for tyranny inhumanity and ignorance then indeed would it have ik a reliance which might in ia time enable it to retrieve some of its shattered fortunes finding itself wholly in the wrong unable to continue so unequal a struggle and having satisfied the visionary deboot of honor by making a really good fight asad and being cipully whipped one would think it would be glad to stop where it is but it wont apparently |