| Show VALE VAIE SPAIN spain is down at last hopel hofele completely down with none so as toldo todo her reverence not only but she Is in the ashes of sorrow and poverty with I 1 MV broken and her heart sore alt 41 1 a gui enly refuses to concede these F facts fc 4 artent it t is useless to regret the past but g may be useful to consider it if there f by the one so doing may be constantly f warned by his errors and keep stead lly aloof from them thereafter t career has been so full of errors rousing ranging all the way from ordinary mistakes to extraordinary crimes that rt it is not to t be expected that she can g 1 effect a reformation altogether or 9 at t sall so long S as the present generation remain remains but she can by no longer being engaged in those occupations chih wh ih furnish an opportunity tor for the of rank offenses turn her attention to useful hono honorable callings 4 and at least lay EL a foundation for the boaen of the future to build upon that teller her chief if not her only chance T A study of the history of that crime 0 stained unprogressive land is of the deepest interest to those who concern thenis themselves elves in the subject of ethnology avd and the growth land and decadence of nations spain was abnee ance the most forbid able power of the globe and in that day aay one of the most if not the most adva advanced peed but has not kept pace with the advance of mankind in his 1 abet st estate her navy was and for over L lob years remained the terror of the t while her internal resources peas A frere ere so great that she had no reason to contemplate a decline although the s enlist of decay had already taken I 1 dament in the body politic and the of dissolution had commenced downward road was entered tie na linearly kearly li arly years ago just after the with the vene letory t which jointly ans she gained over turkey in a eat naval battle it was the last fight the kind she ever came out of vic r cerious fe rious ous after great preparation and lapse of much time she endeavored e to rehabilitate herself in her maritime astige es tIge by crushing the naval power r af it f len england gland in a sea fight whose mag was to startle the world and tb this end the magnificent nav naval al beant Fe ant known to history as the aj Sa wada roada went forth met the enemy I 1 rand i and was crushed defeat followed de at t decline inc increased ceased in precipitancy precipitance Y af 1 aad from a first class power the span kioh lab nation at the beginning of this dropped into the second rank 4 century asid gd by the middle of the century was artall artl ll lower nothing then remained of i or er once vast american possessions but and porto rico and now they aft e gone and she has no rating f among the nations at all shorn k or of property destitute of credit anh almost no navy with which to ade mjmie ein and defend her interests on the abr with subjects ground to the dust and clamorous for an overturning of i me ime abe political and social fabric smart AM under a defeat made all the more ling because of her great boasting abna ama the rapidity and completeness with which the overthrow was accod I 1 how could she obtain a clas there would be something g in such a situation to excite sympathy and com were the demeanor of the 8 spanish in such an awful crisis almost raa A V thing but what it is the more peoples of the earth might owr bf the time at least overlook the f 41 jimes and barbarities inflicted for cen tortes baries upon the natives of cuba porto r sueo and the philippines until these have become degraded spiritless spirit lesa and 7 aly all but worthless animals could pass aby toy the deceptions iniquities and op je practiced upon the people at home could and would consider for a sl ym ox at least the really gallant fight I 1 f which the spanish soldiers and have exhibited on every were it not for the repelling that hat the bruised bankrupt rem hot a nation persists in carrying proudly and acting almost as ar as though not crushed into N chaos and compelled to accept of such terms as an overly generous foe is willing to accord her the unfortunate we have always with us this having reference to nations as well as to individuals A all 11 make mistakes and all are subject t to unlooked for visitations of hard fortune it is the frequency of such occurrences curren ces that makes the humane and the thoughtful lenient and forbearing even when great imprudence lack of judgment and conduct amounting to criminal have been practiced but all softness of feeling disappears when the vanquished one denies that he has done wrong or that by wrongdoing wrong doing he has been brought to retribution this is case and a most forlorn one it is |
