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Show When the Reina Christina was raised out of the ooze in Manila bay, eighty skeletons of men were found between her decks. That Ib a ghastly story. Those innocent men had to die as part atonement for Spain's sins of cruelty to her colonies; her neglect of her own children; her neglect to build school houses; her weakness in permitting her priests to usurp the functions of the state, until national decay and the dry-rot of ignorance and superstition had disintegrated her former valor and left her helpless before a real fighting force. A nation's strength depends upon the units of her people. When their opportunities are prescribed; pre-scribed; when their minds are never lighted by tlie lamp of knowledge; when the germs of hope in their souls are never permitted to warm Into life; when they cease to exercise their own judgments judg-ments and leave the responsibilities or their lives to their leaders; then there follows a time when a crisis comes to them and they utterly fail, and it is not strange to find their skeletons in sunken ships. |