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Show Revolution in Spain. ALAS. POOR SPAIN'. Shorn of your past glory as the herald of the Cross and 'civilization in the western west-ern hemisphere, vou now await the mercy of the mobs inside your imperial im-perial cities. Weyler, loyal though he be to his royal mistress, is a dangerous adviser for the queen regent. Premier Sagasta is not much better. A telegram tele-gram in the afternoon papers of today to-day (Thursday) says the premier is preparing a decree establishing martial law throughout Spain, and it is believed be-lieved this will be followed by an extreme ex-treme national crisis. Already Weyler has given orders to have the troops in Madrid served with arms and ball cartridges, and proceed to the troubled cities in the Catalonian province After the Hispano-American war, for a time, we indulged in the hope that the Spanish people would loyally unite to retrieve their loss through the opportunity oppor-tunity which liberal legislation "could establish, and follow the example i given by France after the disastrous war with Germany.. The queen regent favored su-.h a liberal policy, but it appears ap-pears her Austrian ways are not the ways of the Spaniard. The result is hunger, wretchedness and workingmen, running- mad with anarchy, pillaging the rich and killing those who oppose their strike. J It is hard to find in Spain today a man with the broad views and fearless courage of Castillo, shot by an anarchist anarch-ist only a year before the outbreak of hostilities between this country and Spain. .He carried into the. office of premier all that was left of good in -the republic, enough to modify the monarchy and at the same time keep the Carlists in check. Today none can. tell what the morrow may bring to Spain. It may bring the republic but such a republic! If reliance can be placed on Thursday's dispatches, the bloodthirstiness of the Spanish mob is more terrible to behold than the anger which found vengeance satisfied only upon the guillotines of France. Yet that scourge brought out a Napoleon and a grander people in France. Who knows but history may repeat itself in Spain? What a nightintre all this must he to the young man so soon to be crowned king of Spain: What anguish it must bring to his mother, the devoted de-voted Catholic and amiable queen re- |