Show THE DECnADATIUM OF SPAIN Too NIBIM Th1 Stand rnr moit In a Lous lUrorit nt Kh uf The history of Spain hid long been a record of shame The despicable character of their rulers had ahnoit quenched thn Innate nobility of the ipanlsh people while the aristocracy had sunk Into a proud lethargy In the story of national degradation nt Its worst two name must stand together as pinners In political trlrac thoite of today and Barol < lull who sought to mask their own late ambitions behind the nets of their feeble creatures the < ltiR and Terdlnaml Throughout Ibo whole vile complot motes Olsen female Igure tlal of the Quren whose counterpart coun-terpart muni be sought In the nnnnls of wllchn furies and hcticrio Hut them were Mill left tincontamlnated eleven millions of the Spanish people They were Indolent by nature hind been fettered both by tradition and by worn out Initltullons and had lung 1 groaned In the bondage of corrupt ndmlnlnlra lion With Ibo removal of the Itourbons all these tervllo paraphernalia were swept away The brothers Napoleon be lot ed and no doubt honestly that puro and capable administration tinder n modern system would roan produce order or-der Industry prosperity and pmre stud that n grateful nation would before long acclaim Its preservers nnd enroll tself ns a devoted ally ngalnst the per 1dlou nail tyrannical government of England It Is IIMICM to speculate how fir this dream would him been real hoed but for Iho utter rottenness of Ibo Instruments with which the reformer worked tho Kings soalllty the Queens lUll today greed Escolgulzs self Reeking Ferdinands tmrelliblllty Murals ambition condo n poor armory of qualities wherewith to nrompllili n icneflccnt revolution Hut tho one vital blunder was after nil not In thin IIM of such tools It was In Ibo contempt for nationality shown first In milting Iho treaty of Fimlalncbleaii then In Its violation by the subicqucnt seizure of Portugal cud finally by Iho occupation occupa-tion of Spain by French troops Do tlarlng that more had been lost than talned by the menu which occurred nt Ilayonne Talleyrand nays that on the occasion ho Icily observed to Napoleon that toddy would pardon much to a man of the world but cheating at cards never If this bo 1 true It was a ttlnglnR rebuke and ono which touched 1 tho heart of the whole lOallorIIIo of Napoleon Na-poleon by Prof W M 1 Bloaue lu Ibo Century |