The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-10-15

mocIaI5 are gong 10 roIl up maJOIlJy Ol Sixty
thousand in the city. They will do nothing of
the kind, because they will not be permitted
to carry out their contemplated frauds.
The Sweep of the Great Spanish RevO-
luton.
Fronl the ". y Times.
We trust the Spanish Jupta now controlling
the revolution will be justified in their assur-
ance of popular support for the very radical
course they are pursuing.
The extraordinary series of steps taken
within the last few days have been followed
by another. The Junta have seized the pro-
perty of the Jesuits and abolished the Order,
and have also taken ground in favor of the
suppression of all religious corporations.
We most assuredly uphold aud approve
these steps, as well as all the steps previously
taken, with perhaps a single exception. But
we can hardly get rid of doubt that the
Spanish people are prepared to support the
Junta in carrying out a policy so sweeping as
that which has been adopted.
We know the value of audacity and radt-
calism in revolutionary crisis such as now
exists in Spain. We know the dangers of
timidity and imbecility. We also know the
falsity of the maxim that revolutions never
go backward" And we know that If the
revolution is not supported by the sentiment
of the people it will end in its own ruin.
The principal stronghold of the Jesuits has
been Spain. Originating with the Spaniard
Loyola three centuries ago, that subtle Order
have managed, amid all their adversities aud
changes of fortune, to maintain a powerful
hold over the Spanish mind. To them Spain
owes, in great part, her despotism, her ecce-
siastical bigotry, and her mental prostration.
Their extirpation was necessary to the regene-
ration of the country. Neither civil freedom
nor religious liberty was possible while their
| power remained. In peremptorily abolishing
them, Spain but follows course that has been
taken by nearly every Catholic Government
| of Europe, and she has plenty of precedents
| for the confiscation of their property. In re-
| gard also, to the measures for the extinction
of the religious corporations, which monopo-
lize large portion of the property of Spain,
the Junta have done little more than has
lately been done by the Italian Government.
In undertaking, on quick notice, the regu-
lation of all the affairs and all the relations of
| Spain, the Junta, we apprehend, may find
| that they have gone further than is permissi-
BILE for Provisional Government. They have
not only proclaimed civil and religious liberty,
| the freedom of the press, and universal suf-
frage, but they have meddled with internal
taxation and diplomatic business. They have
| peremptorly settled the long outstanding
Tornado difficulty with England by delivering
up the ship and paying damages. They have
| taken up the tariff and ordered a serious re-
duction of import duties. They have abolished
internal taxes on domestic and foreign goods.
They have negotiated loan. They have un-
dertaken the regulation of colonial matters.
| And, in fact, they appear to have applied the
revolution to all the principles, interests, and
economies of the Government.
There was an item Wednesday morning,
among others of greater interest, that the pro
vinces of Barcelona and Valencia have hest
tated in their recognition of the Junta. We
trust this does not signalize the beginning O
reaction that will imperil the great gains
which have been so suddenly effected.