The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-12-14
SPAIN.
The Future Of STANDARDIZATION and
Prosperity.

The Future Of spain-Emisration and
Prosperity.
Madrid NOV. 2S) correspondence London Tmes.l
cation and Public Works. man whose patriotism
Is as ardent as II Y enightened, has no other amb
free man to live n.u The greatest evils OF Spain,
ne thinks, arose from. emigration. The remedy il
TO be found In immigration. Constitute Spain
advaptaues 70 o foreign settler And 1t Is perfectly
true that Spain has room for more than twice Its
present Inhabitants r., vu true that that the love
tility OF oil seem TO have intended the peninsula
for the happlesl and weatbiest agricultural region,
spain boasts mineral riches which would reward any
amount Of capital industry and Intelligence that
might be bestowed upon IT, glance sr o. this deep
angels OF Heaven would fain exchange their abode
for Spain, were only the government In harmony
with tho manifold blessings lavshed BY nature on
the land"
practical demonstration that an Engshman will,
within short space OF time, be able to enjoy In this
country ell those institutions. combining thorough
boast Of his own native island, do not why that
tide Of emigration which nows over the waste lands
OF distant continents could not be turned
towards our Peninsula win mutual advantage
to botn countries.r There is no doubt that
tho Latin races might with great benefit TO
their Teutonic neighbors Spain the only coun.
try laboring under the disadvantage Of a scanty
population Italy also, and especially her islands OF
rival OF many hundred thousand immigrants. But
II must be allowed both that the necessity for an
increase OF population is more urgently felt IN SPAIN
and that Spain presents wider opening, especially
to English enterprise, than any other European
community. In the first place, the depopulatIon Of
Spain did not arise from natural causes but from
downright human violence; and not from the raw ages
OF foreign invasion, but from che mprovidence OF do
Teme, csea @ seeSrea wna.
Ferdinand and Isabella drove out inyriads OF Jews.
Spain is OF oil countries where colonization 10 prac.
ncable her next door neighb0r. The coasts OF
Galicia are only few days sail from those OF
Devonsnirs. The whole northern region OF the
ENGLISH counties. It mas all their verdure and moist.
ure oil their smiling landscape, though on q larger
scse all their mild and variable climate though
WIKI greater fertIlizing powers. Even the population
Of those northern districts stl preserves all the
fairness and robustness Of its original Gothic
PS 1S Ss. IN spaS hss the or s che
there us Is no soil in the world that can
match the productiveness Of Estremadura--no
soil that IL In greater want OF husbandmen. The
northern zone would be the most Immediately at
c,n ~ 70 niimaiey the most ppotabe The lands
OF Estremadura and parts Of those OF Leon and Cas-
tile have hitherto apored not only under the evils Of
proper outlet for their produce. The waters Of
more than one-hali Of the peninsula flow into
Ns Atlantic Su sssw .ss ssa saa ere
q al policy Of both Kingdoms have hitherto reared
an insuperable barrier. THAT barrier must now be
overtkrown, f6f however chimerical the notions Of
political fusion Of the two divisions OF the Iberian
peninsula may be, something like customs union
between them viii be felt "a an irresistible neces.
sIty hallway Communication between Madrid and
Lisbon Is already established, and the main line
could hardly subsist without the support OF branch
lines and OF good carriage roads through those
places which were In some degree hitherto I'M
peopled simply or mainly because they were mac
cessiole spain must, so TO speak, be conquered In
the same measure as IL Is colonzed. Everything Is
Ist to be Done. Togethef with tue husbandmaD, cue