The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-09-04

Minister There have been republican insur-
reotions, priestly instructions, Isabella in
surrections. Carlist Instructions The last
if report speaks true, have been sup
pressed with sang uinary sharpness
almost worthy of the hands which crushe
the Lola movement eight or nine years ago.
when even Narvaez himself (to be sure he
was not then in office) rose up in the Senate
and protested against the superhuous saugh-
ter. Spain has, at the present moment, at
least six or seven political parties actively and
fiercely striving for supremacy y-republicans,
unionists, progressists, monarchists and the
factions which should, perhaps, be called con-
spiracies rather than parties, the Isabellinas
the Carlists, and the other bands and gangs
which aim at seizing the throne for this or
that Bourbon. The Carlist attempt seems,
indeed, to have been stamped out for the
present. but the measure is said to find
great favor among the priesthood, in whose
eyes Prim and his colleagues are no better
than the heather. Added to all this
is, of course, the Cuban difficulty The
Spanish Government have gone so far in en-
deavoring to suppress the rebellion in Cuba
that they feel their dignity compromised if
they do not persist; retaining is as tedious
as go DER" In this condition of things it is
no wonder that Prim seeks counsel of some
one; but if the Emperor Napoleon be his
oracle he is in worse plight than Pyrrhus when
he trusted to the double-tongued prophecy.
Perhaps the result of the consultation will
be that Prim, when he gets home, will let the
king out of the bag-the king whom every
body seems convinced that he has been keep
ing tightly fastened up for production at
convenient moment. With the public presen-
tation of this king, whoever he may happen
to be, will come, we venture to think, a de-
cisive struggle between the republican prin-
ciple and monarchy in Spain. There certainly
is no man living who could reconcile the an
tagonism of contending parties and induce
the national voice of Spain to cry hail to his
sovereignty. We attach no importance to
the report set going by Partisan paper,
which points to Marshal Serrano as likely to
be chosen King. Nobody is enthusiastic
about Serrano, and nothing short of universal
national enthusiasm could give a mere
Spanish soldier any chance of sovereignty in
Spain. When the name of the proposed King
is announced, it is certain to be that of some
body belonging to the travelling circus of
princes who are always going about Europe
in search of thrones, and whose existence
and vocation form one of the most insalu-
brious and dangerous nuisances European
liberty has to encounter
This King in the background has certainly
been the worst enemy and curse to the Span
ish revolution Considering that every pre-
vious political convulsion in Spain had only
been a miserable party affair, the expulsion
of one faction by the upheaving of another,
it was the obvious policy of Prim and his as
sociates to give to this at all cost distinctly
national character. A flag should have been
raised at once around which the patriotism of
| the whole nation-whatever patriotism there
| is in the nation-could have rallied. Spain,
to do her justice, has always shown genuine
| national enthusiasm when summoned by
| some cause for which nation could be en-
| thusiastic. But the crafty, Sc
cretive, dispiriting policy of the new Gov
ernment threw a damp upon every ardent
heart The Republicans soon felt that they
were being paltered with in order that they
might be safely betrayed, and even the
Monarchists grew disheartened and apathetic
No political party can be reused into en-
thusiasm by an abstraction; even monarch
ist cannot go into raptures of loyalty about
an expected king whose very name he does
not know. A kind of inert, vacuous expec-
fancy soon, therefore, settled down with
clogging influence over the movement
which had opened with such ardor and bright
ness. The revolution became damp, limp
lymphatic. Prim and his colleagues il
the Government appeared to the nation a
large to be only serving the purpose of wha
is called in English politics ''warming-pan'
that is, a convenient underling who occu
pies a seat in the House of Commons unit
his patron or the son of his patron is ready
to come and take it. Or perhaps they seemed
to hold the still less dgnifed position of the
man sin possession; the man whom the land
lord has sent to look after the house and pro
perty until fitting person is found to TAX
the place of the defaulting tenant whose chat
tells the law has confiscated.
National enthusiasm would have save'
Spain National enthusiasm would save he
yet Only the Republican party seem capa
BILE of arousing and concentrating such a feel
ing, and we do not venture to say whethe
they are strong enough to become masters o
the situation. At the present time the revo
luton, in so far as it is the cause of hbert
and progress, begins every day to lose ground
and it is evident that a new starting pom
must be found, or the whole will be a failure
Every day the conviction grows stronger an
sadder that Prim and his colleagues do nc
hold in their hands the divining-rod which
to reveal the hidden springs of national ell
thusiasm. They have but to produce the
king, their last resource, their grand card,
add one final illustration to those they hay
already given of the difference between tt
juggler and the magician; between politic
craft and patriotic inspiration; between Pri
and Washington.
REDUCE THE TAXES!