New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-06-15

factories of Barcelona; the Countess Of Montijo in
company with several tayern-keepers, was plotting
terrible conspiracy. The potentates Of the money
| world were preparing q Socialist division OF
| the goods of the people Of the suburbs. The
Duke dc 10 Tore was cOnspiring at the head
Of bis troops at the North and even King Amadeus
was conspiring against his own power and his own
| person on the summit Of the throne The indigna-
ton which was provoked by this ridiculous docu-
ment was Undesirable. Never had there been
| such gross and vulgar ISLANDERS believed by any
| Government. Never had calumnies Of this char
acter been listened to- and even rewarded as
revelations indispensable to the safety of the State
Never did coarser plot cover more ridiculous
comedy. The Government could not survive such
stupid blunders It's fall became inevitable, and in
fact the Government fell Withdrawing the docu-
ment from the Congress, and itself retiring from
power.
1t is said that we have made great progress In
parliamentary practices in the influences of Para-
ment upon Government, since the coming OF the
King / confess that am 30 prejudiced OF so blind
that do not see this progress. Twice has the OPP
position triumphed in the late Cortes, and the Gov
eminent answered both victories, once with the
suspension, and the other time with the dissoia6on
of the Chamber The first condition of healthy life Is
purity in the electoral system, and our electoral
system is profoundly yitiated. If it were not II 1t
preserved that moral authority which the decisions
of people in the fullness Of its sovereignty and OF
its rights ought to possess, q government raised
after free elections and sustained by the public con-
science would have nothing to fear from the Court
or the national representation. The last ministry
has bitterly paid for its fatal attempt to fasfy and
violate the will of the Spanish people.
Everything indicates that we are to fall again
under the yoke of Conservative parties. In Spain
the Conservative parties do not represent as in Eng
land the great land-hOlders, nor as in France the
great interests Of commerce and industry, nor like
the extreme Right of the Chamber of Lords in
Prussia, tradition and the church. In Spain the
Conservative party ia composed of bureaucracy
whose indispensable means Of existencei is the public
| Administration This Spanish Conservative party
cannot live away from power because its
nucleus derives its exclusive support from public
Office and it is therefore bound by the closest bonds
to the military olgarchy the old arstocracy of the
army, which forms the heaviest charge upon the
War Budget. The administrative bureaucracy
if the redundance of phrase may be permitted, and
the military bureaucracy leave peace or rest to
any Government which is not composed of its own
people; and in this way-at time with genutlex-
ions in the court and another time with war cries in
the barracks now arranging coup detds against lib
erty and again preparing reckless conspracies against
the monarchy Indifferent what government may ex-
st whether it approach pure democracy or whether
it approach pure monarchy, that it may confirm
its influence and perpetuate itself in the Govern
ment this party is the constant cause of unending
perturbations The Conservative party needs there
FORE if 1t is to be of any to the country to define
its ideal in long elaboration of its doctrines and to
accustom itself to the work Of opposition in long
absence from power.
Only in this simple manner could it be regenerated
so as to and regenerate the policy of our coun-
try; for at this moment there is occurring some
thing exceedingly singular. Our fundamental code is
the product of compromise between two parties,
between the Conservative and the Democratic
parties The Conservative party brought to this
code all that it has of old ideas-the monarchy, the
royal sanction, the High Chamber; and the
Radical party brought all that there is in
| il Of new-the national sovereignty, In
| dividnal sovereignty the natural rights of
man. and suffrage extended to all the individuals OF
of people. And when it was necessary that all these
| reforms which marked the advent of democracy
in public fe should be put in practice by the party
| which has propagated them, which has matured
! Them which has made them prevail in the Govern
ment of the State we met by the fact that this
party finds itself always prescribed from power con-
| demned to await its merited opportunity which
never arrives from the impetus OF revolution alOne
1t cannot be denied that there are Camarilas
They do exist and exist in great number, and from
the palace they domineer over the Parliament
When the civil war was making its dangerous be-
| gnnings when the Parliament was not yet consti-
| tuted when the communications were interrupted
between Andausia and Madrid, between Madrid and
the North; when in other provinces and at our very
| gates parties of insurgents were swarming, there
| arose a contemplate question which threw politics
into confusion, which retarded the war operations
ministerial crisis arose a courtiers office, as if
| we had been in those unhappy times to which the
history of France refers the times of the Mayors
| of the Palace and the Faimant Kings.
Thus it is that public opinion finds itself Overruled,
and the civil war continues as if nothing had been
done to crush it, 1t is true that the Pretender has
| disappeared from Navarro without any information
received OF him since his various defeats, and es
pecaly since the defeat of Oroquieta but it is also
the truth that nsurrectionary bands continually
forming, and sustaining themselves in Biscaya with
out our being able to say when they will disappear;
and the cause Of this is that the ancient idea of abb
soutism cannot be successfully opposed but by the
modern spirit and our present policy cannot repre-
sent the modern spirit, because it is policy of re-
action, policy incapable of attracting adherents,
policy of skepticism; and skepticsm though it may
possess interested priests, never inspire heroes
or martyrs. EMILIO CASTELAR,.