The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-08-06


wants begin to purify society"
WHAT THE REPUBLICANS WANT.
On the other hand what does the republic
patience. Ever since the accession Of Zorrills t,
power. the republicans have given tacit Assem-
Amadeus is no better than Isabela-no worse. ii,
an expedient Of PRINTS, who wanted ribbons ant
and instruct the people. The rest win come il
%s THEY Sery Ts now IN no h Hsey 1es
talk and instruct, and print newspapers and
caricature the King and Sagasta-and they want nj
cade, SO, while preaching republicanism they sup
port Zorri!a and his Ministry, who are the next re
double purpose Tzorra succeeds spain asi Si Is
process of reformation that makes republicanism
easy and natural II no fails then he and his follow
mon principles. 800 you see any signs Of repub
lie now ~ asked one OF the leaders, whose lose
1asss + the wGTa woa 40
generation. The world responds at once that we
mountains in a day. This earth Is a series OF
geological formations. il had to pass under the
frs and Ice and ages Of darkness Your own Ameri,
only the other day that you had the abor-pains OF
war and slavery. What you had to do In war
wass upon upon says n Church nave CASTE to
laws, arstocracy-em with institutions
en na pst0 W and sn a az S a. S Sp
slates-with your timber lands and rivers, and
wide, open countries, with corn and cotton, and
terprislng sons at the rate OLA thousand souls a
day. Don't be impatient with u.s. We are coming
true baptism in blood The sword Is more ant
to be the instrument Of the desp0t than the OPP
portunity of the heemen. Look at France. Her
formations running into the guillOtine and the
coup d'etdt. We can fight That was shown in the
Plaza Mayor, and many time In the puerta Del
ing. But OF what avail9 Citizen Amadeus does no.
body any harm. He is personally as democratic
ds Msn @ He ea %9n i S Sh he
take his passport and go. Well, we mean to give
him his passport and his pay TO date,
duke MaximillanS or what good2 Spanards are
not Mexicans, like Escobedo,. or Indians like that
stony-visaged Juarez, whose face makes you shver:
tell you liberty does not need the sword except
jaarez neighbors show that. pretty time he and
republicans. No, Citizen, friend and brother; our
republic shall come as the vintage comes-in Gods
good timely happy, peaceful. natural influences;
gather the harvest when 1t ripens, and the grapes
are rich and fat and ready for the pulling And that
Is what the republicans are doing nOW.n
AMERICAN INFLUENCE IN srAIN-wHAT AN AMERI-
CAN THINKS.
Between America and Spain business relations
arc in the main confined to Cuba. You see little
American influence here-thrce or four business
men, who trade In agricultural implements and
sy Is the that we have Carried over
the world. There is not even Consul at Madrid,
and no American colony outside OF the family Of
Cuba. At one time she feared us and was
disposed to pay US due respect and honor.
But by our ortqoSs and th. diploma
key. An American resident in Madrid, whose posi-
ton makes direct personal reference improper,
discussed this whole matter the other evening,
when L said that the HERALD would ike his views
as representative man with representative inter-
csts. ~ am very glad to speak to the HERALD" he
to the American people. What these Spanards
want is a ruler When they want they cannot be
& % ne
OF misgovernment can undo truly great and self
reliant people, But Spain is neither great nor self
never saw poorer country than Spain, and yet her
natural resources are only surpassed by those OF
the United states; Take that world barometer, the
money market. Brazil can borrow money at four
and half per cent and sell her bonds now for 90.
Even Bolivia Is only asked to pay six per cent:
Spanish bonds quote at 49, The trouble Is,
the pawnS S When the country wants
so aud 80, bankers and pawnbrokers, and pays
anywhere from twenty to thirty per. cent. The
Grown, are mortgaaed and although the bonds Ids
pay five per cent and control a magnificent Sc
curity they are only quoted at So whyS do you
order and public morality. In the matter OF money
alone see what they do. They give this King, who
middle age merchants and bankers, who did bust
ness with Shylock and Antonio on the Rialto and
controlled the commerce Of the world, Is among
one million and q half dollars year. And what is
more, they say the thrifty young man duly accepts
tries SO the money not only goes out OF the
Treasury, which is something, but it goes ont OF the
SeSnass w sns as% coa Sr
part Of the national wealth. But here the money
does what the others did before him. Old Christina
always sent her money out of Spain and
made made large investments in America. James
many investments for her In the South, and they
say. she lost immensely by selling them In panic
she has money enough to live in that gaudy palace
in the Champs Elysees. Isabella has money and
Jewels also: Old Montpensier has great fortune,
better security for their possessions than Spain or
even France can afford. But, as was showing, the
does no good to the country. Montpensier evef,
sells his oranges from his Seville estates like
market gardener. And while depicting the Treas
ury In this incessant manner there Is no economy.
Look at the civil! list. One duke had certain priv
ileges about hanging people In the Middle Ages.
which IS st paia Families after families recsITe
from Spain annually large sums OF money for
waving rights as ABSURD as this. And when a
told that he means TO attack the foundations of
stable government and the sacred cause Of
property. Not many years since family was COM
PEELED to pay tax to the government because
century ago its ancestors had been burned in
an auto-daJg, and as the estate could
not pay the expenses of the execution ii was
transformed into an annual tax upon his descend
ants Spain likes nothing so much as q moss forma-
ton. She worships the Ivy and the cypress That
gloomy and damp old Escurial Is simply monu-
mental Spain. Philip II. believed In San Lorenzo
and the gridiron, and 80 built gigantic gridiron
In granite, costing millions and Millions Spain Is
insolvent because she mistakes dishonesty for
pride. Look at her hold upon Cuba. Do you know
that believe Spain would make another religious
war to hold Cuba. Prim wanted to sell 1t, but
did not dare Spain holds on to Cuba like
the Irish landlords, with their Castle Rack rents
before the Encumbered Estates act. We want an
international encountered estates act.
they should be compelled. Cuba one OF the richest
spots In the world with infinite capacity for gov
hundred thousand Spanish men who have died
there In the vain effort to conquer freedom. It
n for Spai fOr nh nd tho