, 1880-04-07

leu 90, Ii IL udtb6T O( k6TaOub IUuUb III Opdu.
ish America whether Spain has ever given up
the hope Of recorquering her colonies, as she
has never acknowledge ed by treaty their iGde-
pepdence !; and it is certain that she would be
moved to the hear. by aDy chance of territorial
extension, say, in Morocco. She has been in
fact always. and that in no ignobIe wa7, sin
cerely lingo, and We SEQ the result. Spain
has 5uak to the third grade. She has never
beer able either to coucil;a,e or to keep, when
she bad acquired, Portugal, the Iherian Scot.
land. She las los her Ireland, the Low Coun-
tres. Sac never even seriously wounded her
Russia, Enp land, thou oh she fought Us for a
century in all climates and with far superior
resources. And finally, she so alsnated alike
the suijlgated Indians, snd The whites, through
whom sac governed them, bet she lost Lor
India, Spsnish America, and the Spaniards has
no bitterer enemy than th3 Hispano. American,
Aud the cause Of that loss was. 10 brief, lingo.
ism, the resolve to he selfsh!y pred jminsnt
aud to make selfish ~predominanoe felt at any
cot, th efxed dete animation to consider the in
terests Ct Spain as paramount, 20 rely in every
emergency and under az circumstances Oh tbs
watchfulness Of her diplcma.ists, the aelf-sacri-
fec Of her peopie, tic bulldog ~tenacity ard
courage If her s~oid;elS, ST. lie ia many respects
to our own, and not on any principle respected
by all mankind. Spain, too, spread civilization,
IS SEQ understood it, by the swold. Spain,
too, judged ofevery quarre. il Europe by its
bearing upon her tinterests". Spain, too, wes
everywhere ADD always oG the watch lest her
un-fTieads throughout Europe and her enemy,
England. should ever obtain anywhere any
advantage. Unlike Rome, she gave no citi-
zership to the conquered. Unlike England
hitherto, sle ruled over dark races with a single
eye to her own advantage. Sle carried cut
slra'oht and rcso|utely tho theory once defend
ed III the Pal MGU Gazette. the theory that
international morality Can bear 20 relation 70
Christian stbics, and re see what she is now.
Three centuries have passed, az Spniuis alone;
a discrO~ned empress wlite her ~cotoDiSts re-
cedc on every %troatier betGrs tho races whom
they governed win suoh unhositating adherence
TO The principle that tic Spaniarda, once invest
ed with dominion, must ptedominate.
Are not these two examples st least az sig.
ni6cant as that Of Romeo We, too, believe,
with the Saturday RevieV, thar there ara
races which musG lead, and r&oes for which it
is good, for 3 time al least, to follow. We, too,
are PROUD, passionately proud, Of She gre4i En-
plre Of Which tlese little Islands 10 the North
Atlantic are The pivot. We, too, refuse to part
with any colony w1ich invites cur leadership
though it ,avolVe heavy sacrifice or any c.
pende 10y which canuot show its capacity for
s%etf.rule by seuding IS away. We, too, refuse
to believe that IN extension Of our Empire
must under al circumstances be an evil ana q
bGrder. Bat We desire that the Empire
should he adminis!ere3 by nen who are in-
spired With the 1--we Of guidance aud not of
performances, who prefer leadership to dos
potio power, who will do right even ii loss
should follow, who will place the interests of
humanity, AID especially of subject humanity,
OF a par with thosa OF EGgIislmep, who can
honour even those who resist and sespecS those
who are conquered, who are, IN fact, ENGLISH
men not SpaniardS, Liberals like Canning, or
1mPerialists like Chatham, not, Terry Demo
Gratis like Lord Beaconsfeld and the followers
who have made MIN possible, in a country
which hitherto has, through all its history,
avoided tho intoxio4tion of the military spirit,
and mas honoured the Statesman who benefited
mankind, above the soldier who subdued 1t.
Ten years moIe d -bi' regime, aud the only
great ia me on the British roll Of honour will
be Give.
x Note. During the crisis Of the late
Russo-Turkish war a song was much
in vogue in England which commen-
ced -
awe don't want to fight, but by
lingo il we Go,
We have the ships, we have the men,
we have the money too"
Since then the aggressive party
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