The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-12-12

serving the dregs but, as IL appears, TO
date, with no real loss of prosli .e. We
repeat we shall watch with interest fur
ther ceyeIopments OF this unique situa-
ion in journaliim.
TIE CURIOUS CASTILTAN NATURE
Nothing could be moro significant Of
the ber bar'c element in the mental COM
position of a Sraniard than the fashion
the Spanish mob has Of expressing its JOY
Of the reported death q General ANroNIo
MAcEo. For pecplo to cheer and to
congratulate upon any episode that gives
hope for tie downfall OF an enemy, the
crushing Of rebellion against govern
ment. as the Cuban revolution Is regarded
in Spain, is natural. VieturICs are to be
celebrates in.erd. Tne brotherhood Of
man is far from being 80 strong that we
fail to rt joics st the undoing of the enemy,
even VIXEN, as ia our own civil war, the
encm; vas q brother IN birth ard blood.
thing like modern times where civil I'D
people lave manifested its Joy because of
the death OF an individual by any such
extraordinary denominations as are re-
ported from Mldrid. II MAcEo is regarded
ss DO moro tnan a common bandit there
would he no cGrs for ssch display. II
he Is regarded as worthy foe, surely
such q, ,monstration seems incomprehensi-
bic. Indeed no explanation can be found
for ii, for tire extrsvegsrc, that IL MEX
in. SO joyous a fiesta in Midrid b,causc
ithe death CT human being. except in
the streak OF the Castilian nature that
makes it a peculiarly differCnS nature
from wnat is to he obsersed in most
c!viiiz I'd countries.
Only human beings. blinded with tie
very fury OF hatred could indulge them
selves In thi, way a: death. I, Is not the
triumph Of tho Spanish army that the
Ssanish mob celebrates with so much Of
hiiarity, nor the Gownfsli OF the rebellion
indicated by tie death of Mscgo but II
is the actual killing OF the man MAcEo
that gives the Spanish mob so much
pleasure. Where elss but in Spain or In
some Oriental land would reioieings be
publicly expressed for such a reason? In
recent months We recall the sympathy
OF the japanese with the enemy al the
death of Admiral TING. Even in their
warfare upon ha-baric peoples, British
and German and French troops have evor
honored the bnTblrian chisitains, dead.
From the personality Of a gallant foe tri-
butc is never " ithheld. The death OF such
may sometimes give ga Il faction In an
impersonal why, hut il is rGrg!y matter
for pu uhliciy expressed rejoicings. In cur
OWE civil war the fall OF sToNKwALL
JACKSON, Of LYON, of REYNOLDS, of
ALBERT SIpvxy JOHNSTON, of great lead
ers on one side ard tho other, were not oc-
casions Ter public congratulation on the
part OF opponents, although the passion
OF strife and uncompromising hatred wac
strong in the land. The anclents ss we
are told, crushed the bodies OF the eEemy
under their chario.s, but even in olden
times we find bonors paid to fallen foe
and recent history. we bsilcve, furnishes
nothing to parallel the gruesome Spanish
festival. 1t 10 the spirit OF nihilism re-
joicing in tho killiag Of Gar, the spirit
of '93 druaE with the joy OF guillotinine
king and yet more inc ompre nensiole than
either stree these are triumphs Of the
hopeless ard helpless weak over the
strong.
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