The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-26


movement remains mistaken by the
skeptics' unbelief
SO with him who believes that a
divine Providence watches over the
affairs of nations. guides their des-
tiny and appoints to each its mission.
He may not be able always to point
out to a hooking skepticism just what
divine purpose this or that nation has
| accomplished, but he remembers that
in the mighty evolution that God is
working out in the universe, the life of
nation constitutes but minute step,
and is no more and accomplishes no
more perhaps in it's relation to the
whole purpose of God. than a single
touch of an artists brush in the pro-
duction of landscape. AS one I'M
| skilled in art and unable to see the
landscape. yet seeing that one stroke
cannot tell just the Importance of
it. or the relation it would bear to the
whole picture, so one seeing but an in
finitely small part of Gods great pur-
pose, and that small part as through
a glass darby, small wonder if he
existence Of this nation. tell what it
has accomplished, as part of the pur-
poses of the Diety, or say why 1t
passes away: but that its existence
was brought about by divine ordina-
ton: that it accomplished something
to bring about Gods evolution of
things before passing away he has
every reason for believing.
We desire to point out in the present
Instance, the illustration of the general
truth asserted above in the case OF
Spain in its relations to America
1t is the chief glory of Spain that
under her auspices and patronage the
western world was discovered. About
that time she ranked as among the
first powers Of Europe. and had a career
open to her the like of which had been
given to no other nation on earth BY
right OF discovery and afterwards by
right of occupancy Spain had claims
upon the greater part of the new
world. There is lying before US a
map showing the possessions of Spain
in the Americas in 1795-only one hun
dred years ago. According to that
map Spain owned all of South Amer
lea. Central America, Florida. all the
West Indies. a narrow strip along the
north of the Gulf of Mexico, all OF
Mexico. and all that part of the Uni
ted States lying west of the MISSISSIPPI
pi and as far north as the Canada
boundary line An empire which in
extent and resources was beyond the
widest dreams of ancient conquerors
and to Christian power disposed to
reign in righteousness and deal Justly
such a chance to bless mankind and
win honest glory as never before was
accorded to any earthly kingdom.
Yet how miserably Spain failed! Out
Of all that mighty domain which one
little century ago she ruled as sole
| master, she retains her hold, and that
precariously, upon but one little war
swept island, Cuba! Piece by piece
her American possessions have been
wrenched away from her. Her own
| children have resented her authority,
| and driven it's representatives from
! the land they ruled in her name. Is it
not marvellous? So amply rewarded
for becoming the patron of Gods
appointed servant to discover the new
world, so signaIly stripped of all that
was given her-for what? Read it in
the following page from Draper. The
priests of Spain denied to the people
they found in America Adamic de-
now
The lust for gold was only too ready
| to find it's justification in the obvious
conclusion; and the Spaniards, with ap-
palling atrocity, proceeded to act to-
ward these unfortunates as though
they did not belong to the human race
| Already their lands and goods had
been taken from them by apostolic
authority. Their persons were next
seized, under the text that the heather
are given as an Inheritance, and the
uttermost parts of the earth for a pos
! session. 1t was one unspeakable out
rage, one unutterable ruin, without
discrimination of age or sex. Those
who died not under the lash in a tro-
pical sun died in the darkness of the
mine. From sequestered sand-banks,
where the red famingo fishes in the
grey of the morning; from fever
j
gloom of impenetrable forests: from
hiding-places in the clefts of rocks, and
the solitude of invisible caves; from the
eternal SHOWS of the Andes, where
there was no witness but the all-seeing
sun, there went up to God a cry of
human despair. By millions upon mil
lions. whole races and nations were
remorselessly cut off The Bishop of
Chiapa affirms that more than fifteen
millions were exterminated in his time
From Mexico and Peru a civilization
that might have instructed Europe was
crushed out Is it for nothing that
Spain has been made a hideous skele-
ton among living nations. q warning
spectacle to the world? Had not her
punishment overtaken her, men would
have surely said. 'There is no retribu-
ton, there is no Godi" 1t has heer
her evil destiny to ruin two civiliza-
tions, Oriental and Occidental, and tc
be ruined thereby herself. With cir
cumstances of dreadful barbarity she
expelled the Moors, who had become
children of her soil by as long q resi-
dence as the Nornans have had in
England from William the Conouerol
to our time. In America she DESTROYED
races more civilized than herself. Elk.
puIsion and EMIGRATION have deprived
her of her best blood her great cities
have sunk into insigrifcence. ard
towns that once had more than a mil.
lion of inhabitants can now only show
a few scanty thousands.
Fight on Gomez and Maceo. wrench
from Spain the last province she holds
in the western hemisphere, for she by
her cruelty and injustice has forfeited
her right to every foot of land in the
new world Fight on-offended Justice