Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-12-11

blind Pveiadice the Governing Force
AtAoDn the Natton's Rsl~rs-


AtssoDn the Matters Rsl~rs-
Europe presents no spectacle more exs
traordiDary thau the contrast between
the nerve OF the Spanish people and
their iRcapacity in action. For 1S
mouths they have endeayored to con-
qmer ! reyolted colony 1000 miles
away. md have In ehe effort used and
consumed resources sach us il was hart
~ believed oHlside II Spain that they
could have called UP even TO resist To-
VaSion.
They have act ually forwarded 20 Cuba
10000 regular troops. sufficiently
equipped. n force yearly three times Us
great as that with which this country
met and quelled the Indian mHtiny of
1857, and pioge than three times as
great as the white garrison which holds
the lpdan empile, The army, sufficient,
one would thiuk, for q defensive wax
against France. accomplished nothing,
hut Lhg SparfSh statesmen lose Neither
heart ror hols. They are wholly un-
chtered by victory, they know that
their soldiers lie like ties, aud they
are told every week that the rich is
land is becoming desert, that three
Va
that the settlers are quitting in thou
sands. while those left behipd are ioIn-
ing the Insurgents, that the whole ex-
pens OF the island must be borne for
years by Spain. aNl that every month
increases the chance that the American
republic. with its limitleSs resources
.or war, viii Intervene; and still. with
Ienacity which EnglishineR cannot
but admire, they refuse 10 relax their
mold. BE the results what they may,
they will make 40 terms till the rebels
have submitted Internationally.
The assure between parties in Spain
* deeper than political fissure ever
was in this country, but upon this SUBJ
ject the parties act together. scarcely
differing even as to means, Pitt was
never iirmer than Senior Canovas, and
never better supported by packed
I parliament. which nevertheless repre-
sentS the dominant feeling of the coun-
! try. Ii the eonscripts die. the Spanish
premier sends more censcripts. If the
! peasants or the city mobs object 10
! their dispatch. both are s,lenccd by
/ an understanding appeal TO the military
/ law. which makes resistance 10 the con
! ScriptiOn one of the most deadly of of
lenses, II the Philippines rise in In
/ sun Tection. the premier offers to send
an army there also. even an army OF
cavalry, il that will be the army most
required. IF the people OF the United
] States muiter or threaten interference,
the premier ranSacks the world for
cruisers ready built, or builders who
will build quickly, giving enormous
prices, in two cQses S75O.0OO per ship
for the needed vessels, II the treasury
is harassed. he sells everything that is
aNailRble-monopolies to the Roths-
childs, privileges TO the railways, pref
crences ia the dealers in bonds. lie
even ventures TO leave the troops in the
ISLAND unioid. and for four months nc
soldier there has seen the color of coin
and has been fortunate if bread and
garlic have been served with any rcgu
arity, The one thing which Senol
Canosas will not do is to listen 10 pro
poSaIs for compromise, the time fol
which, indeed. has now at length paSset
awOy.-Lopdop- Spectator.