Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-11-08
UNREASONABLE SPANISH PRIDE.
Blind Prejudice the Governing Force
 Among the Nations Rulers.

UNREASONABLE SPANISH BhtDE. Blind Prejudice the Governing Force
 Among the Nations Rulers.
 Europe presents no spectacle more eX. traordinary than the contrast between the nerve of the Spanish people and their incapaeity in action. For 1d months they have endeavored to con quer a reyolted colony 4,000 miles away, and have in the effort used and consumed resources such as it was hard ly believed outside of Spain that they could have called up even to resist in vasion.
 They have actually forwarded to Cuba 210,00o regular troops, sufficiently equipped, force nearly three times as great as that with which this country met and que1led the Indian mutiny of 1857, and more than three times as great as the white garrison which holds She Indian empire. The army, sufficient, one would think, for q defensive war against France, accomplished nothing, but the Spanish statesmen lose neither heart for hope. They are wholly un- cheered by victory, they know that their soldiers die like flies, and they gre told every week that the rich is- land is becoming a desert that three fourths of it is going out of cultivation, that the settlers are quitting ill thou sands, while those left behind are ioin- ing the insurgents, that the whole eX- penses of the island must be borne for years by Spain, and that every month increases the chance that the American republic, with its limitless resources Sor war, will intervene; and still, with I tenacity which Englishmen cannot but admire, they refuse to relax their hold. Be the results what they may, they will make no terms till the rebels have submitted internationally.
 The Assure between parties in Spain is deeper than political Assure ever WAS in this country, but upon this sub ject the parties act together, scarcely differing even as to means. Pitt was never tirmer than Senor Canovas, and never better supported by a packed parliament, which nevertheless repre- sents the dominant feeling of the eoun- try. If the eonseripts die, the Spanish premier sends more conscripts. If the peasants or the city mobs object to their dispatch, both are silenced by an unhesitating appeal to the military law, which makes resistance to the con scription one of the most deadly of of lenses. If the Philippines rise in in- su1rection, the premier offers to send an army there also, even an army of cavalry, if that will be the army most required. If the people of the United States mutter or threaten interference, the premier ransaeks the world for cruisers ready built, or builders who will build quickly, giving enormous prices, in two cases S750,000 per ship, for the needed vessels. If the treasury is harassed. he sells everything that is vailable-monopolies to the Roths- ehilds, privileges to the railways, pref erences to the dealers in bonds. He even ventures to leave the troops in the island unpaid, and for four months no soldier there has seen the color of coin, and has been fortunate if bread and garlic have been served with any regu- Iarity. The one thing which Senor Canoyas will not do is to listen to pro posals for compromise, the time for winch, indeed, has now at length passed away.-London Spectator.