Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-12-11
UNREASONABLE SPANISH PRIDE.
Blind Preiadice the Governing Force
Aanpa the Na,ion'e Raiere.

Blind Preludice the GOVERNING Force
AmaDa the Nations Rsiers.
Europe presents no spectacle more ex.
traortiinary shnu the coutr1st between
the nerve OF the Spanish people and
their incappeity in action. For 10
mouths they have endeayored 10 con-
qner revolted colony 1000 miles
away, and have In Clue effort used and
consumed resources sach us II was hart
~ believed outside If Spain that they
could have called up even to resist Ia
yasion. ~
They have actually forwareed 10 Cuba
100000 regular troops. sufficiently
equipped. e force nearly three times as
great as that with which this country
met and Quplled the Indian mutiny of
1887, aud more than three times as
great as the white garrison which holds
the lndian empile, The army, sufficient.
one would thiuk. for q defensive wax
against France. accomplished nothing,
hut thr Spacish statesmen lose neither
near, Ior hols. They are wholly un-
cmtred by victory, they know that
their soldiers die like tiles, and they
are told every week that the rich is
land is becoming q desert, that three
iourths OF it is going out of eultivatioe.
that the settlers are quitting in thou
sands. while those left behind are joins
ine the Insurgents, that the whole en-
penSS OF the island must lie borne for
Years by Spain. and that every month
increases the chance that the American
tepubic. with its limitleSs resources
;or war. Will Intervene; and still, with
Il irnacity which Englishinea cannot
hui admire, they refuse TO relax their
mold. BE the results what they may,
they will make ru terms till the rebels
have submitted Internationally.
The issure between parties in Spain
is deeper than Il political fissure ever
was in this country, but upon this sub,
Ject the parties act together, scarcely
differing even as to means, Pitt WAS
never frmer than Senior Canovas, and
never better supported by packed
parliament. which nevertheless repre-
sents The dominant feeling of the coun-
try. If the conscripts die, the Spanish
premier sends more censcripts. If the
peasants or the city mobs object 10
their dispatch, both are s.lenccd by
an unhrsitating appeal to the military
law. which makes resistance to the con-
scription one OF the most deadly of Of.
lenses, II the philippines rise in IN
SUI rection. the premier offers to send
an army there ALSO. even Sln army of
cavalry, il that will be the army most
required. If the people OF the United
States Inutter or threaten interference,
the premier ransucks the world for
cruisers ready built, or builders who
will build quickly, giving enormous
prices. in two cases $75O.0OO per ship,
for the needed vessels, If the treasury
is liarassed. lie cells everything that is
-moropolics to the Roths-
childs, privileges to the railways. pref
crenccs Ia the dealers in bonds. He
even ventures to leave the troops in the
island nIoid, 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 rcgu.
arity, The one thing which Senior
CaNovas will not do is to listen 10 pro-
posals for compromise, the time for
which, indeed. has now at length passed
away.-l.ondon- Spectator.