The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-01-21

lions seem now to vie with each other
in the liberality and excellence of
their colonial policies. Take England
for an instance. Its illiberal treat
ment of its most valuable possessions,
now the United States, has entirely
passed away; so that at the present
it is practically true that many small
possessions in various parts are better
ruled, better prospered, and stronger
as dependencies than they would be
as separate and Independent govern
ments. The policy of England and
of other nations who try to rival her
in colonizing activity, is to look only
for indirect results from good govern
ment. Internal development is amid
it with the confident hope that the
resulting prosperity will react favor
ably to the home country by reason
of increasing trade etc. But Spain's
policy has remained unchanged while
other nations marched onward. As |
said in last weeks letter her colonies
have always been regarded as fair
prey to be stripped of every thing
valuable that was compact and trans
portable. The fierce greed of Cortez
and Pizarro is apparently unchanged.
Whatever positions OF power were
open for filling, have seemed to be re-
| garded as the rightful heritage of the
Spanish nobility without any regard
as to fitness, or the benefit of the
country they ruled over. Indirect
gain from the development of Il col
ony has never been regarded with
such favor as the direct results by
squeezing out taxes and farming out
productive positions. This is simply
another evidence of the mad spirit OF
self-distruction that has possessed
Spain. The inevitable result has
been the loss one by one since the
end of last century of the very jewels
of her diadem of empire.
! AGRICULTURAL UNPROGRESSIYE
NESS: About the beginning of the
10Th century Spain possessed Of a re
ligious fury very adroitly mingled
with greed, expelled the Jews and the
Moors and contiscated their property.
By so doing inflicted as severe q ma
tional injury to itself as France did
when it drove out the HugenotS, strip
ping itself of its best farmers and me-
chanics, tradesmen and merchants.
In 1909, if my memory serves me
right, Spain gave a further fatal blow
to itself by eXpelling all the Chris
tainted MOOrs. AS a result up to the
present, agriculture, the necessary
basis of national prosperity, is very
undevelOped. The most primitive
instrument are still in use and great
regions that the MOors had made
productive have fallen back to wild
ness. Shortsightedness characterized
I ner abroad. When PizarrO landed
in Peru the strip of land fifty and
more miles wide stretching from the
ocean front to the foothills of the
Andes, supported Il population OF
about 700 600, The patient Peruvians
has made this sandy desert blossom
like the rose by vast irrigation works
In some cases they had constructed
aquducts hundreds of miles long and
even pierced mountains in order that
this particular region might be
watered. Now the desert is again
triumphant. The conquerOr seek
ing those things alone that could be
gained by the sword, neglected the
real essentials of prosperity, until
now only a few thousand exist where
hundreds of thousands were once
prosperous. The same lamentable
neglect was shown in Mexico. The
strange creatures whom MOnteZuma
ruled were exceedingly progressive
in their way. But their works and
plans and agricultural gains were
scattered to the winds by their blood
thirsty conquerors. Now the spirit
less Peon seems sunken beyond all
hope of revival.
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