The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-16
Rambling Thoughts
BY MEMO"
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every State I'm the Union In this county this
will be found week by week in the columns OF
this paper only, as we have made arrange
| ments with the author Tor their exclusive
puolication.l
Allow me to continue and conclude
necessarily brief consideration Of Spain
ss decaying nation. In last weeks
Thoughts" the assertion was practically
made that nation must have some ideal
before it beyond the forcing OF creed or
the pling OF wealth. la both Of these
directions Spain has been at fault. Three
further enervating causes have been at
TAG GRANDEE SPIRIT.
2 For centuries after the destruction Of
the Roman Empire by tn, Goths and
Vandals, the human intellect was almost
benumbed Until the Renaissance aud
the Reformation a pail OF darkness was
over all; the mobiles being almost "a IN
{ aimed az their serfs, and the serfs being
utterly crushed by those Of nobler blood.
Humanity in Europe lay like giant
|
stimulation OF thought has caused the
great heart of the world To throb with
increasing power, till the life of com
mon humanity thrills, in large measure,
even those most separated by birth and
wealth Each age has had it's peculiar
characteristics, ours is the Peoples
Age" But against the tendency Of the
people c. think and act. hope and accom-
plish, the proud and stubborn spirit of
Spanish grandeeism has stood forth with
6erceness. Yet just as Canute by his
word could not hold the sea in subsection
nor Mre. Darlington sweep back the
waves with her broom. so no dynasty
or power, even boar with age aud crusted
with heroic deeds, can Withstand Success
fully, by narrow minded repression, the
rising tide Of human inspiration. II it
turn deaf ear to the cry OF the poor for
life aud liberty, for education, for hope,
| the cry will not die oIt, but its pleading
tone will be turned into the fierce and
iateful growl of cornered beast. Thus
has it been with Spain. Far more oran-
ganizad and dangerous than Nihlism in |
Russia. is Anarchsm in Spain. The
kingdom is thoroughly honey-rombed |
with the sentiment OF a lawless breaking |
down Of the government, that the men in |
power try constantly to divert public |
! thought from home affair, and are glad |
OF anything in foreign lands that will |
form a saf5 outlet for the combative |
spirit. They are under the hopeless ne
crsslty OF watching and guarding against
the home population AS thoroughly as
they " ould have TO watch an Invading |
army. | believe am safe in saying. not |
even excepting Russia, that no other |
nation in Europe but Spain is in this
anomalous condition. ltstands re gealed |
before the world as n nation that has |
not controlled the growth of hope and |
thought, but Withstood it Instead; with |
rhe inevitable disaster coming nearer |
every day.
G COLONIAL POLICY
of three or four centuries ago, when con !
slant tid'ngs OF new continents, wealth, |
etc. fired mems adventurous souls, the |
skirts OF no nations will be found entirely |
free from Innocent blood. With few |
notable exceptions, in spots, like Rhode |
l-lant under Williams, Pennsylvania |
under Penn and Maryland under Calvert, |
cruelty and illiberally have almost uni !
versally accompanied the work OF estab
FISHING a new colony, But gentler times |
have brought gentler methods; and var
ious nations seem now to vie with each |
other in the liberality and excellence OF
their colonial policies. Take England |
for an instance. It's illiberal treatment
oil its most valuable possession, now the |
United States, has entirely passed away;
so that at the present IL is practically
true that many small possessions In var.
ious parts are better ruled, better pros
pered, and stronger as dependencies than
they would be as separate governments.
The policy OF England and OF other atious
who t-y to rival her in colonizing activ-
ity, is TO look only for indirect results
from good government. Internal de-
velopment is aimed at with the conf
dent hope that the resulting prosperity
will react favorably to the home country
by reason OF increasing trade. etc. But
Spain policy has remained unchanged
while other nations have marched on
| ward. Az SAID in last weeks letter,
her colonies have always been regarded
az fair prey 10 be stripped OF every thing
valuable that was compact and trans
portable. Tue fierce greed Of Cortex and
Pizarro is apparently unchanged. WHAT
ever positions OF power were open for
filling, have seemed TO be regarded as the
rghtful heritage of the Spanish nobility
without any regard AZ to fitness, or the