The times., 1897-08-10

in power was doing everything within
its power To encourage the application
OF this remedy. Weyler's success was
80 marked in the Barcelona affair that he
was sent TO Cuba TO conduct The war
there What he has done in that island
we know only too well
IF, as the Spanish say, this was the act
Of on Anarchist, the oppression Of the peo-
pie has gradually persuaded this class of
her population that the oppressor should
be removed, and from the conviction to the
action is but q single step. Weyler might
have been singled out, but, instead of the
| tool, who only too willingly carried out
| his instructions, the slayer has gone TO
the fountainhead, and the prime minister
is dead.
''The political results OF the assassin s
bullet may be reasoned out, if not predicted.
| II looks as if the government was in pre-
cisely the position in which it was when
| snort time ago the Liberals withdrew from
the CoTtez and refused to associate with
| tie Conservatives That was as near Sc
| cession as it was possible to go. The
| trouble WAS bridged over, however, and
Canovas, with a new ministry, retained in
power. BY an accident Canovas has been
removed and n new ministry must come
into power.
1T is hardly probable that with the
Liberals FESTIVE as they are, the Queen
| can secure a Conservative leader to take
| the place of Canoyas The party he repre-
sented has hung 10 the government with
slender cord, and now that the leader is
dead, ii would seem that the opposition
must take it's place. and that Sagasta is It's
logical leader He has experience: he
was prime minister Lefore; be represents
q policy antagonistic TO that of Canovas,
and. in my Judgment. the people viii
demand him.
There are several reasons why this
would Re done. In a country like the
United States. were an assassin to take the
life of our leader as in the ca Sc Of Lincoln
OF Garfield, the people would be solidifiel
ami woulG be drawn to the policies of the
man thus stricken down, but the conditions
are different in Spain, vastly different.
Here, as members of opposing parties, we
may differ on questions Of policy, but in
Spain the points of difference enter the
very existence of the people themselves.
"The reasantry has been ground under
an iron heel; the Anarchists and friends
and relatives OF the thousands who felt
ernmcnt in connection with the Barcelona
affair; the thousands more whose brothers,
sons, fathers and relatives have been
| conscnpted and sent to Cuba or the Philip
pines to fight the hopeless battle OF Spain:
these ana innumerable Others blame the
existing government and Will clamor for
a change. The Queen Regent, proud
Austrian that she is, viii be compelled to
grant 1t and Sagasta viii take the pre-
miership.
..lf Sagasta thus becomes prime minister
there Will be a new order of thin gs in Cuba,
| If sagasta shows the wisdom that he has
exhibited in the trying days of the past, he
will recall Weyler and send Campos to
Cuba. Weyler would not so to Spain until
matters there have quieted bit, and the
people are inclined to forget his recent
atrocities both there and in Cuba.
1.-THE butchery has caused as much suf-
fering in Spain as in Cuba, and in the
present temper Of the people he would not