Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1898-09-10
WHAT SPAIN HAS LOST.
.ER STORY or TYRANNY AND SHAME
NEARING ITS FINAL CHAPTER.
There IL Not Much LEFT Of Kingdom
which Once Rivaied Ancient Rome IN
the Extent of Her Po--e-sions-fhe
Future seems Dark For Her.

Future seems Dark For Her.
The losses Of Spain In the war which
aas lust ended IN her defeat cannot be
estimated for some time to come, OBJ
serves the Atlanta Constitution. The
yictors do not yet know the full ex-
tent of their conquests, and they have
not decided how much of their newly
sc1uired territory they will find II 70
their interest TO hold as their own.
The red and yellow flag will dissp- 4
near from the West Indies, from one .
II the Ladrones; from Manila, and 4
perhaps from the entire Philippine
yroup. The conQuerOrs will now ex-
anime these choice job lots of islands.
arranged in nicely assorted punches,
and take their pick.
Spain Is IN hard luck. The mills
Of the gods have been rather slow IN
her case. but they have finished their
work at last, and there Is not much
/ left Of a kingdom which once rlvaied
ancient Rome in the extent of her
possessions. 4 little more than three
hundred years ago, when the second
! Philip mounted the throne. his fleets
and armies were the most powerful m
the world. and his colonies cIrcled the
globe Both North and South America
practically belonged 20 Spain. Even
acentury later Samuel Johnson asked.
"Are there no regions yet unclaimed
10y SPAIN"
Bv discovery. conquest and mar
rage the Spanish rulers rapidly &C
quired territory, but wherever their
generals pitched their tents desolation
followed. In less than forty years
after they discovered San Domingo
IFS population dwindled from 1000.
600 10 10000 In Mexico and IN
: Peru, Cortez and Plzarro waSed q war
of determination.
Before Philip died be had lost vas,
tracts in north Africa. In the next
fifty years Spain lost Burgundy. Naples,
7 Sicily. Milan. the Netherlands. Me
: lacca. Cevlon. Java. Portugal, Holland,
Brabant. Flanders. Roussillon and Car
darue. and IN the same period she sur
: rendered her control of the seas &
b northern Europe After this Gibrai
tar. the Woatka sound settlements a.,
San Domingo were given up. LOuisl
, ana went next, followed by Trinidad
: Florida. Mexico Venezuela, Colombia
Ecuador. Peru. Bolivia, Chile. Argen
, tina. Banda Oriental. Paraguay. Pata
, gonna. Guatemala. Honduras, Nicara
! qua. san Salvador, Hayu and numer
Gus smaller possession
And now Porto Rico Is ceded 20 tia
= United States. Cuba Is freed from th
Spanish yoke. and II We want ley
. dozen or a few hundred tne islands d
!. different quarters of the globe We hav
=. only 70 say the word.
= No statistician would be bold enoug
20 guess ut the value OF these bits q
land. but il is estimated that they az
Is worth not Ear from 81 900. 900, 600. {
l. course. We should take into consider.
ton the cost of the war % the Unite
= States when we finally decile upo
&c the disposition Of the conquered terri
tory.
IT present we have no dehni
$ figures. Il is not enough 70 81
n that the Government has spel
D 500. 0O0. 900 for the army and nav
: in the past three months, and VI
have 70 spend hundreds of million
e. more IN the next year or two IL co
trolling tue new countries under OF
= haS. Among our expenses are q
interest on Government bonds, q
loss in the productive labor Of q
volunteers, and then there are 9th
= ircidentals Altogether, saying not
ing about pensions. 1t Is likely that
few years from now II viii be know
that the war cost Us about 81, OOs
600, 900
1t is a fact that the geographic
have very hazy ideas about soi
countries. They do not know the nu
nv Der Of islands IN the Philippine
he Some say 400, while others say 2OC
nd Many Of these islands, however, q
wv very small, and great deal Of tn
ev area Is not arabic. The interior
1 Cuba is a sealed book TO the geog
4 L piers They say that it has ne'
dia ! been thoroughly explored. Maps 1
nd, not always reliable. Our Govei
ses ment maps show that the LOuisia
hit. cession extended beyond the Roc
for Mountains and included the no
2rn- Pacific States 1t is only recen
that an order has been issued TO c
rect these maps. Ii we know so
tie Of our own country, how can
be expected 10 know all about Gu