The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-04-19
THE SPANIAHD.
what Was He. What Is He. what
Has He Done.


Has He Done.
Editor Morning News: From the Fifth to
the Eighth century of our era, the Goths
were the rulers of Spain, and gave life
and energy 10 its original people. Then
came the Arab Moor conquests, and for
seven hundred years, to the latter part of
the fifteenth century, these peoples were
the ruling powers, and it was during this
period was laid the foundation of that
learning and enterprise from which came
the discovery of America.
Soon as the Moorish animus was at an
end the country was given over to the
darkness of the inquisitions; child Of
fanatcism and superstition, which then
and still contends against light and learn
ing. No other people of this Christian era
ever submitted to such rule although
Romish, Calvin, and Puritan fanatics have
sought for control with sword and curse
The motive power which discovered
America came from Arabian sources-it is
time that after the domination of these
people, Spain sent out freebooters and rob-
bers, who overrun and plumber the West
Indies and the coast of South America on
the Atlantic and Pacific sides, but 1t was
a contest of mail clad horesmen with fire
and bows on foot, and of course, the re-
suit was always the same Behind the
mailed men with fire arms and sword
came the emissaries of the inquisition, and
what the soldier did not steal the Church
did. What country or people that was
overrun by this combination did not re-
trograde? Compare the Aztec mongrel and
Peruvian, as we know them to-day, with
the pure originals, as known by the works
yet undestroyed; and we shall find the
course has been downward. In no case has
the Spanish influence elevated any people.
They seem to have been especially given
to miscegenation and where they found a
pure race of autochthones they invariably
leave a mongrel people, and as ethnology
shows clearly, all mongrels inherit only the
vices of all parents and the virtues of
neither Thus them the record of the Span
ish people showing that they stand al the
foot among all varieties of the type of ia
phetic or Aryan peoples, what can we look
for with a cross of this strain on the In
dian, the negro, or the Cinnamon? Just
what we find to-day in Cuba and other
Central and South American countries-an
inextricable tumble of races when has not
and cannot, make a step IN advance 1t is
an undeniable fact that no country in
which the mongrel element prevails and
has rule has shown any capacity for self
government or made any advance in pow
er or prosperity. Soon as the hand of an
autonomous ruler is withdrawn. the va
rious species of hybrid go to fighting with
each other, and it is a Kilkenny cat war.
OF all mixed breeds, the Cubans are per-
haps the most mixed and one may well
inquire for which variety of these mon
grels is our 'Brer" Jinge's soul in travail
There is small fraction of Creoles of our
own original type, but they are not by any
means the ruling element, and with free
Cuba" their lot would not be a happy
one, because they would be ruled by their
interiors. just as the pot house carpet bag
ger al one time sought to rule this Anglo
Saxon Southern people by aid of a hybrid
element. Why then are we of the South
| especially, vexing our souls over The Cuba
| question? Can any one tell? "Aryan."