The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-05-22
men and fought the whole Spanish

men and fought the whole Spanish
fleet with his one ship?
l should u myself the coward il 1
left them, my Lord Howard.
To these Inquisition dogs N the dev-
ildoms of Spain.
What said the sick and wounded on
board the ship Revenge?
They blest him i'm their pain that they
were not left in Spain.
To the thumbscrew and the stake, for
the glory of the Lord.
The higher intelligence and the cause
of freedom were in the little ships
manned by free sea rovers that dashed
SPANS hopes and set her on her four
hundre years course down hill.
Coincident with the defeat of the
Armada was the effort of Philip III.
and Alva, of evil memory. to hold the
Spanish Netherlands. Alva was the
Butcher Weyler of h a day. He called
horror to his aid, but brave people. re-
solved to win freedom or die. faced
him with high courage. The Spanish
Netherlands ceased to be Spanish in
1909. That was blow No. . to Spain; 1t
was an inestimable victory for liberty,
for political liberty and 6pr freedom
of thought. Compare free Holland to-
day with Spain. which enslayed her.
and one sees again that the right was
triumphant.
The brief period of brilliant achieve
ment had brought Portugal into the
Spanish dominion. In 1910, 90 years
after the downfall Of the Armada, Por-
tusal regained its independence. That
was disaster No. 3. The fourth blow
fell when H%ispaniola became Hayti
and "A French possession in 1877.
still Spain was a great nation. 1t
claimed most of the New World. 1t
WAS "A mighty nnkNap There nrnGa tho
war of the succession, to determine
whether she should be ruled by Aus
trian kings or Bourbon, In hat war
Gibraltar fell into the hands of Great
Britain, where il has remained. Span
iards are accustomed to say Yes,
Gibraltar is temporarily held by Great
Britain. But we AVE Ceuta." Ceuta
is the famous military prison in Africa.
Such is Spanish pride.
Came i'm 1875 the conquest of Naples.
There seemed to be a m~omentary re-
yival of the power of Spain. But the
day was coming when the old order
was To pass away in every nation of
Europe, and the might of the people
be felt. This period was ushered I'm
for Spain by war with England in 1852
and in 1896. Spain had now fallen to
"A mere pendant, "A second rate power,
for whose alliance France and Eng
land fought.
Francs won at first. There were
spanish ships with the French fleet in
h battle of Trafalgar, and these We're
beaten. of course. The touch of
came when the French
entered Spain in 1906. They found a
foolish king. a silly prince. a corrupt
queen, whose lover. Goday. practically
ruled the country. They forced
charles TO abdicate in favor of Prince
Ferdinand.
Then oilowed a brief fash of the
old spirit. for the s~paniards are 10
cowards. The proud people rebelled.
They fought against France. not with
brains and organization, for they had
neither, but with the logged deter
mination of Wild animals at bay. 1t
was the period when the Maid of Sar-
agossa gave Spain a heroine like Joan
OF Are. in devotion. II not in achieve
ment.
Napoleon was in the end driven out.
but " was by Wellington and the Brit
ism army, not by spanish wit or force.
spain was restored TO King Ferdinand
ana went on In its bad old ways. a blot
upon the 18th century. Thereafter its
history OF disaster flowed in two paral-