Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-05-12
THE WRECK OF SPAIN.
Industries Are Paraiyzcd, and Starvation
Confronts the People.

Industries Are ParRlyzed, and starvation
Confronts the People.
London, May 10.--The Biarritz corre-
spondent of The Daily Mail, dilating ON
Spain's internal troubles, says:
but for the necessity of getting the
war credits voted in the cortes Senior
Sagasta would have decreed the suspen-
sion of the constitutional guarantees,
thus placing the whole country under
military jurisdiction. The difficulties fer
the poor people are worse than those OF
the government. The latter, by various
expedients, can raise money; the former
are unable to obtain either food or en-
ployment. The wages Of the lahorers
are too small to buy sufficient food for
themselves and their families. In the
mining regions Of Estremadura and
other places the miners are nearly fam
ished.
Meanwhile spectators maze corners
to raise the price of food and industry
is paralyzed. In the Belearic islands
thousands or workmen are living upon
aims Catalonia, though the richest re-
gion in Spain, has suffered most deeply
from the loss of the Cuban market. The
Catalonian manufacturers recently tried
to place their goods in the Philippine
islands. They were beginning to sue
coed, and their exports to Manila and
Iloilo We're increasing rapidly. This
promising condition of things has been
blighted by the war. To the Catalan
manufacturers there remain foreign
markets only in Marocco and the South
American republics, and commercial re-
latlons with these are not yet fully de-
| veloped. 4
1.-THE warehouses are filled up to the
| ceiling with goods which will have to
remain there till the war is over and
| thousands of worlsmen, famished with
| hunger, will easily become the prey Of
| political agitators and complicate the
social and political situation OF the
| country. The work of the political agi-
| tator is daily becoming more manifest
as the plight of the people becomes
more hopeless.
1.-THE Republicans declare that the mo-
ment the telegraph announces a new
| disaster for the Spanish arms the great
mass of the country will rise and sweep
away everything. The Carlists say that
/ IL there are fresh disasters they Will
seize power. Therefore the key to the
situation is war news. The Carlists are
| we'll organized. The Republicans are
divided by differences of programmes
| anu TlNhltleS VI llcll leduiib iiieh'
That portion which is capable Of active
practical work has endeayored to set
the support of at least part of the
army, without which they know they
can hardly expect to succeed. So far
they have not succeeded in forming an
alliance with the military. who, they
say, have imposed such conditions that
the negotiations have had to be broken
Off.
"They put much faith in Wcyler hut
he is simply waiting for his own chance
and will venture nothing unless abso-
lutely assured Of success. The report
that weyler has arrived at an under
standing with Marshal Campos is un-
true. They are not even on speaking
terms The nation as a whole is. how,
ever, indifferent to the struggles of par
ties, for it trusts none of them"
A dispatch to The Daily Mail from
Hongkong says a communication from
Manila asserts that the Spaniards are
stlll arrogant and not likely TO surren'
der until the city is blown to pieces. A
telegraph operator has gone with tbs
McCulloch to see what can be done with
the cable. .