Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1898-06-09
HOT PHILIPPE ON SPAIN.
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many respects grander than she
herself has ever possessed. She
first converted the natives, then
she enslaved them, and then she
annihilated them. The Bishop of
Cbiapa asserts that in his time
100000 of these natives were
"exterminated."
She owned, robbed, and ruled
all South America, except the
Portuguese colony, now Brazil,
all Central Americs, and by far
the best portion of North Amer
lea and the West India Islands.
The grandest possessions ever held
by nation Of any age were hers.
But where is this mighty
Spanish world nowp She en-
shaved and slaughtered most of
the natives, married, mixed up
and mingled with the remainder,
an | then taxed and robbed her
dusky progeny into revolt and
revolution. The naughty "Cas-
lillian" held the authority, and
ruled those he despised with in
science and rapacity. Look at
the map of South and Central
America, and all those nations"
were once the loyal colonies of
Spain, AID driven to revolt by the
same tyranny that led to the pres
ept war in Cuba-her last piece
of America dirt"
Que after another, by misrule,
plumber aud insolence, Spain
drove her splendid colonies into
revolution, and one after another
until Ignorant colonials" sue
ceeded in freeing themselves from
this gentle Christian mother. She
is the smother of nations" but
what are the nations even now, as
the curse of her vile history still
holds them in thrall? No Spanish.
American country has yet demon
1trateJ lis ability for self rule, but
in every experiment in the new
world, the inability of Spain to
rule has been very clearly demon
strated
Naughty Spain is anchored to
the putrid past. She has sat on
the fence and watched with super
cilious contempt the train IF pro
gross pass She remembers every
thing and learns nothing. She
has retained her insolent pride
and her faith; she knows the vir-
tues of the saints, and the soorh,
ing influence of The stiletto. She
has ever been sensitive on
questions of "honor," but in ques.
tons Of justice she scorns to in
quire.
Iu the same batch of cables the
other day there was declaration
that though Spain might be
Crushed" she would not be dis
hpuo1ed;' aad another stated that
Blapco had appropriated the pro-
visions sent by my countrymen to
feed her starving people. Honor!
indeed.
Ia the face of all these historic
facts, the existence of numerous
nations born of revolution through
Spanish misrule, the Cardinal is
deaf, and though Spain is but re-
pea,ing the old, old story, he as
serts that, in the evidence upon
which my country so re
lucantly draws the sword
there is not one particle of
truth" Truly, L fail to under
stand the Cardinal; surely he is
not Influenced by religious con-
siderations, for to save Christian
agony we called these naughty
rufiians down.
But why is Cardinal Moran so
keenly panied over British sym
pathy for America ? Can it be
because Spain is nearer Rome
that the Republic offends him ?
Perish the thought.
Amid the despairing walls of
revolutionary Cuba, and the cries
from withered lips to the mute
heavens for bread, justice cried to
God for a champion, and my
country hurried to the rescue,
with no apology to anybody.
No warming" will deceive edu-
Gated Britons, for they know that
the reactionary sentiment in Eu-
rope is unit against them. That,
in fact, the loyal Royalists of the
old regime hate Britain as cordi.
ally as they do her children over
the seas. Under Britain's Crown