The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-08-18
SPAIN Is APATHETlC.
A Warning Sounded for the Sarasta
Ministry.

Ministry.
London, Aug. 1.-THE Times CORE
spondent at Madrid says: The philo
sophie resignation of the educated
classes n the fatal apathy of the
common classes is remarkable.
FL Tempo. in an article commonly at
tributed to Senior Silvela. sounds a
warning note which is attracting much
attention. After quoting a passage
from Isaiah and expressing regret that
In Spain there is no man like the He
brew prophets of old to reproach the
rulers with their hardness of heart. the
writer laments the fact tina there is no
perceptible agitation in the public
mind and movement among the people.
A short time ago. the article saws. I
was feared that foreign complications
might produce Internal disturbances.
threatening the very life Of the nation.
Now the contrary result is apprehend-
ed. The nation has been SO chIoro-
formed that ii seems IN danger Of col
lapse from weakness of the hearts ac-
ton. No matter where the doctor puts
his finger he finds no pulse. If this
continues, decomposition and death
must ensue.
The war with the "ungrateful sons of
Cuba failed to stir national sentiment
and even the struggle with an agrees
slVe foreign power with its disasters
and territorial losses hardly stirred
the surface OF popular sentiment. Snain
is expelled from vast regions which
she discovered, conquered and civilized
without even the patriotic consolation
of occasional military success. Yet one
remark no spasm of national ron
science, and so great is the general in
difference that a large section of the
public regards with mpat the
press censorship which prevents the
newspapers from disturbing their com
repose.
All this indicates too clearly a pro-
found and regretable change I'm the ma
tional character, and it becomes the
duty of those who have the direction
public affairs to find a remedy for
the dangerous disease which threatens
undermine the vital forces of the
body polite. So far this modern emu
of the Hebrew rophe is clear
enough in admonitions to his hard
and stiff-necked fellow coun-
trymen, but when he comes to recon-
mend a remedy he is not quite as clear
practical as could be expected.
1T is necessary he says without
being deferred by the sorrows. the sac
rifices and risks of party dissensions.
TO raise the moral sense of the central
government. Those will find themselves
who imagine that public order
md the stability of the one will be as
'ured when the republicans do not
shout in the towns and the Carlfsts do
not rise in the mountains: when on
,ers do not conspire in barracks and
he country does not object to be mysti-
led in election. If n new course is not
iteered very o we will run the risk
II condemning ourselves to death as "A
lation and some one will he soon found
o execute the capital sentence"
If this authoritative utteranCc was
lot actually written, ii was at least
anctioned by Senior Silvela. and II is
egarded in many quarters as a semi
fficial announcement that the cnn-
ervative party Intends to abandon the
ttitude of benevolent neutrality which
as been maintained toward Senior Sa-
asia and his cabinet since the COM
1encement of the war. Such seems.
indeed, to be the only logical inference
D be drawn from the article as a whole
ut the Spanish politicians, even those
are most logical i'm their dis
purses. are not always logical i'm their
If not a party declaration Of !
it is at least a friendly hint TO /,
enor Sagasta that. in the opinion OF !
ne conservative party. the time has :
for the re-establishment Of the !
guarantee and the con- /,
oking of the cortes. ,