Evening journal., 1898-07-27
SPAIN is DISUNITED.
Barcelona and Catalonia Do Not
Like the War.
The separRtist Tendency Has BeeR
strongly Manifested-SOmeth
About the Lives OF the
People.


People.
In Barcelona itself some 10000
French people are permanently settled.
A rather contemptuous hatred Of
CASTLE, and jealousy Of her perpetual
interference by officials and military
law, are accepted things. The Galatians
have ancient laws and customs Of their
own. They do not think Of separa-
tlon or union with France, but the
demand for autonomy-fors self-govern-
ment in all but foreign affairs-is per-
haps as strong as in ireland. And
Catalonia is beyond comparison the
richest province Of Spain-the most
progressive, and the most Industrious
in the modera sense.
peculiar proof Of this sepaiatiss
tendency was lately given when the
Madrid government called upon the
manufacturers Of Barcelona to con-
tribute voluntarily about 500, ,oO0 for the
defense Of their town. The manufac-
turers replied that already they paid
most Of the expenses for government
and defense in Spain, and that II the
Yankee admiral came they would in
ylte him TO dinner. The patriotic sub
scription yielded hardly anything. The
whole town is indeed heartily sicl, Of
the war. They regard It merely as a
continuation Of the Cuban war, which
has paralyzed business for three years
past. What terms they would agree to
of course l cannot say; but since the
demand for cottons in Cuba and the
Philippines entirely ceased at least 80
factories stand altogether idle, ami the
rest are doing little more than half
time. In one of the largest which
visited, the manager told me they used
to employ 1900 hands daily. Now less
than half the machines are in work.
but they try TO keep their hands from
starvation by employing them In shifts
of alternate weeks. Coal Is very dear
being bought up by railways and ships
of war There Is enough raw cotton
for the time, but not for long. Tn,
big factories have been doing half-tim,
or less for six months past. AS nigh
be supposed, the workpeople are livins
pretty close, and food, especially meat
is terribly dear besides.
To the ordinary miseries Of factorl
existence Is added the horror Of III,
Cuban service. The rich man buy
exemption for his child. lie pays some
times $500, sometimes $3.50. and his sol
is free. But from neOrly' every work
ing family at least one has been taken
drilled and sent TO Cuba, probably 4
die. Wealth never exercised a NOR
shameful privilege or a crueler tyranny
Do you suppose the poor do not motto
il? One Of the finest Of the auarchis
hymns IN Barcelona tells OF youn
workman taken from his home and &c
ing with his drOft. His mother erie
horribly. A wealthy youth who ba
} bought exemption cheers tho departin
troops and bids them fight well for th
glory of their race.
barcelona 10 reputed ono Of the mos
7 turbulent and revolutionary cities @
: the world. Yet IL Is outwardly quie
= now. Tho state of siege is very strict
, Soldiers are everywhere. At presen
there L. not q sign OF resistance. hardl
OF tolnDlulul. ABOUT dNu uunItulkl
have been exiled. When first the trut
= of the tortures In Montjuioh was estat
r lished, when it was known that five me
had been shot because one poor creI
ture in the extremity of his suffering
] had repeated any evidence asked q
him, there were some In the town wh
z said it was no matter how anarchist
Z were treated. No one dares 10 say tha
D now. The execration of the torturer
Z is universal. The abomination blacl
c ems the memory OF Canovus and has &c
] him the name of butcher It has gon
70 TO increase the long debt Of hatred I
. CASTLE, and perhaps that may be pal
e. in time. But for the present all is quis
z and nothing is done. though it is pei
/ fectly well known that the trial Of th
r surviving torturers, still nominally pre-
$ ceeding In Madrid, will be dragged o
T. till all is forgotten. or end in some non
@ inal penalty.-London Chronicle.