The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-07-27

| embark with her son and daughters ii
July. on the flagship of the squadron OF
evolution, to visit successfully Bilbao
/ Santander, Gijon, Corunna, the arsena
| and docllyard of Ferrol Vigo, going
| later on in the autumn to Cadiz, Sar
| Fernando and round to the Mediterra-
| mean ports, in order to wind up at Bar
| celona, despite the separatist and Cat
| alanist agitations that are just now SC
! lively in Catalonia. Indeed, there are
| strange and widespread undercurrentS
! moving in all classes of Spanish socie-
| ty, which seem to have aroused at
court the desire to do more than hither-
to to keep up the spirit of loyalty and
show the nation, the church and the
army and navy the prince who will be
their ruler in 1902.
This activity Of royalty has been
much commented upon, as 1t has been
rumored that the Idea of postponing for
two years, with the assent of the
Cortes the coming of age of A]phonso
XIII, had been mooted in very high
quarters. both on account of the king $
health and with view to complete his
education and training. This sugges-
public that the ministerial and dynas-
tic press were instructed to say that no
such thing was contemplated. 1t
helped, however, to make politicians
and the press give more attention than
usual this year to the Kings birthday
and to his doings. FL Impartial, pa
per that Is known to receive it's infor-
nation concerning the royal family
from very trustworthy sources in the
palace, and whose editor and co-proprl-
etor, Senior Gasset, a man under forty
has accepted seat in the cabinet pre-
sided over by Senior Silvea, as minister
of public works, commerce. industry
and navigation, published an article
that created much impression on the
very day after Alphonso's birthday. Ell
impartial clearly points out that 1t is
not sufficient when the king has only
two years ahead Of him before his be-
coming of age, to let his subjects see
him at palace, religious or state cere-
monies, and in the barracks and at the
opening Of the parliament. This paper,
which has the largest circulation in
Spain, lays much stress upon the neces-
sity Of completing the training and ed
ucating of the young monarch by put
ting him closely, if prudently. and by
degrees In contact with the country
and people he will so soon have to gov
ern, allowing him to see much that he
cannot learn in books or from the best
of professors, and letting him hear
from men of all classes and conditions
what constitutional and parliamenta-
ny ruler must know in nation where
parliamentary and constitutional gov
eminent exist chiefly on paper and In
the outward forms. 1t is only fair to
say that Spaniards themselves are very
frank and plain-spoken in telling for
eigners that the education of their fu-
ture ruler Is more difficult from every
point of view than that of any Euro
pean sovereign, because everybody
knows that their elections, political,
provincial and municipal, are never sin
cere, and only the result of more or lesh
avowed understandings between the OPP
positions and the powers that be. so
that often in the last twenty-six years
the sovereign has had necessarily to in
tervene.-Spanish Letter In the New
York Evening Post.