Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-04-26
THE FUTURE OF SPAIN.
Her Greatest Hope Lies In the
Common People.
THEIR UNCOMFORTABLE SPIRIT.

Upper Glasses Are Like So Much
Dead WOpd--PossibiIities of Anoth-
er Republic Talked OF - Germany
the COHniry's Most Useful Friend.
Madrid Fetid Pool.
In the Escurial, near Madrid, there is
a great, round royal coffin chamber in 4
crypt below the palace. 1t is here that
the bones of the sovereigns of Spain
and the queen cOnsorts who have been
mothers of kings rest in leaden cOfffns,
one above another. in tiers, like boxes
on shelves down cellar.
Queen Mercedes is buried in a chapel
of the palace up stairs because she bore
no living heir to the throne of Alfonso
MI, whose coffin rests in the crypt he
low. Princes and princesses of the
blood royal also have their tOmbs in a
place outside, but here. as if in sinister
prophecy, there is now only room for
three more cOffins. Said guide to an
American who was visiting the crypt:
''One of the cotfins is for the fat
Quttll Asubtlitts NuOlli We lluht llN Ill
Paris because she is too wicked to live
in Madrid: one is for the Austrian lady
who is the mother of our expensive
royal baby, and one is for the baby
himself when he is old enough to come
to the throne. He will be crowned
when he is IL or so, and then it will be
time for him to occupy his place If the
Spanish people do not get ready for
republic again before that time"
This speech. says the New York Mail
and Express, made by n republican of
Spain to a republican of America, was
frank to fault, but it showed some
thing of the temper of the Spanish peo.
pie. They have had just about all the
trouble that they can endure. Poverty
and hunger were sufficiently wide
spread before the last war plunged
them into even greater depths of mis-
cry. Yes; they are miserable. but it
must not be thought they despair.
There is vital quality, a spirit of new
er say die, in the Spanish people that
some think must inevitably lead to
their country's final regeneration.
The riots and disturbances from end
to end of the peninsula may mean n
revolution. or things may quiet Gown,
and Weyler may hold the hand OF pow
er sufficiently strong to secure as cap
tain general little longer continuance
for the queen regent and the tOttering
throne of Alfonso XIII, or he may
gather the reins into his 0wn hands for
n season. but the future of Spain. " she
is TO have any national future, lies with
the people. who are everywhere engag-
ed in active and open protest against
the Cariist marriage, the Jesuits' pow
er and the imposition OF taxes beyond
their ability to pay.
The Spanish people throughout the
; provinces are. abstemious. temperate,
able to endure great hardships, reason
ably Industrious for natiyesof their eli
mate and as proud as those who call
themselves their betters. Their power
~ Is appalling and deplorable, but their
country is rich in resources, which the
rest OF the world is but slowly begin
ming to see. Ii is in the development
OF this national wealth that, next TO the
virtue OF the common people. there lies
the greatest hope for Spanish future
health and prosperity.
Germans are now everywhere I'm
Spain. managing mines. putting In cleo
trio lights and controlling other com.