El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-04-15
EDITORIAL VIEWS
THE TURNING POINT

;4s-- -------Sk> is to say in the year
1919, trivial event took
place in History and as direct consequence Of that event
the life Of Spain DETECTED in very radical manner?
It is safe to say that had not that event happened Spain
would probably have been the champion of Liberty and
and the most progressive country IN Europe The event
in itself said All insignificant one; but in the
same manner as some large rivers deviaed at their
heads by insignificant elevations Of land and the stream
turns in another direction until it reaches the hundreds
of miles from the place where would probably had dsem
bogued had not that insignificant hill been the path
way up in the mountains, in the same manner some
'trifes" change entirely the Of History. Some
have said that had not rain fallen the field of Water
loo the night of June IT, 1876 Napoeons second down
tall would never had occurred and God only knows what
would have followed But let us go to story
The little event refer to above is the Journey under
taken by Charles the First of Spain Germany in order
to receive the IMPERIAL CROWN under the name of Charles
The Fifth.
Charles had been King Of Spain since 1916 when he
succeeded his grandfather Ferdinand whose wife lsa
bella helped Columbus to discover America. The only
child of the Catholic Monarchs Joanna called the Mad
married Philip Hthe Handsome, Archduke Of AUSTRIA
and that is why when in 1919 Emperor Maxmilan died.
his grandson Charles, was sent for and was crowned
emperor pte of the efforts of other competitors the
strongest of which Francis the First King Of France
Some people, dazzed by apparent greatness, by mate
rial size prone to regard this period the happest
in Spanish history The real fact is that Spains great
ness already past it's zenith and already coming
down fast the declined accelerated during the reign
Of Charles son, Philip the Second, regardless of his
territorial ACQUISITIONS and kept coming down through
the reign Of the other two Philips and that of the stupid
last king of the House of Austria in pan Charles the
Second.
When Charles the First went to Germany, in 1519 a
crowd of degenerated nobemen imported by the young
monarch from his country, Flanders remained in charge
of the public affairs in the peninsula to which the proud
Spaniards rightly protested and attention being paid
to their renonstrances some Of those patriots finally
broke out in open rebellion If ever revolt was justified
it was the "War of the Castilian Communities Just
keep your eye that word, community" Can that be
possible that early in the 18th Century they should be
talking in Spain about Communism" Yes, happened
The "Comuneros' raised the standard Of revolt very
much like the American patriots revoted against King
George At the beginning not many in America thought
Of severng the ties binding the Colonies with the mother
country; that after. In like the Spanish
patriots led by Bravo Padla and Maldonado at first
satisfied with protesting against the debaucheres commit
ted in the Of the sovereign, to whom the usual
memorial sent but later on, the plan deveopped
of the leaders, who had been in Italy, and had
how states could get along we'll without kings began
to think Of republic and actually drew what might be
called republican constitution for Spain.
In 1921 the imperial troops and the comuneros fought
battle Villalar, in the province of Vaadod and
Gir6n the rebels defeated and their leaders, who
represented Justice and Liberty put death by the
public executioner The thing might have happened
to the leaders Of the American Revolution had tre
favored the fortune Of the mercenary soldiers of Eng
land and instead Of the powerful column of Liberty called
the United States of America, God only knows what
would that continent be today.
The student Of Spanish history will find nothing more
interesting throughout that those few years Of struggle
between Tyranny and Liberty in Spai from 1919 1921