Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-25

pear to have the ingredients developed
as yet" is the verdict of this journal.
Nevertheless, like the constant drop
that may wear away a stone, the re-
publican agitation in Spain may ulti-
mately achieve its end or affect a real
modification of the present system, "
suggests the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Like other Latin countries, Spain is
volatile land. Its people are given
to Seething," notes the Chattanooga
Times, which states that the life of the
kingdom has been, in recent years at
least, one of almost perpetual political
turmoil. Trouble in Spain, like trouble in
China, has largely come to be taken
for granted" according to the Judgment
of this paper.
The recent uprising, like the recent
upheavals in the Spanish-American
countries of South America, seems to
have its basis in economic distress, "
observes the Roanoke World-News,
noting that "the Latin temperament
reacts to such conditions by revolution;
the Anglo-Saxon temperament at the
ballot box" AS the Savannah Morning
News says: Revolutions do not usually
come to fruition during good times
everybody is too well satisfied, or at
least those who are dissatisfied are
in the minority, and the weight of pub
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OF stress, OF general unemployment,
when men and their families are hun
cry, political leaders find it easy to
round up large numbers of dissatisfied
persons, and when much of the public
takes neither side, it sometimes is DOS
Slble to make minority seem a major
ity, and obtain a change of form of
government or of personnel in charge
OF government"
Manu- aI
in the comparison between the grandeur
OF Spain of an earlier day and the
condition of the country in modern
times. Says the Columbus Ohio State
Journal: THE picture of Spain i'm
periled on the brink is a dramatic one.
Once the worlds greatest power; once
the richest nation; once the most DOM
1neer1ng, now is in its dotage and
trembling before the onslaught of a
Few roWdy upstairs, who may succeed
in capturing the fancy of most of the
people left in this declining monarchy.
She has had a grand life and, now
that she is Ill, we may sympathize
with her, sentimentally, as we would
Sympath1ze with any fallen power. :"
Drawing a similar picture, the AL
toona Mirror declares: Modern Spain
Is merely the shadow of the former
mighty empire, shadow of her former
greatness. For a considerable period
she has been declining. She furnishes
a vivid illustration of the fact that
SHINING nations are as liable to punish
ment as individuals who transgress the
moral law"
The Milwaukee Sentinel believes that
SPANS poverty lis a poverty of enter
prise and energy. Generations of an
cestorS, who lived easily on the fruits
OF the New World, bequeathed to the
present an unhealthy sloth," this paper
asserts. But the Chicago Daily Tri-
bune, predicting that 1.-THE Spanish
people will not remain outside of the
modern age" forecasts adjustments
to come, either from a moderate re-
gime or sooner or later by a destructive
explosion" So also the Atlanta Jour-
nal, which is convinced that what
ever the outcome of the current situa-
ton, there can be little doubt that a
people who are making splendid history
in letters and art will not rest content
with mediocre politics"