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TiIK TltEATY BKTWKKX SPAIN AND MOROCCO.
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proportion of bur substance on the false plea of promoting the increase . > To have more -wealth as population increases , there must also he more skill ; and there is no general fact more certain than that an increase of population is always accompanied by a further division of labour , aud an increase of skill . ' We have all learned lately from facts , contrary to the teaching of Maltiius , Eicakdo , and . their followers , that , " in consequence of skill increasing- with population , all kinds of commodities , including raw materials , and including -food , . arc . obtained , whenever and wherever Government stands out of the wav of industry , by a diminishing
quantity of labour . Never in our history was corn so continuously cheap through a long period as since 1 $ 42 ; and never ¦ was the cost of clothing and all other tilings . so small as at present , notwithstanding the . enormous imposts , and . still-continued restrictions and exactions of Government . A short time ago , a discovery was made that some £ 40 , 000 , 000 of the national income' was enjoyed by millowners and landowners of Laiicnshire , and a shout ' . of indignation was set up by our loudest shout or , as if that wealth was filched from the rest of the world . The plain fact , however , is tliat the people there , by their wonderful industry and skill , perform many useful services , for which the rest of the world willingly pays . They siipply it with ingenious machinery : and cheap clothing , and are by the general ' competition barely remunerated for their labour and ingenuity . ¦; ' ' ¦• . ¦¦ - . ; : ¦ ¦ - .. . ¦ ¦ ¦
. , . , These improvements accompany increasing population , and as lona-experience teaclies iis that there is harmony in" all the works " nature , We have good reason to suppose that the increasing multitude would not 'be ready to . pick each . other ' s pockets or cut each other ' s throats , while they an ? , actually intent on helping and serving each other ., : unless Government prevented them . Yet on this pretext Gbver . iniient taxes them , and p ersi sts in takino- niorc and more , year by year , of their substance ,. The ititiii strious men of Lancashire and other pi aces . perform improved services for one another , at a loss cost year by year ,: the . services
of the Government , on the . contrary , grow worse and worse-, as We all know , year . by . year ,, while the . officials demand nrprc , and receive more ,-year l . Iy ' year , . as the comparison of the revenue , for lS < 30 with the * revemic of i > a , st years proves . IJke ^ Mr . Wrr . sox , they assume that the prosperity of tlu-nV customers " . or clients is the * proof of their own efficiency ,. and insist on . being- paid , not according to ; what they do ,-but ' according to what their customers do for themselves . This is obviously an . error nnd a . wrong . ; . and , while we roco' -nko with « reat ' satisfaction the ..-. increase , of the
reraiu p as a proof of the progress and prosperity of the , multitude , we deny that such an immense sum as £ 71 , 000 , 000 a-yonr is fairly earned and honestly appropriated by the Government .
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rpjli : Ma (( i- }({ r . \ ^ i ~( ' ( J i oi--Ma yy-, puimsnes ^ h JL lhe > ., tre . atv ' betwe (? , n tin : Moorish Moslems and the Spanish Crusader * . Morocco is to cede to Spurn the whole territory from the sea to the hollow- road of A ' nghen ) , and id so a certain portion of tin- territory at Santa Cruz ; ' .. 'Hie Convention of 1 Soil , concerning Melilla , El -Punon , and Alhuceinas , is to be ratified . Tctuun is ' to be retained bv Spain till I . ho Moors have paid the :
injured Cnstilians twentymillions of piastres . A eouiinereud tvejity is also mentioned , ' in which Spain in to be considered the most favoured nation , and to enjoy speciul pri \ ilcges . Spanish ministers nnd ambassadors arc to be received at Yca ; and , lastly , the Spaniards arc to be allowed- — ever after the 25 th oi April , when the treaty is to bo signed at UYtunn—to expend their residue cartridges and surplus bullets on the mosquito swarms of implacable Kiibylcs . better in this
' We must confess that Spain 1 ms carried herself war than wo could linve expected ; or rather the Moors have borne themselves worse . "We had great faith in the Parthian clouds of savage cavalry , and relied ' on a more confident and disfiplincd resistance to nit unjust invasion . We had expected tlint the Spaniards' march wouhl luvvo begun with boe-lrives , and ended in tho lions' ( ton Wo hud expeotod that tho Moors would have , swarmed down on ( he invaders till half Africa was oinptv , ere Spniu had been allowed to eneronclron the dominions has it to bo
of tho waning Crescent . Providence permitted otherwise . Perhaps the Moors , owing to their sanity . means of information , top much deapised'tlio preparations of their tnrdy enemy . Perhaps it was found dilUenlt , after a long peace , to linito ' tho forces of tho jonlous ohiofs . Pevhnps , disdaining . their desert seaboard , t | vcj Moors wore hoping to decoy tho 'bragging cuojny to curtain destvuetion in tlio interior of tho country . Bo it as ' it may , the Moors allow themselves defontud , find bend their shaven lio ' iule before tho Spnuisli tents , After soiuo gallant though rcitlior fltftil fighting , tho tnrbonod wen , coutent with id ' ' *
inflicting great losses oh the Spaniards , pray for peace . The result of the war , we are afraid , howiever , has been , after all , but small even to Spain . " As to the Christian world at lrfrgft , it has Sained- nothing . What does Spain gain ? So many thousand piastres if they are ever paid ^ a ' nd a strip of land opposite the Canary Islands ' ; commercial privileges which she hus too little trade to benefit by . ^ . ] S " or must we forget the important advantage that a tepanish ambassador and two or three missionaries are to be allowed to go and be put to death atTez . TetiUm is to be again surrendered when the piastres are paid , and all things will return to their original condition , as they were before the war was begun . The bullets have plumped into skulls , and have perforated occiputs , and have drilled jawbones , and carried away eyes and tongues and arms and toes , all to no purpose but the / amusement of the Great Black Prince of Mischief , who rejoices and chuckles at all human follies , Under "" aloe clumps and beneath palm trees and behind rocks the dead men rest , the victims of intolerance fighting for toleration : the hecatombs of Christianity warring to spread its creed . Some thousands of Spanish youths sown over the African . sand shore / and for what ? . To win a strip of land opposite the Canary Islands for a nation who cannot , cultivate its own country—to win some . piastres to pay for a war that never should have been . levied to procure commercial privileges for a nation without commerce : nnd to be allowed to send missiouaries to Ft /; where their lives will not be worth an hour ' s purchase , and where they wall convert no one ,. unless it may be the slaves they buy for that lionourable . -purpose . ' '' ¦ . The one pennnnent . result of the war has been tho dukedom conferred on ODonxbh .. The shot , " the shells-, the rifles , tho horses , the asses , all will return to ^ Spain , and be as they were before ' - tlu- cities will attain become Moorish , the crescent will ainun toss its ,, horns . ; but the- dukedom and its income will remain . Spain may not bvuerit ; Inrt O'Dosneu , wdl ; . - One " -rent julvan ' taiio the world might ¦ li . TVe gained from-tlns purposeless war—ami thnt the . Spaniards have not .. thought ofive menu the destruction of the ILif pirates , those lnhuniau murderers of shipwrecked men . To strike on that inhospitable coast is . all but certain death to the unhappy sailor , whatever be li is country . Those savage mountaineers look upon wrecks as Godsemis . " and all living ' civatvires that" ave washed ashore as intrusive eiR-mics . As robbers , they put to death the survivors that- they may share their property ; ns Mohauuiiedans of extreme ianatieism , they slay them . as . haters of the . Prophet and the Law .- To have burnt out these enemies of . mankind would have been a blessing , to the world . . But this the Spaniard * did not do ; the evil remains as it was . . ¦ ... ir The " Karl of ( VafuNahvon drew the attention of the House the other day , judiciously enough , to the iujiuy England must experience if ' the Spanish concpiests on the African shore- bpcqincs permanent acquisitions of the . Spanish crown . LIU remarks did ¦ lil ' lle inoro than recapitulate what we hinted sonic ¦ time s-mce . Spain has accused us of iuterj ' eriiij ? scorfctly iu this war , because she knows our -icoocl wishes go with ' the . Moors . Our commerce with Morocco is now thriving ; but when Spain holds tin : north coast ,. tVoin 'Letmm -to Tangiers , and the Atlantic side is ns . well under her rule , Morocco will have no trade 'but what . ^ pain chooses ; she will be nl ) lo to trade only when nnd where Spam . chooses . . Our trade will soon dwindle , or'ccuse . altogether when fettered through a Spanish medium . Put a still more seriovis thing is \ ho fact that , in case of a war with Spain , we could no longer hope to obtain provisions from the coast of Morocco , that luis hitherto been always open to us . Gilmilrtir , with oil its helmets pf proof tuul its thousnml hris . thng guns , would die Of inanition like a stnrvcd-out giunt . lliu h IV 11 hands would be powerless , the great arms nervch- ^ , « m < the poor despised dwarf , so long spurned and despised , would soon lop off his loan head , and give him to the vultures . There are hints that Franco has encournged Spain ^ in thifi war for this verv purpose . Her bombardment of Tnngicr sullicientlv showoA which wny her inclination-tended . A tmu- may eoni ' e wjien tho neglected Moors may bo again our ^ > ° ' friends , as they have been so often before . Can we wonder Mini Spain should ' look nt our neutrality with suspicion V A * tlio French never forget Waterloo , so the Spaniard never forget * Gibraltar . Tt is the constant thorn in thoir side , tlic constant beta noit ' i' of their eyes , 1 ho pcrpeluid nightmare of thoir puhtu-ai dreams . Tliov" will lut Carthagcna rot , and the Vega \ n > . bun-en , but' tliev onnnot bear that ( Jibmltar should bridle the Bea'lhii washes ' Spain—their' pride and their religion both cry puj against it . Franco whfapers them on to-angry protests mu « vindictive mutterings ; sure , friend of oura she will never uo while the redcoats ., pnci ? about that fire-proof bulwark . »>« have fought before this for Malta , wo may someday have to itf" * for Gibrnltfir , for tho miserable successes of this petty war nave
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322 Tlie Leader and Sutler day Analyst . [ April 7 , I 860 .
Tiik Tlteaty Bktwkkx Spain And Morocco.
T 1 IK T 11 EATY BKTWKKX SPAIN AND ^ rOl ^ QCGO ;
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Leader (1850-1860), April 7, 1860, page 322, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2341/page/6/
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