The Blood of the Nation 



Spain died of empire centuries ago. 

 She has never crossed our path. It was 

 only her ghost which walked at Manila 

 and Santiago. In 1630 the Augustin- 

 ian friar La Puente thus wrote of the 

 fate of Spain : " Against the credit for 

 redeemed souls I set the cost of arma- 

 das and the sacrifice of soldiers and 

 friars sent to the Philippines. And this 

 I count the chief loss ; for mines give 

 silver, and forests give timber, but only 

 Spain gives Spaniards, and she may 

 give so many that she may be left deso- 

 late, and constrained to bring up stran- 

 gers' children instead of her own." 

 " This is Castile," said a Spanish knight; 

 " she makes men and wastes them." 

 " This sublime and terrible phrase," says 

 Captain Carlos Gilman Calkins, from 

 whom I have received both these quota- 

 tions, " sums up Spanish history." 



The warlike nation of to-day is the 

 decadent nation of to-morrow. It has 



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