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 

 Lieutenant 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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