All accounts represent the alarm of the propertied classes as
extreme, and wexuspect it is justifiable. For years no rioting has occurred in Spain without menaces to the rich ; in entire provin- ces like Andalusia the cultivators are wretched, and are penetrated with agrarian ideas, while in the cities the hostility between em- ployers and employed is such that at every entente the former fly panicstricken. The economic evils of Spain are very great, the refusal of civil justice by the Courts has made the poor hate the rich, who use these Courts as weapons, while the desire for land has risen into a positive passion. The great properties are neglected or racked for money, the English system of farms, on which the landlord does everything, is unknown, and over large tracts the people are governed by the owners' bailiffs. No amount of slaughter would cure these evils, not to mention that the soldiery feel them ; Prim is not the man to devise an economic revolution, and we cannot but believe that Spain is in the begin- ning of trouble, that she must pass through her 1789. Till the country folk want order because they possess property, society in Spain will be based on a very thin crust.
