One Result of the .War.
Mr Pennell, in an article in tbc Contemporary Review on hie bioyc'e tour through Southern Spain, says ha was greatly astonished to find, when be came to a same place fa Andalusia called Motril, that the distict was simply bumming with prosperity, a direct result of the war in Cuba. "It did not take long," he says, " to learn that the wreck of Cuba was Andalusia's prosperity; that the destruction of the plants. tions in that island made those of the Mediterranean coast ; that, as no tobacco was arriving from Havana equally good could be grown around Motril. It has been paid that the Spaniard is too lazy to work, and too ignorant ; here he was working as no labourer would anywhere else If the war in Cuba has drained thmost of the country of its youth and and its strength" here, from the youngest to the oldest, everyone wa3 as busy and as full of life as in an American town on the boom. And the wish that I heard on all Bides oi me, though mainly expressed by foreigner?, was that the war in Cuba might go on. For, if it was ruining the rest of the country, it was makirg tha fortune of tbo sugar planters ard the tobacco growers of Andalusia/
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Manawatu Herald, 9 July 1898, Page 3
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220One Result of the .War. Manawatu Herald, 9 July 1898, Page 3
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