Morals in Spain.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 27, 3 July 1902, Page 20

Morals in Spain.

A Catholic exchange writing on the morals of the Spaniards s«ys : — Mr. M xim, of gun fame, has told us that he has two factories, one in Spain, the other in England, and in the former locks are unnecessary ; the doors of the factory and every compartment m it stood open ; but 'had this laxity been practised in England the factory would have been gut.cd the first night it was unlocked.' When a ludy asked Mr Maxim to subscribe to ' the Spanish mission ' h*> offered instead to subscribe to any movement that would make the morals of England like thoße of Spain. There are fewer suicides on 'the dark map of Spain' than any other. We must go to less Fuperftitious and prieet-ridden ' lands to find people fo wretched or so base that numbers of them either do not find life worth living or fear to face the earthly consequences of their own acts. Mr Scott, a Protestant, says : — ' The Spaniard looks upon a drunkard with the most undisguised horror and contempt. There are few mortals more abstemious and less given to excesses of any kind than the people of the Peninsula.'