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The good old vices of Spain,” that is, the robbing of the lesser rogue by the greater in regulated gradations all the way from the King to the beggar, are as prevalent and as vital as ever they were.
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Watterson critiques the political corruption in Spain, likening it to a hierarchy of exploitation.
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