The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-01-12
SPAIN.
The Struggle for n Republic-Vicws Of
the MOnarchIsts.

The Struggle for Republic-Nicws Of
the MOnarcllIsts.
The New York 1rtbune's Spanish correspond
ent has been talking with General Prim upon
the future of Spain, and dots down the resultof
that interview as follows:-
There is to be no republc-none by the aid of
Prim or his colleagues, none If they carry
through the policy on which they are bent l
am sorry to say this but say IL 1 must, for
neither the knowledge nor the sincerity OF my
infor mant is to be questioned Prim left Eug-
land pie dged to a republic, he is still Repuoli-
can, y ct he is beyond doubt going to establish q
IN onarchy- if ne can. His frienos and advisers
some OF whom were more Repu blican than he,
coincide with, or perhaps suggest, his anti Re
publican policy. They all treat the question as
their preference for republic, but declare IL
impossible. They insist on Prlm's epigram
"You cannot have republic without repu0li
cans" as sober statement OF au tncOntroyerti
bic fact But there are Republicans, L repl ed.
You had TO, put them d9w4 at Csdlz
1t is doubtful whether they have
towns. Yes, is the rejoinder, but "a republic i'm
plies intelligence. These men have voted from
sentiment. from instinct from horror of what
hey have suffered under monarchy, from the
dictation of leaders who put into their hands a
ballot they could not read. When we say there
are no Republicans we mean no Intelligent
ones. Not ten in u hundred Spaniards can read
They know nothing of government or politics.
They must, above all things, De educated. Give
them q republic to-day, the same votes are
likely TO upset IL tomorrow, when the first
We mean TO pass law that after q fixedtime
three or five Yeas, no man over thirty or thirty
five who cannot read shall retain the franc hise
We mean to set up schools which shall make q
republic possible, for we do not admit that in
postponing the republic We are unfaithful TO
Most Americans will have thsir own answer
10 this, l naturally said. If We can trust our
your SpaniaTds7 Reading is not the only
source or evidence of Intelligence. Pressed a
| little on this point, he betook himself TO the
har xubi inkni 40 IlRhu ora upF "A MI TO
Europe Will not tolerate $ SpahiSh republic
| there is what Prim and his associates really
| believe, and they are not ready TO throw do wn
their glove in the face of the coslesced mon
archs north OF the Pyrenees. The assassin of
the Tuileries, he who betrayed the French re-
to cut It's lhroat-re-enact in Spain
he Sd Of becemperq Probaby DID
We should beat them" exclaimed the naughty
the partisans of Isabella. =, the Carlists. to the
agents of Rome, to - r .alcontents of every
swarm swarm over the Northern Mountains and all
across the line of Portugal. There would be
an instruction every week; no province would
be quiet, commerce would languish q reform
o! the finances become impossible. No gov
eminent, least of all an experimental admins
could be firmly established while they went on
with the active assistance or connivauce OF
are ineaicuable and he would use every
one of them. A republic would be a red flag
tlared in his face. Spain dare not enter on sucn
a contest at this moment. She needs repose.
! Her iinl noes are in q disorder which nothing
! but settled government can restore. Any
government will be intrigued against, but
against a republic all parties would unite. To
maintain it in the face of such an opposition,
| backed by such support from without, is what
| no man who knows spain would attemp pt at
this moment. Numerous the Republicans
| are they include few or no men accustomed
| to affairs, able to administer departments, OF
whose names would command respect at home
| or abroad.
That is sketch of the arguments by which
| Prim and those who act with him convince
each other that Spain must endure one more
monarchy. But only one, they say, and they
| defend their consistency as Republicans by say.
| ing they all accept the monarchy as an evi
necessary for the hour; but also as the essential
| s.ep 10 IePuuiiS' 1ney uecisre t1ey nave nc
| other royal family. they would build kint
OF temporary throne just strong enough to sus
| lain one sovereign, and tumble to pieces wheI
| he dies-a throne that shall only be scaffJld.
| ing for @ republic. An ominous suggestion.