San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-29
S[GASTA INTERVIEWED.
Talks Freely OF Politics
In Spain.
ANSWERS ALL QUESTIONS IN
MEDIATELY THAT ARE PUT
TO HIM.
HOOtS At The Idea OF The COntem-
plated Sale Of Cuba And Says
Porto RicO'S Promised Re-
forms May Apply To
Cuba Also.


Herald from Madrid, says:
Senior Segasta has just given a long
interview to the Herald correspondent
The statements he made passes uni
| que and immense value at teh pres
| juncture of affairs and they are his
only utterances in a public sense and
destined for public ear since the Tet-
uan-C omas incident threw the Span
ish parties into discord and induced
the withdrawal of the Liberal party
from the meetings of Parliament as a
protest against the minister of States
| constinuance in office.
The following are the questions put
to Senior Segasta, together with the re-
plies:
rs the withdrawal from politics of
the Liberal party due solely to the
Tetuan incident"
Withdrawal is not the correct word
for the attitude of the Liberal party. 1t
is simply a temporary absence from
attending the sessions of Parliament,
while the minister of State, who has
so gravely wronged that Parliament
continues in the cabinet"
by a telegram published some days
ago in the capitol ii. appears that the
Spanish Conservatives, rather than
the Americans themselves, considered
and entertained the possibility of the
sale of Cuba. Do you intend to reply
| in public to the insinuations from the
conservative and press?"
| Considering my views with which
all the world is familiar, that suppose
ton is so grotesque that I do not care
to make any reply to it at all. / trust
that public opinion will not regard it
as a serious charge. Indeed the pub
lie has not done So"
| when / was in Porto Rico, four
months ago, the Autonomist commiss-
ion of the island, which had just retur-
ned from Spain told me that you
promised them that on your party
coming into power you would give
Porto Rico complete administrative
autonomy. Is that SOP"
81 did say to the Autonomists that
the Liberal party will give Porto Rico
administrative autonomy, and 1 have
praised the tendency which the Au-
Economists are manifesting towards
indentifying themselves with the Lib
eral party of the peninsula, because
this will much facilitate The admins
tration of the Antilles and will link
them more closely with the mother
country"
"win you favor me with some out
line of the policy which the Liberal
party proposes to follow in Cuba?"
TN all that concerns the integrity of
the mother country there is no differ
ence of opinion whatever among the
| Spanish parties or politicians. We
are all resolved to make whatever eff
orts may be necessary to maintain the
National sovereign in Cuba. This was
what 1 stated a year ago. Where 1
differ from the Conservative is in the
means of accomplishing the pacifica-
ton and ewlfare of the island, since l
am of the opinion that political and
diplomatic action should have been en-
ployed conformity with military ac-
| ton, and l fear that through nom
adoption of that system the value of
the two former has been impaired. l
believe so thoroughly in political ac-
ton because consider the material
| triumph of an armed force land on this
point 1 never entertained doubt) does
not suffice to bring about that init
mate, final union of Cuba with SPAIN"
Political action, besides being a power
| for the auxiliary of military action
is the only policy CONTEMPLATED to re-
store things to the condition of moral
quietude and this revolt will be at
| tanned when the laws bestowed upon
Cuba shall be such as shall cause all
mistrust to disappear and deprive the
enemies of Spain of every possible pre-
text for affirming that the mother
country does not govern Cuba in the
spirit of freedom and justice. In this
connection consider that what have
said in regard to Porto Rico, applies al
so to the island of Cuba"