The morning news., 1897-08-15
SOME VIEWS OF DoN CARLOS.

From the Swiss and Nice Times.


Swiss and Nice Times. The interview
the interviewer is indebted to his royal
| highness' chamberlain, Count de Meagar.
for having facilitated the interview and
arranged preliminaries.
The audience was opened by the inter
viewer: How much your royal hignness
must be pained to see your
| country wasting away. OWING to
| the powerlessness and imDotency
of various political parties, in
capable of an energetic policy. IT. seems
to me that never before was capable
man. strong and popular, so mucla needed
to cope with the present situation. What
is your royal highness' opinion ;as to the
policy that should be followed at the pres
/ ent timer"
| Don carlos was lost in thought for some
moments and then replied: Il will not
| conceal the fact of my repugna. ace 10 be-
| ing interviewed just now. / declined sew
/ eral interviews at the beginning of the
| Cuban campaign, and l only espond to
| your courteous request in the hope that
| my voice may reach Spain tn rough the
powerful medium of the press, llot with a
| view to introducing further elements of
| discord, but that my words of purest
| patriotism may be heard. My opinion as
| to the present policy of Spain may be re-
| sumed in two words. In bOrro wing of NJ
| Clemenceau of France a phrase which
| was so severely censured, but which is as
| energetic as it is picturesque / maintain
| that Spains policy should be dealt with
| en- bloc, not pecemeal. 1t is absurd, 1t is
| maladroit and 1t is anti-patriotc to make
| distinctions between the interests of the
| dynasty and the interests of the nation,
4 s.Ev sNaIt
| by allowing that the one can be sacrificed
| in view of saving the other. All should
| be dealt with as a whole, as a concrete
| unity and save all or lose all is my policy
! The greatest fault, or, to use the exact
| word, the greatest crime to be laid TAT the
/ door of the patriotism of those who con-
| duct affairs at Madrid is TO have followed
| quite an opposite course In order 10 save
| their dynasty they have not dared TO
! strike decisive blow for the nation. Ia
order not to scare credit, they undertake
| shady speculations, a thousand times
| more ruinous for the public veal.
There is no question of a doubt that the
| United States await the chance to swallow
| up Cuba, be 1t at once by Immediate an
| nexation or by the proclamation of its in
| dependence as a first step to annexation.
| The policy of AL the Washington statesmen
| evidently aims at this result. 1t is inevi-
table; II is logic from the American stand
| point, that appetites should be excited by
the shameful impotency Of the MRdrid gov
| eruments
II know the United States well. have
| Travelled all over the country. and preserve
| a pleasant souvenir The Americans are
a nation of superabundant activity, who,
| however, make moral questions too subor-
| dinate to material interests. l recognize
! that they show a conscious respect for
| strength and courage, and profound ad-
miration, though less conscious, for peo-
| pie with ancestors and traditions. Owing
| to a thoughtless, though sincere, feeling,
| this young Nation finds itself vis-a-vis no
! matter what European nation like the
| small scb/olboy Vis-a-Vis the schoOlmaster.
| Even should the schoolboy be blessed with
! plenty of muscle and the schoolmaster be
sickly individual, the former feels him
| SELF conteSsedly in state Of inferority,
and, should he be disposed to play tricks,
/ he does so in such way as to escape the
| consequences having a wholesome fear of
| the big stick This moral ascendency, all
the stronger because it is the outcome of
| instinct, the master holds as long as he
! can make use of it; but beware! should he
| allow himself to be mocked at without
! subsequent correction, the small boy be-
comes ferocious and cruel. This Is our
! case with America. An infexible non
| jossumus opposed to their first attempts to
meddle in our affairs, a birile and energetic
! attitude, would have cut short any possi-
| bility Of conflict. American statesmen
would have understood that they had more
| to lose than to gain; the press, in which,
as everywhere, one finds side by side with
| adventurers right-thinling people, would
have been more moderate, and writer's
| would have been found TO plead our cause
inspired by the courage official Spain would
! have been in duty bound to show in defense
| of her rights, courage corresponding with
! the heroism Of the admirable soldiers who
fight nobly under our flag.
] Hawaii gives us a foretastes of what is
projected for Cuba. The antilles would be
| swallowed in the same fashion as that
| other archipelago In the Pacific, discov-
cred in parenthesis. by Spain, as it was
| our illustrious Villalobo who first lmplant-
ed a European flag there, naming them
! the Isles des Rey, two hundred years be-
! fore Capt Cook came into those waters
| and claimed to be their discoverer. as If
| the powerful Anglo-SaXon race so rich in
| discoveries, needed to appropriate our glo-
| riesw
what opinion docs your royal highness
| express in regard 10 Mr.. McKinley's pol
| icy?"
1T Is difficult to form an opinion on the
| new Presidents policy, whose policy or
| ideas / am unfamiliar with except by more
| or less interested references to the same
If one may judge by recents events, Mr.
| Mckinley appears to be a man torn BY
| two conflicting interests, the political and
! the commercial. He has a commercial
ideal which he deems advantageous for
his country. He wishes TO Impose il on
his countrymen, and for It's attainment
must fatter the political passions Of those
who possibly are not altogether OF his way
Of thinking. do not give my definite opin-
ion; this Is merely my impression In any
case, the points Of view differ considerably
for the traveller on the way and the one
who has arrived. Mr. Mckinley rs al tho
summit. Let as hope he may be able to
take 10 the general view. In which the lin
go elements appear confused"
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