Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-06-22
THE RICHMOND DisrAICB-W WEDNESDAY, JUNE a. 1898
DON CARL0S'S PLANS.
WHAT AMOUNTS TO A MANIFESTO
FROM THE PRETENDER.
HIS VIEW As TO THE WAR
HostiIities, He Thinks, should BE
Prosecuted TO the Utmost--sugges-
ton of Desperate sally on Ger
vera's Part.

MADRID via BIARRITZ, June a-E
impartial publishes an interview It's cor
| respondent has had with Don Carlos. Al
1t Is understood that the Pretender re-
vised the interview before It was publish.
cd, his statements may be regarded as In
the nature OF a manifesto
Don Carlos said: Il won't conceal from
you that when left Venice last April ]
was resolved to protest by means Of force
and arms-that is. by ordering my parti-
sans to rise against the people who were
prosututing our country-but when ]
learned that war against the United
States was imminent, and might be de-
clared at any moment. / changed my
resolution and firmly decided TO observe
the most absolute impassiyity.
"Unswerved from this decision. / do not
desire TO create the least difficulty for my
country, since IL is most important that
all her children. should sacrifice them
selves for her. My enforced inaction puts
me to despair, but 1 carry it to the ex-
treme Of depriving myself even Of ex-
pressing my opinion as 10 current events
committed the crime OF not preparing the
nation for a war every one saw TO be
unavoidable for the last two years will
never be able to accuse me Of having
Withdrawn a single Spanish will from the
national forces in the fight with the
United States
They brought on the war by yielding
continually TO American demands. and
they Will have TO take the responsibility
OF their mistake. This attitude of mine
will last so long as the present condi-
ton OF affairs endures. but when the
hour for the great settlement arrives /
shall make up for my present silence.
l viii then take my revenge. not by
means Of words alone. but by means OF
acts, and l will do that as soon as my
conscience as a Spanard permits me to
do IT, l am firmly resolved to fulfil my
duty to the end, and 10 omit no sacrifice
In order 10 redeem and avenge Spain"
SHOULD HE MOUNT THE THRONE.
Don Carlos. questioned as TO the policy
he would adopt in case he should mount
the throne, said he could not enter upon
that subject now. beyond admitting the
necessity for a largely increased navy
but he declared that he had thought out
and completed plans regarding the mill
tary problem, and the question of SPANS
foreign policy.
They are my favorite subjects Of medi-
tation," he observed, land have certain
mature ideas Of my own regarding them.
have even carried forward some pre-
liminaries respecting alliances. which
hope Will some day yield excellent fruit.
This in my judgment, is the capital point,
because the proud isolation of Great
Britain has been and is deadly to Spain.
i must pass the same judgment on the
policy of going about begging for protec-
ton and intervention. The result of
such a policy can only be TO reduce 10
the condition of Greece or Servia the
Spanish nation, which was once the
mistress of the world"
PROSECUTING THE WAR.
Don Carlos spoke eloquently of the re-
cessity for prosecuting the war 10 the ut
most
"Our peoples wonderful nerve, spirit. |
and exalted sense of honor are the force |
Spain can bring to a nation. She must |
use zealously that force and spirit. The |
only disasters for us now are moral dis |
lsters, for we have no further material |
ones TO suffer, having suffered all.
Therefore, If, for example, Admiral |
CerVera, surrounded by forces ten times |
superior TO his own, and having been |
granted a chance to capitulate on condi- |
ions comparatively honorable, should |
prefer to make a sally and lose all his
,esscls, sinking at the same time as many |
American warships as he could, he would
10 not only an heroic deed, but also
Useful work, by preserving 10 Spain the
.ureola Of which no enemy has yet been
bile to deprive her"