Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-06-21
ANOTHER cARLIsT MANIFESTO.
The Pretender Adberes to His Policy
of NOn-Interference While
the War Lasts.

MADRID, VIA BIARRITZ. June 2O.-El
Impartial publishes an interview It's cor
respondent has had with Don Carlos. As
1t is understood that the pretender revised
the interview before it was published, his
statements may be regarded as in the ma
ture of a manifesto. Don Carlos said:
IT wont canceal from you that when I
Iefta.Eenice last April I was resolved to
protest by means of force and arms-that
is by ordering my partisans to rise against
tie people who were prosti;u:ssiss cur cOun-
try by a serics sf lI:;.asgirable humilia-
tions-but VIXEN learned that war against
the United States was Imminent and might
be declared at any moment, l changed my
resolution and firmly decided to observe
the most absolute impassivity.
"Cnswerved from this decision, do not
desire to create the least difficulty for my
country, since 1t is most important that
all her children should sacrifice themselves
for ner. My enforced inaction puts me to
despair. but / carry it to the extreme of
depriving myself even of expressing my
opinion to current events.
1.-THE governing statesmen, who have
committed the crime Of not preparing the
nation for a war everyone saw to be un-
avoidable for the last two years. will never
be able to accuse me of having Withdrawn
a single Spanish will from the national
forces III the fight with the United States.
They brought on the war by yielding
continually TO American demands, and they
will have to take the responsibilities OF
their mistake. This attitude of mine will
last so long as the present condition of af-
fairs endures, but when the hour for the
great settlement arrives I shall make up
for my present silence / will 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 Spaniard
permits me to do it, firmly resolved
to fulfil my duty 20 the end. and to omit
no sacrifice in order TO redeem and avenge
Spain
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 of a large increase in the navy,
but he declared he had thought out and
completed plans regarding the military
problem and the question of Spain's tor
eign policy. ~--'---' 1890 ----
They are my favorite subjects of med-
tation," he observed, land / have certain
mature ideas of my own regarding them.
/ have even carried out some preliminaries
respecting alliances which hope will some
day yield excellent fruits. This, in my
Judgment, is the capital point, because
The proud isolation of Great Britain has
been and is deadly to Spain. ] must pass
the same judgment On the policy of go
ing about begging for protection and inter-
vertion.
THE result of such a policy can only be
to reduce to the condition of Greece or
Servia the Spanish nation. which was once
the mistress of the world"
|. Don Carlos spoke eloquently of the neces-
si;y for prosecuting the war 10 the utmost.
our peoples wonderful nerve, spirit of
resolution and exalted sentiment Of hopLr
are" he said the only force Spain can
bring to a nation with which she may
strike an alliance in the day of the coming
European confiagration. She must. there
fore. preserve iealously that force and spir-
it. The only disasters possible for us now
are moral disasters, for we have no further
material ones to suffer. having suffered all.
Therefore, IT, for example, Admiral Ger
vera surrounded by forces ten times
perior to his own. and having been granted
a chance TO caDitulate on conditions, COM
parativeIy honorable. should prefer to make
a sally and lose all his vessels. sinking at
the same time many American warships
as he could. he would do not only an heroic
deed. but also useful work by preserving
| 10 Spain the aureola of which no enemey
has yet been able to deprive her"
LONDON, June N.-Thc Madrid corre-
spondent of the Daily Mail. commenting
on an interview with Don Carlos. pub
| lished I'm FL impartial says: The fact
that his son and heir, Don Jaime. Is serv-
| Ing in the Russian army, may be an indi-
| cation of the direction Don Carlos leans
| as regards alliances. His statements hint
| very clearly that If the Spanish govern
| ment yields TO the United States On con-
ditions he regards dishonorabe. he will
| interfere to try 20 save Spain from
! shame