The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-06-21
DON CARLOS WAITING.
When Proper Moment Arrives VIII
Move 20 Avcnge Spain.

Move 10 AvcnRe Spain.
Madrid, June 20, via Biarrltz,' June 20
El impartial publishes an interview its
correspondent has had with Don Carlos.
As it Is understood that the pretender
revised the interview before IL was pub
lished his statements may be regarded as
in the nature of a manifesto.
Don Carlos said: Il won't conceal from
you, when ! left Venice last April. l was
resolved to protest by means of force and
ayms-that Is, by ordering my partisans
TO rise against the people who were prosti-
tuting our country by a series Of unimag-
lnablo humliations, but when l learned
that war against the United States was
imminent and might be declared at any
moment, | changed my resolution, and
firmly decided to observe the most alb
solute impassiyeness.
"Unswerved from this decision, do not
desire TO create the least difficulty for my
country. since 1t is most important that
all her children should sacrlice them
selves for her. My enforced inactlon puts
me to despair, but I carry IL TO the ex-
treme Of deprivng myself even of ex-
pressing my opinion as to current events.
The government statesmen, who have
committed the crime OF not preparing the
nation for war every one saw to be un-
avodable 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be able to accuse me of having Withdrawn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 responsibilities
OF their mistake This attitude of mine
will last so long as the present condition
! of affairs endures, but when the hour for
| the great settlement arrives, / shall make
| up for my present silence. / will then
| take my revenge, not by means of words
| alone. but by means of acts, and / viii
do that as soon as my conscience as O
| Spaniard permits me to do ID. | am firm
ly resolved TO fulfil my duty to the end
and to omit no sacrifice IN order TO redeem
and avonge Spain"
| Don Carlos questioned as TO the policy
| he would adopt In case he should mount
| the throne, said he could not enter on that
| subject now beyond admitting the neces-
| sity for a large increase In the navy, but
he declared that he had thought out and
completed plans regarding the military
problem and the Question of Spain'e for
eign policy.
They are my favorite subjects of medi.
| taton,' he observed, land / have certain
mature IDEAS of my own regarding them
| | have even carried some preimlnarles re-
! spccting alliances which hope
viii some day yield excel
| lent fruits. This, In my Judgment
! Is the capital point, because the proud iso-
| latlon of Great Britain has been and Is
| deadly 20 Spain j must pass the same
| Judgment on the policy Of going about beg
! ging for protection and Intervention.
| The result of such q policy can only he
TO reduce to the condition of Greece oi
| servia, the Spanish nation, which was
once the mistress of the world"
| Don Carlos spoke eloquently of the ne
cessity for prosecuting the war to the ut
! most. "Our peoples wonderful nerve
| spirit of resolution and exalted sentiments
| OF honor are" he said "the only force
| Spain can bring to a nation with which
| she may strike an alliance in the day OF
coming European eenaa grafton She
must. therefore, preserve jealously that
| force and spirit. The only disasters pos
| sible for us now are moral disasters. for
we have no further material ones to suf-
| fer, having suffered all.
Therefore ", for example, Admiral Ger
vera, surrounded by forces ten times su-
perlor to his own and having been grant
ed chance to capitnlate on conditions
| comparatively honorable, should prefer 10
! make a sally and lose all his vessels,
sinking at the same time as many Ameri-
can warships as he could. he would do
| not only an heroic deed, but also useful
work by preserving to Spain the aureola
| of which no enemy has yet been able to
deprive her"