The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-06-21
THE PRETENDER
QUITE PATRIOTIC
Will Not Take Up Arms Against
the Government
WHILE THE WAR CONTINUES
Brought On By Yielding to the Demands
Of America.
MUST TAKE THE RESPONSIBILITIES
After Cessation of HostiIities Don
Carlos Will Take His Revenge.
FIRMLY RESOLVED TO DO HIS DUTY
And Omit No sacrifice in Order to Redeem
and Avenge Spain-WouId Not Dis
cuss Policy He VIII Adopt When
He Ascends the Throne.
After Cessation of HOstiIities Don
Carlos Will Take His Revenge.
FIRMLY RESOLVED TO DO HIS DUTY

Madrid, via Biarritz June 2O.-El Impair
cial publishes an interview its correspond
ent has had with Don Carlos AS it is un-
derstood that the pretender revised the in
terview before 1t was published, his state
ments may be regarded as in the nature of
a manifesto Don Carlos said:
won't conceal from you that when 1
left Venice last April l was resolved to
protest by means of force of arms, that is
by order of my partisans, to rise against
the people who were prostituting our coun-
try by a series of unmitigated humilia-
tions, but when learned that war against
the United States was imminent and might
be declared at any moment 1 changed my
resolution and firmly decided to observe
the most absolute passivity.
"Unswerved from this decision I do not
desire to create the least difficulty for my
country, 1t Is most important that all her
children may sacrifice themselves for her.
My enforced inaction puts me to despair,
but carry it to the extreme of de-
priving myself even of expressing my opin-
ion as to current events.
1.-THE governing statesmen who have COM
mitted the crime of not preparing the
nation for a war every one saw to be un-
avoidabe 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be able to accuse me of having withdrawn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.
Carlos Expects Alliances
"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 1 shall make up
my present silence l will then take my
revenge, not by names of words alone, but
by means of acts and l will do that as
soon my conscience as Spaniard per-
mits me to do it. 1 am firmly resolved to
fulfill my duty to 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 ne
cessity for a large increase in the navy
but he declared that he had thought out
and completed plans regarding the military
problems the question of Spain's foreign
policy.
"They are my favorite subjects of medta-
tion," he observed. land l have certain
mature ideas of my own regarding them. I
have even carried some preliminares re-
specting alliances which 1 hope will some
day yield excellent fruits. This, in my
judgment, is a capital point, because the
proud isolation of Great Britain has been
deadly to Spain. I must pass the same
judgment on the policy of going about beg
ging for protection and Intervention.
1.-The result of such policy can only be
to reduce to the condition of Greece or
Servia the Spanish nation, which was once
I.a aicfr n
Don Carlos spoke eoquently of the neces-
sity for prosecuting the war to the ut
most r1a
spain's Wonderful Nerve
"Our peoples wonderful nerve. spirit Of
resolution and exalted sentiment of honor
are" he said. '.the only force Spain can
bring TO nation with which she may
strike an alliance.
'She must preserve jealously that force
Only disasters possible for us now are
moral disasters, for we have no further
ma teriai ones to suffer, having suffered all
Therefore, If, for example, Admiral Ger
vera, surrounded by forces ten times su-
perior to his own, and having been granted
a chance to capitulate on conditions COM
ratively honorable, should prefer to make
a sally and lose all his vessels, sinking at
the same time as many American warsnips
as he could, he would do not only heroic
deed, but also a useful work by preserving
to Spain the aureo1a OF which no enemy
has yet been able to deprive her."
Brought War by Yielding
London, June 2O.-The Madrid correspond
ent Of the Daily Mail, commenting on an
interview with Don Carlos, published in
El Imparcial, says:
The fact that his son and heir, Don Jaime,
Is serving in the Russian army, may be an
indication of the direction Don Carlos leans
as regards alliance. His statement shows
clearly that If the Spanish government
Yields to the United States on conditions
to try to save Spain from shame.
The French Cabinet
London. June 20-The Paris correspon-
dent of the Daily Mail says:
A cabinet has been formed with Ferdi-
nand Sarrien, as premier; M. De Freycinet,