The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-05-15
don CARLOS and HIS CAUSE
VIEWS ON PRESENT POSITION
OF SPAIN

He Says the CarIists Are Increasing
in Strength and Efficiency of Or
| ganizati0n I'm Standardization
| of the Claimant for the Crown
From the London Telegraph.
In every essential aspect the latest
manifesto issued by Don Carlos de
Bourbon confirms the statements YER
bally made by his royal highness on
Aug. II, 1897, in the course of an inter-
view granted by him to our special
correspondent at Lucerne, where the
| prince, whom millions of Spaniards re-
gard as their rightful sovereign, was
at that time sojourning with his august
consort. 1t may be remembered that
Don Carlos, in allusion to the murder
of Senior Canovas de Castillo, which
had then recently taken place, describ-
ed the deceased statesman-who, as a
politician, had been one of his most
steadfast and successful opponents as
being afraid Of the United States.
coWed by the tremendous difficulties of
| the Cuban question, tinid in his atti-
tude toward the Spanish people," A
Partisan journal of considerable in
fiuence having O few days previously
attributed to the prince certain senti-
ments and views which his royal high
ness, as he Solemnly declared, had new
er Tor moment entertained, he earn
estly requested our correspondent TO
dlsaVoW them on his behalf in the COL
umns of this journal.
1t has been asserted" he said, that
my feSolute abstinence from taking any
active steps to vindicate my hereditary
rights In Spain for the last two years
mas been due to a chivalrous reluctance
on on, my part TO add to the already pain
rul and perilous embarrassments of a.
woman and a child. This allegation is
entirely without foundation in fact NV
fetlcence has been solely ascribable to
less romantic but more patriotic
cause. L am Spaniard 'avant tout
ana as such 1T was not for me, while
uesp!te the enormous sacrifices made
py the mother country to re-establish
law and order in the daughter coIonv
and the heroic eXertions of nv corn,
parrots In that direction-the Cuban
lhsufrect1on remained unuueIled tn
hamper any Spanish government in IT'S
course Of action by aggravating its
Slandlng difficulties abroad with fresh
Solnpiicatlons at home. I might, and
old, d1Sapprove of the attitude assumed
toward the United States by the Can
oVas administration. The American re-
monstrances and hints at possible in
IerFentlon We're merely SO MANY bal
IONS dessa1,' not at all to be taken AN
grand serieux.' They should have been
met by a firm and dignified Refused To
ADMIT OF any interference on the part
o. a foreign state with the affairs Of
Spain. The government al Washineton
l Ieel certain, was only trying it on
as you English say, and would have
withuraWnr Its eXtravagant pretensioas
nag they been resolutely repealed.
-. however, as far as I was conserved.
lhe incontrovertible fact remained that
~ Hrue patriot could be justified in
putting obstacles in the way Of a cab
met engaged in the strenuous endeav.
OF 10 suppress the rebellion in Cuba
what country, I would ask, has done
30 !nuch as poor, needy, distracted
SPAN to maintain the territorial in
Iegr1ty Of its colonial possessions?
EVen Great Britain, with her vast do
hoe IN every quarter Of the globe,
mas never yet dispatched 20O,0 900 regular
troops from her shores within the space
VI Two years in order to extirpate dis
anectlon and restore public TRANQUILITY
wIthln Inc limits of any one of her de-
'pendeneleS. Spain has endured her
mlstortunes and sorrows with heroic
Lortltuoe, and he would have been in
agra.
waited her sufferings by provoking in
testlnal commissions when she was val
1dntly STRIVING against an adverse fate
what is wanted in Cuba is unflinching
severity In REFRESHING the rebellion. fol-
loWeo py generous concessions to local
requirements and popular ASPIRATIONS
DON CARLOS PATRIOTISM.
IN these sentences lics the forecast of
Ion carlos manifesto, the keynote of
"hlch Is patriotism. Now, as eight:
months ago, he uncomprornisingly st:g
Ilatlzes as traitor to his country thu
Gsrllst who in the face of a war with
the United States should rise in arms
asalhst the actual government of Spain.
0hould that war come TO pass. he adds
Win generous fervor, "all those who
shalI nsht against the foreigner who
lnsuits us Will deserve well of Carries },
OH the other hand, should the govern.
inent fail to vindicate the national
i ~ oy refusing to accept the proffer-
Iu sage ~ OF oattle and acquiescing in the
ioss OF CUBA, the Duke of Madrid will
brand with treason the Carlists who
snail rot respond to his call: in other
words, who shall fail to rallv to The
nag which, it may be assumed he will
raise in the northern provinces With q
view to overthrowing the present ra-
OSIoUiiSlllHS mS9lf uDOn tho
spanish throne. 1t would be idle to
undervalue the Importance of this
courageous and energetic prince as
factor IN the knotty problem now cali
ny Tor solution in the Iberian PENN
sula. Don Carlos is in the Drima ~
!lfe-he was born in the "Red year.
just half a century ago-of great eta
lure ana PHYSICAL strength, an intrenid
ana experienced soldier, and one Of
the few living Spaniards who. as the
acknowledged leader of a noIiticaI
party, knows exactly what he wanfs
ana means to have It. "couta GO
coute. He is extremely wealthy in
virtue OF the enormous fortune he
queathed to him by the late Con1to a.
ChamDord, whose landed pronertV os
we well as a personality valued at $1,000.
0oo; Don Carlos inherited on the death
Of Henri Cinq." I'LL
10 vast number Of Frenchmen &c
Well as Spaniards, Don Carlos renraS
SCENTS the principle of legitimate mon
archy IN France and Spain alike. Re-
garded from financial point of viaW,
ne is in position to equip and sat
powerful army in the field without
raising loan or issuing 'sroyal prom
lssory notes." to be liquidated by the
national exchequer, should his Followers
succeed in setting him firmly on the
Spanish throne. The force of which he
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