The record-union., 1898-06-21
DON CARLOS.
MANIFESTO OF PRETENDER TO
SPANISH THRONE.
Says He Will Keep Passive Until
the War is Closed, But Will
Then Take His Revenge.

MADRID (via BiarritZ, France), June
2O-"El Imparcial' publishes an inter
view it's correspondent has had with
Don Carlos. AS it is understood that
the pretender revised the interview be-
fore it was published, his statements
may be regarded as in the nature of
manifesto. Don Carlos said:
won't conceal from you that when
l left Venice last April 1 was resolved
to protest by means of force and arms,
that is, by ordering my partisans to
rise against the people who We're pros
ututing our country, by a series of
unimaginable humiliations. but when l
turned that wayEwar against the Unit
ed States was imminent, and might be
declared any moment, and / changed
my resolutions and firmly decided to
observe the most absolute impassivity
"Unswerved from this decision, l do
not desire to create the least difficulty
Tor my country, since it is most i'm
portant that all her children should
sacrifice themselves for her My en-
forced inaction puts me to despair. but
| carry it to the extreme of depriving
myself, even of expressing my opinion
as to current events
he governing statesmen, who have
committed the crime of not preparing
the nation for a war every one saw
to be unavoidable for the past 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OF having withdrawn a single Spanish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 con-
tinually to American demands and
they will have to take the response
bilities of their mistakes.
This attitude of mine will last so
long as the present condition of affairs
endures, but when the hour for the
great settlement arrives l 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 Spaniard permits me to do it,
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 pol
icy 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 in
crease in the navy, but he declared he
had thought out and completed plans
regarding the military problem and the
question of SPANS foreign policy
Don Carlos spoke eloquently of the
necessity for prosecuting the war to
the utmost Our peoples wonderful
nerve, spirit of resolution and exalted
sentiment of honor are he said. "the
only thing that Spain can bring to
nation with which she may strike an
alliance in the day of thes coming Eu-
ropean confiagration. She must, there
FORE preserve jealousy that force and
spirit. The only disasters possible for
US now are moral disasters, for we
have no further material ones to suf-
fer, having suffered all.
Therefore, if, for example, Admiral
Cervera, surrounded by forces ten times
superior to his own and having been
granted chance to capitulate on con-
ditions comparatively honorable, should
prefer to make a rally and lose all his
vessels. sinking at the same time as
many American warships as he could.
he would do not only an heroic deed,
but also a useful work by preserving to
Spain the aureola of which no enemy
has yet been able to deprive her.