Evening star., 1898-06-21
MANIFESTO FROM DON CARLOS.
Spanish Pretender Advises n Fight +,
the Bitter End,


A dispatch from Madrid. via Riarritz
dated yesterday. says: Ell Impartial pub
fishes an interview it's correspondent has
had with Don Carlos. AS 1t is understood
that the pretender revised the interview
before 1T was published, his statements
may be regarded as in the nature of a
manifesto. Don Carlos said:
Il won't conceal from you that when
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 prostituting our coun-
try by a series of unima ginable humilia-
tions, but when l 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 impassivity
"Unswerved from this decision, l do not
desire to create the least difficulty for my
country, since it is most important that
all her children should sacrifice them
selves for her. My enforced inaction puts
me TO despair, but 1 carry it to the ex-
IRENE OF deprlving myself even of express
ing my opinion as to current events
The governing statesmen who have
committed the crime of not preparing the
nation for war every one saw to be un-
aFoidable 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be able to accuse me of having withdrawn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
Must Take Responsibility.
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 indures; but when the hour for the
great settlement arrives 1 shall make up
Tor 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 ii. l am firmly resolved
to fulfill my duty to the end and to omit
no sacrifice in order to redeem and avenge
SPAIN
ne 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 mill
tary problem and the question of SPANS
foreign policy.
They are my favorite subjects of medi-
tation," he observed. land 1 have certain
mature ideas of my own regarding them.
i have even carried some preliminaries
respecting alliances, which. 1 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 going
about begging for protection and inter-
vention
''rhe result of such policy can only be
to reduce to the condition of Greece or
Servia the Spanish nation. which was once
the mistress of the world
Advice to Cervera.
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 sentiment of honor
are" he said, 1.-The only force Spain can
| bring to a nation with which she may
strike an alliance in the day of the com.
| ing European condagration. She must
therefore, preserve jealously that force and
| spirit. Tne only disasters possible for us
now are moral disasters, for we have nc
further material ones to suffer. having
/ suffered all.
Therefore. II, for example, Admiral Ger