The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-06-21
CARLOS THREATENS.
Warns Spaniards That He Will Rise
and Shine After the War

Madrid via Biarritz, June A.-El I'm
parcia1 publishes an interview it's cor
respondent has had with Don Carlos.
AS it is understood that the pretender
revised the interview before it was
published, his statements may be re-
garded as in the nature of a manifesto.
Don Carlos said:
Il won't conceal from you that when
I 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 were prOSti-
tuting our country by a series of I'M
Imaginable humiliatiOnS, but when 1
learned that war against the United
States was imminent and might be de-
clared at any moment, changed my
resolutions and firmly decided to OBJ
serve the most absolute impaSSiveneSS.
''Unswerved from this decision, do
not desire to create the least difficulty
for my country, since it is most i'm
portant that all her children should
sacrifice themselves for her. My en-
forced inaction put me to despair, but
carry it to the extreme of depriving
myself of expressing my opinion as to
current events.
THE governing statesmen who have
committed the crime of not preparing
the nation for war everyone saw to
be unaVOida BILE for the last two years
will never be able to accuse me of hav-
ing withdrawn a single Spaniard from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 take the responsibilities of
their mistake. This attitude of mine
will last so long as the present condi-
ton of affairs endures, but when the
hour for the great settlement arrives, L
shall make up for my present silence.
I will then take my revenge, not by
means of words alone, but by means of
acts and I will do that as soon as my
conscience as a. Spaniard permits me to
do it, I am firmly resolved to fulfill
my duty to the end and to omit no sac
rifice in order to redeem and aVenge
SPAIN"
Don Carlos questioned as to the po-
Icy he would adopt in case he should
mount the throne, said he could not en-
ter upon that subject now beyond adj
hitting the necessity of large in
crease in the navy, but he declared he
had thought out and completed plans
regarding the military problem and the
question of Spain's foreign policy.
"rThey are my faVorite subjects OF
meditation" he observed, land have
certain mature ideas OF my own re-
garding them. I have even carried
some preliminarieS respecting alliances
which 1 hope will some day yield ex-
cellent fruit. This, in my judgment, is
the capital point, because the proud is
olation 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 IN
''The result OF such a policy can only
be to reduce to the condition of Greece
or Servia the Spanish nation, which
was once the mistress of the world"
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 1.-The only force
that Spain can bring to a nation with
which she may strike an alliance in the
day of the coming European confiagra-
ton. She must, therefore, preserve
jealousIy that force and spirit. The
only disasters possible for us now are
moral disasters for we have no further
material ones to suffer. having suffered
all.
Therefore, If, for example, Admiral
'Cervera, surrounded by forces ten times
superior to his own and having been
granted a chance to capitulate on con-
ditions comparatively honorable. should
prefer to make a sally 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 enc
my has yet been able to deprive her."