The San Francisco call., 1898-06-21
DON CARLOS
 YET TALKING Pretender Poses as HaV- ing Lofty Motives. WHY HIS PLANS CHANGED WOULD NOT INTERFERE WHILE
 WAR WAS BREWING.
Tells How Admiral Cervera Has Chance of Preserving to Spain the "Aureola of
 Honor."
Special Dispatch to The Call.

MADRID (via Biarritz, France), June 20.-El Imparcial publishes an in- terview its 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 a manifesto. Don Carlos said:
 T won't conceal from you that when I left Venice, last April, I was resolved to protest by means of force and arms that is, by ordering my partisans to rise against the people who were pros tituting our country by a series of un- imaginable humiliations-but when l turned that way war against the United States was imminent and might be declared any moment, and I changed my resolutions and firmly decided to observe the most absolute impassivity. Unswerved from this decision, do not now desire to create the least difficulty for my country, since it is most import ant that all her children should sacri- fee themselves for her. My enforced inaction puts me to despair, but carry it to the extreme of depriving myself even of expressing 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the nation for war every one saw to be unavoidable for the last two years, will never be able to accuse me of hay ing withdrawn single Spanish will from the national forces in the fight with the United States. They brought on the war by yielding continually to Amerlcdn demands and they will have to take the responsibilities of their mis- fell ie. <.f ,vsIl as long as the present condition of af- fairs endures, but when the hour for the great settlement arrives I shall make up for my present silence. 1 will then take my vengeance, not by means Of words alone, but by means of acts, and l will do that as soon as my con- science as a Spaniard permits me to do 1t. l 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 en- ter upon that subject now beyond ad- mltting 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 Spain's foreign policy
 They are my favorite subjects of meditation" he observed, "and I have certain mature ideas of my own re- garding them. I have even carried some preliminaries respecting alliances which l hope will some day yield ex- cellent fruits. This, in my judgment, is the capital point because the proud isolation of Great Britain has been and is deadly to Spain. l must pass the same judgment on the policy of going about begging for protection and inter- Vention.
 "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, "the only thing that Spain can bring to a nation with which she may strike an alliance in the day of the coming European conflagra- tion. She must, therefore, preserve jealously that force and spirit. The only disasters possible for us now are moral disasters, for we have no further ma terial 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 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 enemy has yet been able to deprive her"