The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-06-21
SPANISH PRETENDER
Don CARLOS GIVES HIS VIEWS on
THE PRESENT WAN.
Hc Would Have Taken W Arms
Against spnin to Establish his
Claim for II.

Madrid, June ?o.--El Impartial publishes an
interview which Its correspondent had with
Den Carlos. AS VI Is understood that the
prettrdor revised the interview before II wis
puhn.Led, bis statements may he regarded as
la the nature OF q manifesto.
non Carlos said. 81 won't conceal from
YOU that when ! loft Venice last April WAS
rorolved to protest by meana Of arms-that
IT, ordering my partisans 10 rise against tho
pa o,Ie who ARE prostitutng our country by n
ser.c, OF humiliations, but when | learned
that war against the United states might DO
declared at any moment ! changed NY reso-
luton and firmly decided To observe the most
absolute psssiyity.
"Unswcrycd from this decision. do not de-
sire to create tho least difficulty tor my coun-
| try, aS her children should sacrifice them
selves for her. Ny enforced insr'ion puts M
slp despair but l carry II u tbt c&trptae Of
4 dcprtying myself even OF expressing my opin-
| lon as to current eyants.
The governing statesmen have committed
| the crime OF not preparing the nation tor n
war which seemB to have been unavodabiu'
| They brought Oh the war by yielding conunu-
ally IL American demands, and they VIII have
| to take the responsibilities OF their mistakes
| This attitude VIII last AS long az the present
| condition Of AFFAIRS endures, but whom the
hour for tho great settlement arrives snail
| take my revenge, not by meana OF word alone
| but by sets. and | VIII do that aS soon AZ my
f, conscience aB a Spaniard permits me to dc
| n / am firmly resolved to fulhil my duty u
| tho end and to omit no Bacrihce IN order t.
| redeem aud avenge SPAIN
| Don Carlos, questioned ms to the policy b.
| woyld adopt In case he should mount the
| throne said be could not enter that cub
| joct now beyond admitting tho necessity ri
| a large increase In the naval budget and Of
| foi ming alliances with nations friendly to
| ward Spain.
| They are my favorite subjects of media
| ton and ! have certain mature Ideas of ms
J own regarding them. have even carrier
some pfclIminaricB connected with alliances
into effect The result OF Span's begging now
for protection can only be the loss OF aisnity
aniCng her sister bations.
Don Ca~los spoke cloqucnuy Of the neces-
sity for prosecuting the war TO the utmost
"our peoples wonderful nerve and exalted
sentiment Of honor are he said. 'tbe only
forre Spain can bring To nation with which
she may strike an alliance In ths day Ut the
coming European connagraton She must
Il - efore, preserve jealousy that force and
spirit. The only disasters posaihie for US
now are moral disasters, for VIC have no fur-
Their material ones to sufier, having suffered
all. -
Therefore, n, for example. Admiral Ger
vora. surrounded by forces ten times su.
pcrlor to his own, and having been grantee
a CHARGE to capitulate on conditions com
parr lively honorable, should prefer 10 make
rally and lose all bis vessels, whllo at the
same time sinking rs many American war
ehipg ms he can, he would not only do q
heroic deed but also useful work, by pre-
serving To Spain tho aureoia OF which no
enemy has yet been able to deprive her.