The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-06-21
DON CARLOS SELF RESTRAINT
SPANISH PRETENDER EXPLAINS
HIS ATTITUDE.
When Spain Is Thoroughly Licked He
VIII Step In and Take What Is
Lsft-High Sounding Talk.

Madrid (via Biarritz, France), June
2o.-El impartial publishes an inter
view 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
manifesto. Don Carlos said:
L won't conceal from you that when
/ left Venice last April l was resolved
10 protest by means of force of arms
that is, by ordering my part;sans to
rise against the people who were pros
tltuting our country by series of I'M
imaginable humiliations-but when 1
termed that wy, war against the
United States was imminent and might
be declared any moment. and changed
my resolution and firmly decided to
observe the most absolute impassivity.
"Unswerved from this decision 1 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
l carry it to the extre4tlf of depriving
myself even of expires ing my opinion
as to current events.
The governing statesmen, WHO have
committed the crime of not preparing
the nation for war everyone saw to
De unavoidable for the last two years,
Will never be able to accuse me of
having Withdrawn a single Spanish
VIII from the nations forces in the
fight with the United States
They brought on the war by yield
ing continually to American demands,
and they will have to take the respon-
sibility of their mistake. This attitude
or mine VIII last so long as the pres
ent condition of affairs endures, but
when the hour for the great settlement
arrives L shall make up for my present
silence. L VIII then take my revenge
not by means of words alone, but by
means of acts, and 1 will do that as
soon as my conscience as a Spaniard
permits me to do it. 1 am firmly re-
solved to fulfill my duty to the end
and to omit no sacrifice in order ia,
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 s.,bject now beyond
admitting the necessity of a large in
crease in the navy, but he declared
ne mad thought out and completed
plans regarding the military problem
and the question of SPANS foreign
policy.
'Ihey are my favorite subjects of
meditation" he observed, and I have
certain mature ideas of my own re-
Sarcing them. l have even carried
some preliminaries respecting alliances
which hope Will some day Weld 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 Servla 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 he said, lis the only thing that
spain can bring to a nation with which
she may strike an alliance in the dav
OF the coming European connagration.
she must. therefore, preserve jealousiy
that force and spirit The only disas-
tiers possible for us now : moral dis
astefs, 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-
ditiCns comparatively honora BILE,
should prefer to make a sally and lose
all MS 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 pre-
serving to Spain the aureola of which
no enemy has yet been able to deprive
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