The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1900-11-25
Weller FIRES NOT
SHOT It IhGLO-Sl0Is
Thinks He was Lied
About While in
Cuba.
lE VAS ONLY poIne MS DUTY
lE WAS ONLY DoING HIs 1UTl
SAYS ENGLISH cRueLTiEs IN THE
TRsSsvakI WERE MUCH
WORSE THAN HIS.
HOLDS TO General shernan's Idea That
-wsr RS HE'LL but Does Not er.
press i. With That Old Warriors
6iuntness.

New York. Nov. ia dispatch 10
1he Herald from Paris says:
Gen. Weyler has emerged from his
shell and fires some hot shot al Anglo
szIons In general in an interview Civ
IN TO the Figaro's correspondent Hs
12ened by saying that he once more
protested against the abominable repu-
izfion created for him by the Ameri-
<zn and English journals for political
purposes. He continued:
When ! was Goyernor-General OF
Cuba and was defending the sovereign
y Of Spain in that colony the least Of
nv acts OF war was distorted by the
press OF the English-speaking nations-
1 never troubled myself about that, for
! always did only my duty as soldier,
without lending ear 10 rumors OF " laI
zas going on outside OF my province
i have noticed since with sorrow
that these lying stories. these calum-
nies. have found an echo in Europe. Ii
las required the events in the Trans
xazl and the stories of the real cruel
ties committed upon the Beers by Lord
Roberts and the English for European
military writer's to acknowledge that
I never conducted myself in Cuba Us
People are now beginning to do me JUS
lice
The truth OF the matter is that |
carried on the war in Cuba with a
rigor which war requires. You cannot
run tits Of courtesy and generosity
~-ith rebel and half-civilized negroes
Ike our revolving Cubans who were
accustomed to massacre, in horrible
EashioR. the soldiers they mad captured.
People should have seen our poor
Spanish soldiers those brave little
soldiers OF 10 and 20 years of age.
fighting with the Cubans. to under
stand the real horror OF that war. Peu-
pie would have TO have seen the ey-
ceSses OF which the Cubans were guilty
II the treatment of their prisoners, to
have seen them torturing them through
slow martyrdom and mutilating their
todies, TO understand the peculiar
character OF that war.
But never mind that. | did my duty
IS soldier and am ready to do it
again. Ny best reply to my traducers
n the esteem and affection in which
sm held by the whole Spanish army
zbe marks of devotion which have al
gays been lavished upon me by my
companions in arms, both those ia
Cuba and those of the peninsula"
Explaining his presence in the Libec-
al party. Gen. Weyler remarked that
il was the result of recent events.
IF Canovas were living | should be
IT his side. / should be soldier pure
and simple. But there are cases when
The safety of ones country obliges one
-. II 8
aud 10 undertake a task which one
would prefer TO leave in the hands Of
others.
IL had been able TO gather togeth-
pr strong conservative party after
the death OF Canovas | should have
prevented the loss of Cuba. At the
bend OF the SPANISH troops which were
then in the island | should have driven
rhe Americans into the sea. The hassy
Ieyies of Americans would never have
been able TO cope with the Spaniards.
] should never have asked for a fleet
20 be sent to me- My resources dowg
there Tin Cuba) were quite ample
-GiaR- Blanco made terrible mistakes
He concentrated all his troops in Ha-
vaua, instead of adopting tactics which
would have permitted him TO devote his
snorts To the points threatened by the
Americans. IL would have been easy to
save Santiago by despatching their re-
Inducements at an earlier stage and
sith greater rapidity.
But Il is too late now What's the
use OF crying over split milk Politics
lost us our colonies. No blame what
ever can attach TO the army. All that
u lxa.- T..
wise responsible for our disasters.
Today. IL IL be necessary for the
good Of Spain for me to give my ass;s-
lance and my personal support to po-
Iitical party | will certainly do so. II
the liberal party needs ME 10 recon-
Sifute and undertake a campaign in
e8uforniity with its traditions of liber-
y and progress, will give my help to
the liberal party. but | will consent TO
&c a politician for six or eight months
only. Immediately afterward l will
Rnce again become a soldier-that and
nothing more.
1T is my opinion that il Marshal
Martinez Campos had remained purely
aud simply soldier his fame would
have been all the greater
So far as the Carlist movement is
Soucerned, Gen. Weyier says ii is
doomed TO failure. particularly IN Ca
Ea!onia.
-Carlism." said he. mo longer has
many partiSans in Catalonia and tie
reason is this; the peasants and the
people living in the country We're gen.
orally and are still more inclined 10
Carlists ideas than all the Others. Now
the greater part of the agricultural
districts and particularly the wine
growing districts. have become, owing
10 the revival Of the vineyards Of
France aud TO the phylloxera. which
kas been prevalent in Spain since 1850
industrial districts. The peasant has
become an artisan and from the Carlist
he has developed into socialist re-
publican. tinged. IL may be with anar-
chism. Consequently Don Carlos viii
cot find him inclined to follow his flag.
Il believe the present Carlist move
neut 10 be an absolute failure. II l
am mistaken and there should be ris-
ing so much the worse. Measures Ct
strong repression will be necessary.
Il must be stified without the loss OF /
moment and with the most pitiless en-
xrgy. viii see to that