Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-11-16
BUTCHER WEYLER
oILs HIS TYPEWRITER AND WINS
MORE BATTLES.
HIS GREAT VICTORY OVER U. S.
Would Have Swept Them Into the
Sea Like Dust Before a New
Broom.

New York. Nov. ia dispatch to the
Eerald from Paris says: General Wey-
Ter has emerged from his shell and fires
some hot shot at A~nSlo-SaXonS IN gem
erai in an interview in the Figaro. lie
openea by sayinS that he once more pro
tested against the abominable reputation
created Tor him by the American and En-
glish journals for political purposes. lie
continued: When l was governor gen.
of Cuba and was defending the soNer-
eighty OF Spain in that colony. the least
of my acts of war was distorted by the
press OF the English speaking nations.
l never roubled myself about that for
l went about my duty as l found it.
Il have noted since with sorrow that
these lying stories. these calumnics have
found an echo in Europe. 1t las re-
uuired the events in the TranSNaal and
the stories of the real cruelties COM
mitted upon the Beers by Lord Roberts
and the English for unmilitary writers
to acknowledge that l never onducte
myself in Cuba as the British nave done
In South Africa. People are now begin
rlDg to do NE justice.
THE truth of the matter is that I car
ried on the war in cuba with the rigor
which VIC" ~H'r1i"n- ~""~ot r"H>
tits of courtesy and generosity With
reuel and tai. ,lNlIl1ed negroes IKE our
revolted Cubans, VINO We're accustomed
10 massacre. in horrible fashion, the sol
diers they had captured. People should
nave seen our poor Spanish soldiers.
those brave little soldiers Of 10 and 20
years old. fighting with the C1'bans. I,
understand the real horror of that war.
People should have seen the excuses of
which the Cubars were guilty IN the
Treatment of their prisoners. to have
seen them torturing them and mutilatinE
their dead bodies. to understand the pc
tuliar character Of hat war. But never
mind that. 1 did my duty as a soldier
and am ready to do it again. My best
reply to my traducers is the esteem ana
affection in which I am held by the
whole Spanish army-the marks Of de-
votion which have always been lavlshef
upon me by my companions in arms, both
those in Cuba and those in the penin-
,Suia."
Explaining his presence in the liberal
party. Gen. Weyler remarked that It was
the result of recent events.
IF Canoyas were living. I'should be at
his side. I should be a soldier pure ana
simple. But there are cases when the
safety Of ones country Obliges one 70
sti1e ones feeling of ana
undertake @ task which one would pre-
fer to leave in the hands Of others. II !
rad been able to gather together a strong
conservative party after he death OF
Canovas 1 should have prevented the loss
of Cuba. AT the head of Spanish troops
which were then in the island, l should
have driven the Americans into the sea.
The hasty levies of Americans woul1
never have been able to cope with the
~---:--- 7 .Ln,,11 noy-lr have asked
for a fleet to be sent to me. My resources
down there Tin Cuba>. We're quite ample.
Gen. Blanco made terrible mistakes.
concentrated all his troopsin Havana,
Instead of adopting tactics which would
have permitted him to devote his effofts
to the points threatened by the Amerl-
cans. 1t would have been easy to save
Santiago by di~spatching reinforcements
at an earlier stage n with greater
rapidity, But tits too late now. what's
the good of crying over split milk? Pol
tiles lost our colonies. No blame what
ever can attach to the army. All that
1t did was to obey orders. 1t was IN
no way responsible for our disaster.
Today if it be necessary for the good OF
Spain for me to give my assistance and
my personal support to a political party,
will certainly do so. If the liberal
party needs me to reconstitute and I'M
hertake a campaign in conformity with
Its traditions of liberty anu progress, l
will give my help to the liberal party,
but will consent to be a politician
for six or eight months only. Imme-
diately I will once again be-
come a soldier, that and nothing more.
.It is my opinion that # Marshal Mar
tinez Campos had remained purely and
simply a soldier, his fame would have
been all the greater"
So far as the Carlist movement is con-
cerned, Gen. Weyler says it is doomed
to failure, particularly in Catalonia
"Carlism," said he, no longer has many
partisans in Catalonia, and the reason
Is this: The peasants and people living
in the country We're generally, and are
still, more inclined to Carlist ideas thar
all the others. Now the greater part o
agricultural districts. and particularly
the w~ine-growing districts, have become
owing to the revival of the vineyards
of France and to the phylOXera, which
has been prevalent in Spain since 1890
Industrial districts. The peasant has be
come anti-Carlist and has developed int
a socialist republican, tinged, it mi be
with an anarchism. Consequently Dol
Carlos will not find him inclined to fol
low his flag.
Il believe the present Carlist move
ment to be an absolute failure. If
= am mistaken and there should be a rs
Ing, so much the worse. 1t must b
stihed without the loss of a moment an,
with the most pitiless energy. l wi
Zee to that"