Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-11-16
WEYLER COMES
OUT OF HIS SHELL
He Fires Hot Shot at Anglo
SaxOnS in General,
LAUDS HIS CUBAN RECORD.
Tells How He Would Have Driven
the Americans into the sea and
saved spanish Colonies

New York, Nov. ia dispatch to
the Herald from Paris says.
General Weylcr has emerged from his
shell and fires some hot shot at Anglo
Saxons in general In an interview CIV
en- to the Figaro's correspondent. lie
opened by saying that he once more
protested against the abominable repu.
tatlon created for him by the American
and English journals for political pur-
poses He continued. when / was
governor general OF Cuba and was de-
tending the sovereignty OF Spain IN
that colony, the least Of my acts OF war
was distorted by the press OF the Eng
fish speaking nations. ! never troubled
myself about that. for / always did on
~ my duts as a soldier without lend
ing ear to rumors Of what was going
on outside my province
IL have noted since with sorrow that
these lying stories these calumnies.
have found an echo IN Europe. il has
required the events IN the Transyaal
and the stories Of the real cruelties
committed upon the Beers by Lord
Roberts and the English for European
military writers 10 acknowledge that 4
never conducted myself In Cuba as the
British have done In South Africa. Peo-
pie are now beginning to do me justice
THE TRUTH or THE MATTER.
THE truth Of the matter IS that /
carried on the war IN Cuba with the
rigOr which war requires. You cannot
run Tits OF courtesy and generosity
with rebel and half civilized negroes
like our revolted Cubans, who were
accustomed 10 massacre. I'm horrible
fashion. the soldiers they had captured
People should have seen our poor
Spanish soldiers. those brave little sol
diers Of nineteen and twenty years OF
age. fighting with the Cubans. TO UNI
derstaud the real horror OF that war.
People would have 10 have seen the
excuses Of which the Cubans Were
guilty IN the treatment OF their prison
ers. 20 have seen them torturng them
and putting them through a slow mar
tyrdom and mutilating their dead bod
les, TO understand the peculiar charac-
ter Of that war
Il DID MY DUTY"
But never mind that. I did my du-
~ as a soldier and am ready 10 DO II
again My best reply to my traducers
is the esteem and affection In which ]
am held by the whole Spanish army
the marks Of devotion which have al
ways been layished upon me by my
companions In arms both those In Gu.
ba and those OF the peninsula
Explaining hts presence IN the liberal
party, General Weyler remarked that
It was the result OF recent events.
III Canovas were living, | should |
be at his side ! should be a soldier
pure aud simple But there are cases /
when the safety Of ones country oblig- |
es one 10 stine ones feeling Of repug-
nance and undertake a task which one |
would prefer 10 leave In the hands Of |
others
WOULD HAVE WHIPPED AAIERI- |
CANS.
III / mad been able 70 gather togeth, |
er a strong conservative party after the |
death Of Canoyas / should have pre-. |
vented the loss OF cuba. At the head |
OF the Spanish troops. which were then /
IN the island. ! should have driven the /
Americans into the sea. The hasty /
levles Of Americans would never have /
been able 10 cope with the Spanisrds |
should never have asked for q fleet |
to be sent 90 me. My resources down
there On cuba were quite ample
General B.anco made terrible mis-
takes. He concentrated all his troops
In Havana, instead OF adopting tactics
which would have permitted him to de-.
vote his efforts 20 the points threatened |
by the Americans, II would have been
easy to save Santiago by dispatchne
there reinforcemenls az an earlier
stage aud with greater rapidity
NO USE CRYING.
"But it is too late now. What's the
good OF crying over split milk? Politics
lost US our colonies. No blame what
ever can attach TO the army, All that
Il ala was 20 obey orders. II was IN
no wise responsible FOR our disaster.
To-day n 10 be necessary for the good
OF Spain FOR me 10 give my assistance
and my personal support TO a political
party. viii certainly do so. II the
liberal party NEEDS me to reConslitute
and undertake a campaign In conf0rmi-
ty with rs ira 1itions OF liberty and
! WIN give my help 20 the
liberal party but I will consent 20 be
a politician for six or eight months
only. Immediately afterWard j viii
once again become a soldler-that and
nothing more.
1T IS my opinion that n Marshal
Martinez Campos had remained purely
and simply q soldier, his fame would
have been an the greater"
THE CARLIsT UPRISING.
SO FAR % the Carlist movement IL
concerned. General Weyler says Il Is
doomed 70 failure, particularly IN Cata-
onia,
"carllsm.' said he. mo longer has