Sunday morning globe., 1901-12-01
CARLISTS OF spain.
The Analogy Between the British
JacObiteS and Spanish CarllStS.
THE DETHRONED KINGS
Or Both Make tho Same Mistakes and Suffer
tho Same vlCIssliudss Pen Pictures Of
tho Pretenders and Leaders Of the Don
Carlos Type Of MonarOhIsts The - CatISS
OF tho Present Day.


tury and during the first half Of the
eighteenth, the British Jacobites stuck
to the cause Of their king over the
water, as they Wer won't to say in
drinking to his health and success.
The Spanish Jacobites OF the nine
teenth century have displayed as much
loyalty during seventy years to fall
en- and equally hopeless cause. There
are many common features in the his
tory Of the Jacobites OF Great Britain
and that Of Carllsm in Span. To be-
gin with, the dethroned and exiled
Stuarts committed the same mistakes
as the elder and male branch Of the
Spanish BOurbons. Both refused to
bow to the spirit OF the age, Both
declined to make necessary conces-
sions. Both obstinately clung to their
ideals Of absolute monarchy OF person
al government and a programme Of
reli gious intolerance. Both blindly
listened to shortsighted partisans.
Both plunged into desperate ventures
when Il was evident that success was
utterly impossible. They did differ In
some respects, however. The FIRST
Spanish Pretender did not like James
II, desert his post, but on the contrary
fought long for the rights he claimed
under the Salic law. James ii never
drew his sword but once to recover his
own. The first Castilian Pretender,
Don Carlos V Of Spain, as his partisans
styled him, only went into dednitive ex-
lie after a seven years civil war.
The second and third Spanish Pre-
tenders were men who had neither
the brains nor the energy required to
reorganize Carlism or to make any
tnlng but weak attempts that ended
In defeat and the capture Of Don Juan.
&c fourth Pretender, Don Carlos Seti-
mo. now In his flfties, has shown none
of the brilliant parts and personal gal
lantry that redeemed the faults OF the
two last British Pretenders. He has
been al along a gloomy bigot, a mar
row-minded absolutist, a prince who
never concealed that he shared all the
animoslty Of the Church OF Rome In
Spain against Liberalism and modern
social tendencies In the field he
showed no qualities as a commander,
leaving the whole direction Of the cam
paigns to his generals and 'gueri-
! leros." His love of ease and pleasure,
his excessive gallantry to the fair sex,
| the favor he lavished upon unworthy
favorites displeased and disgusted his
most devoted followers among the
hardy mountaineers Of the Basque
provinces and Navarro.
He seems to have settled down when
he married for the second time at 90
years of age. His present partner Is
an Austrian lady of high lineage, a
Rohan, who is said to be accomplished
and ambitious He has no issue by
his second marriage By his first he
had several daughters and an only son
and heir, Don Jaime de Bourbon, a
bright intelligent, active man Of %
years. who has been serving since 1926
in a crack regiment Of Russian cav
airy.
Most Carlists would like to see Don
Carlos, abdicate his alleged rights and
make way for Don jaime who is
| known to fret because his father and
the little court at Viareggio have thus
far restrained him. He would fain
have entered North Spain at the close
of the war with the United States to
take advantage Of the widespread dis
content caused in the army and navy
and in the nation by the wretched
MANAGEMENT Of the Spanish land
! forces. He thought that Carlism was
/ losing a golden chance OF calling upon
Ia proud, sensitive people to make a
/ trial OF the one regime that had not
] been tried for three-quarters OF a
century and which might perhaps have
had temporary success after the poor
/ results Of seventy years OF parliamen-
/ tary governments. Don Jaime and the
majority Of the Carlists imagined that
an appeal ought to be made to the rec.
directions Of the glorious past Of Spain
under her ancient Catholic monarchy.
Everybody knows that never did the
/ doings Of Carlism excite more anxiety
among the present rulers in Spain
[ than in the months before and after
| the peace treaty Of 1898 with the
! United States, This is why the Carl
/ list bitterly reproach the Pretender for
/ wasting time in listening to the Aus.
trian court or in consulting the Vati-
can. IL must be said. nevertheless,
that there is something in the plea put
! forward by the friends Of the Pretend
err that after the loss of the colonies
and at the close OF the war with the
| United States he was paralyzed by the
same influences the same considera-
tions that held him back at the death
/ OF Alfonso XII in 1885, when the long
regency Of Queen Christina began-the
fact that Pope Leo XIII so determined
ly supported the Alfonsist monarchy
and the fact that the courts all over
the continent minated on both ooca-
sions that they would view with dis
! pleasure any attempt to overthrow the
present regime in Spain,
Who are the Carlists nowadays in
| the peninsula? The bulk Of those who
still hope against hope that their
"Senor Ray" will have his own again
are to be found among the peasantry
and inhabitants OF small towns and
some large town. too. OF the Catalan
provinces OF Lerida, Corona, Terra
gona and Barcelona in the Valencian
. provinces OF Castellon and Valencia
nroper, in the Aragonese districts Of
Saragossa and Teruel In the whole
province OF Cuenca. in Navarro. and
the three Basque provinces Of Alava,
Gulpuzcoa and Biscay There are Car.