The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-09-18

| PEELED the hostility which certain liberal
elements showed to your ministry?''
These incidents | am certain have
induced the Liberals to make common
cause with the government. Each will
MAINTAIN his distinctiveness and his as
plratons. but against Cleriealism we
"are all agreed and united | tell YOU
emphatlcally that the hour has come
when the liberal, dynastic governmental
party must come to a solution, even if
there is no other solution in view than
that of force.
q do not desire this solution. to
which IN any case [ shall not con-
tribute, but it may be produced one day
by the explosion of public opinion. if
the Liberal party fails in its efforts
and If 1t can not continue to remain in
power | can see very we'll that the
elements which are hostile to the DIV
nasty. la demagogie moire, are doing
their best to embroil US with the Vati-
can and to prevent our remaining in
F.! power.
| ''They cry out everywhere against
Canalejas It is not against the man.
it is against the entire Liberal party.
for they are under the delusion that
the Conservative government could
maintain the status quo. The status
quo is done with. Spain does not want
it any more and will not bear it.
cit has been said that this policy
came from foreign influences. It has
been suggested that this influence was
due to advice given by people in high
position belonging to the French gov
eminent and to the royal family of Eng
land. This is to misjudge our King,
and it is also an unjust attack upon the
perfect discretion of persons against
whom in this way the hatred of the
Spanish Clericals blazes forth. Indeed
they might just as we'll say that all for
eign statesmen. all the intellectual
worth of the world is bringing pressure
on our King, for there is not single
publication in the civilized world which
does not applaud this birth of a liberal
spirit and of the laicality in Spain
''Naturally the King. like every en-
| lightened man, can not and will not cut
himself off from the universal trend of
| thought. But in this particular case,
| he is actuated above all by deep per-
sona1 conviction. Don Alfonso is a fer
vent Catholic. but he has a well-inform
ed mind, open to all great ideas. He
studies with the most serious attention
the growth of contemporary civiliza-
ton He is liberal and tolerant, and it
nv estimation seems biased one can
rely on that of iIlustrious professors of
| the university, republicans and ration
alists. who have had the opportunity of
! conversing with him on professional
/ matters.
s'I can. moreover, affirm that the
King is really constitutional. and that
without ignoring his prerogratives, he
follows the dictun of popular opinion
and places his confidence in the minis
ters supported by the majority in par
lament
4 "Finallv will add that the attitude
! of the army, which is enlightened, pa
triotic. loyal. animated by an ire
proachable discipline. enables us to face
all the threats of disturbances with per
feet equanimity.
Nevertheless, we are anxious to get
rid of all these problems which have
stopped the political development of
Spain. We could then devote ourselves
actively to the reconstruction OF our
finances, of our administration, and to
| the study of economic questions whlcn
are the principal preoccupatlon OF the
countries which have been able to free
themselves from the obsession of the
/ ipterrelation of church and state. Unt1l
we can in turn give our whole and ex-
elusive attention to these things. we are
obliged to carry everything on stimuli
taneously. As soon AS parliament re
! assemblies. we shall submit to the Cor
| ties regular program of reforms which
will give satisfaction. / think, to pub
| lie opinion.
sI think I have proved that | am. OF
all the nonarchists, the one who has
! brought the greatest interest to the la
Dor question. Ny academic speeches.
nv founding of the Institute of Social
| Reform. which I had conceived with
| breadth which has not been maintained
in actual organization, my campaigns
for personal military service and for
| the redical alteration of the taxes, es-
| peciaily the customs, authorize me to
call myself not actually a socialist, but
one who is actuated by a very liberal
social shirt. In this connection the
/ eneach of the throne formulates prom
| ises which have never been contemplat-
cd by the Spanish government. FOR
some time. unfortunately, the labor So
cialism. allied to the republicans, has
taken a revolu4 onary turn. paying less
| attention to social reform itself than
TO the organization of series of strikes
which might produce serious trouble,
infame the proletariat masses. rms
also owing to our efforts. is quoting
down. and I think that this very day
the strikes at Bilbao, Gijon and Santan-
! der are coming to an end.
II hope to succeed in convincing the
Spanish workmen that the King and ms
ministers will place no other restriction
mon social reforms than the duty OF
not disturbing national economy, OF not
in turing private rights and of not de-
stroving the equilibrium of the budget.
These points conceded, we shall go as
far. farther even, than the leaders OF
Spanish republicanism have ever prom
| ised to 90.
HWe shall endeavor to appease the
PASSIONS. the antagonisms | expect TO
| succeed, for the Spanish workman has
good common sense which protects him
/ from the Indictment of agitators. 1t
! il nv deeds, by administrative and leg
! is1ative measures and not by speeches
| that we shall endeavor to attain our