Show EYLER AGAIN t Revies the tIle Americans n English and the Cubans j 1 HE lIE WOULD HATE RA YE ON ONt ONS t S EXPLAINS MB oj FOB TOR USH ING UNCLE New York Nov N V IS A dispatch to t the Herald from Paris says Geneil i Weyler has baa emerged rr m his shell sh ll fires some hot shot at Anglo AngloS X bS In general in an interview given to O the llie correspondent He opened l by saying that he be once more protested against the abominable reputation ere cre created for him by the American n and Eng English English English lish journals ls for political purposes He continued When I was of Cuba and was the sovereign sovereignty ty of Spain Spam in that colony the least feast of my acts of war was distorted by the press of the he t E nations natt nb I never nevoN troubled myself about that for forI I I always did only my duty dut as a soldier without rending lOading ear eat to rumors of what was wait going on outside my I have noted since with sorrow that these lying tortes stories these calumnies cal have h ve found an echo in Europe It has required the events in the and the stories of the real cruelties committed upon the Boers Beers by b Lard Lad Roberts Roberto and the English for European Europe n military writers to acknowledge that I 1 never conducted myself in Cuba as the th British have hav done in South Africa People are now beginning to tu do me ju jus lice tIc Reviles th he Cubans C us rt 4 The truth of the matter is thai that I carried on the war var in Cuba Guba with the rigor which war requires You cannot run tilts of courtesy und and nd generosity with rebel rebe and negroes like our revolted Cubans who were ac accustomed C CU U tomed to massacre hi In horrible fash fashion fashIon fashion ion the soldiers they had captured People should have bave seen our poor Spanish soldiers those brave little sol sob soldiers 1 diers of cf 19 and 20 years of age fighting with the Cubans to understand the thereal thereal i ireal real horror of that war People would have to have seen the excesses of which the Cubans were guilty in the treat treatment treatment treatment ment of their prisoners to have hav seen them torturing them and putting them I through a slow martyrdom and muti mutilating I bating lating their dead bodies to understand I the peculiar character of that war But never mind that I did my duty I as a soldier and am ready to do It I again My iry best reply to my tradUcers is the esteem and affection in which I Iam Iam i am held by the whole Spanish army the marks of devotion which have nave al always always j ways been be 1 lavished upon me by b my 1 companions in arms both those in I ICu Cuba Cu a and those of the peninsula I Explaining his presence in the liberal i party General Weyler remarked that 1 it was the result of recent events I If Canovas were living I should be beat beat beat at his side I r should be a soldier pure and simple But there are cases when the safety of ones country obliges one oneto oneto oneto to stifle ones feelings te of repugnance and undertake a task which one would prefer to leave in the hands of others Brags of His Ability If I had been able to gather to together together together gether a strong conservative party af after after after ter the death of Canovas I should have prevented the loss of Cuba As the head of the Spanish troops which were then in the island I should have driven driven driven en the thc Americans Am ricans into the sea The i hasty levie of Americans would never have been able to cope with the Span bards I should never have asked for fora a fleet to be sent to me lIy Iy resources down there inC in Cuba ba were were quite am ample amI ampIe pIe General Blanco made terrible mis mistakes mistakes mistakes I takes He concentrated concentTa ted all aU his troops in Havana instead of adopting tactics which would have permitted him to devote his efforts to the points threat threatened ened by the Americans It would have nave been easy to save Santiago by dis dispatching dispatching patching p there reinforcements at an early earl stage and with greater rapidity But it is too late ate now the good of crying over spilt milk Poli Poll Politics tics lost us our colonies No blame whatever can attach to the army All An that it did was as to obey orders It was in no wise vise responsible for our disaster Today if it be necessary for the good goodof of Spain for me rue to give my assistance and my m personal support to a political party I J will certainly do so If the liberal Ubera party needs me to reconstitute and undertake a campaign in conform conformity ity with its traditions tra of liberty and I 1 progress I will give my help heli to the liberal party but I will consent to be bea a politician for six or eight ight months only Immediately afterward I will wilt once again become a soldier that and nothing more It is my opinion that If Marshal Marsha Martinez Campos had remained purely and simply a soldier his fame would w uhl have been all the greater er Belittles the I So far as the movement is concerned General Weyler W says it is doomed to failure particularly in Cata I lonia r said he no longer has many partisans in Catalonia Cataloni and the ther reason r ason Is te this The peasants and peo people people pie living in the country were gener generally enet ally and are still more inclined to Carl ideas than all the others Now the greater part of the agricultural dis die and particularly the ing districts have become owing to the revival of the vineyards ards of France and to the Ule which has been prevalent in Spain since 1890 industrial I districts The peasant has become an artisan and from a he has de developed dev I v o ed into a socialist ll tinged it may be with anarchism Consequently Don Carlos arlos will not find him inclined to follow his flag I ve the present pre ent move movement movement I ment meat be an absolute failure If I Iam Iam Iam am mia mis mi ken and there should be tie a ris na I lag ing so much the worse It must be stifled without loss of a moment and a nd with Uh the most pitiless energy 1 I will wills I s see e tu to that |