Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1898 — WILL SEE CIVIL STRIFE [ARTICLE]

WILL SEE CIVIL STRIFE

Signing of the Treaty of Peace May Be Siijnal for an Insurreetloa in Spain. Chicago, Aug. 4. —The Record’s staff correspondent in Paris cables the following: “An ex-cabinet minister, an old Spanish republican, with the martial air of a prominent Spanish politician of a quarter-cen-tury ago, is now in Paris, and spoke freely with me upon conditions in his own country. He says that with the coming of peace the trouble in Spain only begins. The armed struggle against the government, he said, probably would be started by the Carlists. ‘ln fact,’ he declared, ‘as I now speak rumors come that It has already begun. In spite of the awful poverty in Spain the clerical party, which is heartily devoted to the Carlist cause, is possessed of enormous wealth, and this time, as formerly, the church will furnish money for the insurrection. The republicans, lam sorry to say, are poor, disorganized and divided, but possibly the Carlist uprising will cause a coalition, at least temporarily, between the republicans and the revolutionists on the one hand and the liberal monarchists on the other, for the success of the Carlists would mean the worst kind of monarchist absolutism and clerical fanaticism. Hence I doubt if the Carlists can succeed, but, at any rate, they can greatly embarrass the government. Their armed bands, composed as they are of fanatics, will be more than a match for our young recruits. “ ‘Worse than all, if the whole Cuban debt is saddled on Spain she is lost. I think It would be only fair to divide the debt equally between Cuba, Spain and America. I hope Spain will lose the Philippines, as keeping them will only add to the misery of my country. It cannot do better than unload them on America.’ ’’