The Fairmont West Virginian

Wanted to Regenerate Spain.

(From the New York Sun.)

Marquis de Torre Hermosa, first cousin of the King of Spain, is at present enjoying a yachting and auto-mobiling trip in America with Major J. S. Miller, of New York, son of the multimillionaire Gen. Charles Miller, of Franklin. Marquis de Torre Hermosa was at one time a member of the Spanish Cabinet and says he was slated to become prime minister, but he developed pronounced socialistic views and was practically advised to travel until he changed his opinions. His brother is minister to the United States from Spain.

"My one great wish is to see the regeneration of Spain," said the Marquis, "but I was in too much of a hurry to bring some of the needed changes about to please some of the other officials, so I got out of politics. I am closely studying the situation at home, and I think there are signs that things are changing for the better. I may go back to the marriage of the King, whom I know well. He is a remarkably bright young man, finely-educated and has some progressive ideas.

*They call me a socialist because I have tried to explain to the ministry that what is needed is to have workmen paid about three times as much as they are at present and develop a prosperous country rather than a few rich men. I have told employers of labor that Spain should pay higher salaries and that everyone would grow rich thereby, but they would buy twice as much as they do now and expand every industry."