New-York tribune., 1903-07-26

the annals Of modern or ancient royalty King
Peter should have been welcomed NV the F,r17
perors of Russia, Austria and Germany bv tba
hlhgs OF Italy, Spain and of the other smaller
countries or Europe as brother monarch and
'IlIs MS government should have been recog-
hIzed ny most Of the great powers notwfth-
standing that at least one of his Cabinet minis
ters and three of the principal dignitaries of
MS household were among the actual assassins
OF the unfortunate Alexander and Queen Draga.
mas not been lost upon the disaffected military
onlcers OF other countries.
indeed, the attitude of the great powers IN
connection with the Servian tragedy has been
OF nature to constitute distinct encourapa-
ineht 10 military pronunciamentos to treach-
cry on the part of those who wearing what is
known as the Kings cloth" are sunnosed n
be bound TO him by special ties of LOYALTY and
oeVoton' and even to palace massacres that re-
call Che days OF the old Roman emperors. Little
astohlshment therefore need have been caused
ny the caoied announcement that Prince Ferdi-
nand. threatened with the fate of King Alex
ander, is virtually a prisoner at Sofia in his
palace, which has been barricaded and fortified
against attack, and that King Charles of Portu-
gal is engaged in effecting wholesale arrests
among the officers of his army who are being
court-martialled and condemned to penal depor-
covery of a widespread military conspiracy
against the crown. Young King Alfonso of
Spain King George of Greece, King Charles of
Rumania and the Prince of Montenegro are
likewise threatened with dangers of the same
nature, that is to say, with politico- military
pronunciamentos. destined to deprive them Of
their thrones. But in no other case is the
peril so imminent or the crisis so acute as at
Lisbon and Sofia
Whereas the assassination of King Alexander
at Belgrade has merely had the result of an
other monarch, in the person Of Peter Kara
georgevitch, taking his place on the blood
stained throne of Servia, the overthrow Of Dom
Carlos Of Portugal would in all probability lead
to the establishment of a republic at Lisbon on
the same lines as that of Brazil A large pro-
portion of the officers and soldiers of the Portu-
guese army particularly those belonging TO the
scientific branches Of the latter, are openly pro-
fessed foes of the monarchy, and acknowledge
republicans, who are firmly convinced that their
country will never recover its former pros
perity and its prestige among the nations of the
world until it adopts a form Of government that
exc ses less blighting influence upon the life
of the people than the deplorable rule of the
House of Braganza. Until recently neither the
King nor his ministers were able to gather suf-
hcient courage or to summon enough energy TO
deal with this condition of affairs. They did
not dare to remove Colonel Elias Garcia, one Of
the republican chiefs from his place as pro-
fessor Of military engineering at the army
school at Lisbon, which is the Portuguese coun-
terpart of West Point; nor General Latino
Coelho the ranking officer of artillery from the
presidency of the State Polytechnic School ~
Lisbon and of the National Academy of
Sciences. Yet the general is the second Of the
triumvirate which directs the destues Of the
republican cause in Portugal
True. the King on one occasion caused the
summary arrest at public meeting Of the gen
erals colleague Manuel Arriaga, the celebrated
and popular lawyer, renowned as the most elo-
Quent orator in the land of Camoens. and who
is the third Of the triumvirate. But after Ar