The Washington herald., 1908-02-09

which has just been perpetuated at Lis
bon. are not so much the actual per-
petrators. who seem as usual to have been
eulled from the lower elasses-hars-
brained, half-educated creatures. who
had been made TO believe that they were
belHg robbed of their political rights
but were the people whose pockets and
whose interests have suffered through the
abolition Of sinecures. the suppression OF
administrative dishonesty. and the curb
Ing Of political corruption.
These are the men and women as well.
whg for more than year past have been
denouneing the late King and premier
with such venom and violence for des-
potism and tyranny as 20 inflame the pas
sions OF the fanatics who actually did the
murder.
Grafters Denounced Carlos.
Conservative and Liberal statesmen
have openly denounced King Carlos as
unfit to reign. have urged that he should
be deposed in favor of his sons, or his
brother. while some of the Lisbon news
papers have actually insisted that Charles
deserved the fate Of Louis XVI, namely.
decapitation, for his violation Of the
rights of the people. And the papers IN
question were neither revolutionary nor
republican, but professedly monarchial,
and the organs OF the Conservative and
Of the Liberal party
One word in conclusion with regard "a
the role of England in the event Of any
further trouble in Portugal; a word
which may be timely, in view Of the ap-
parent uncertainty which has been ex-
pressed in print during the last week
about the precise relations existing be-
tween the two governments. They are
bound together by treaties which COnsti-
tute something very much akin to an
English protectOrate over the realm OF
King Manuel H. They are eight In NUM-
Der. some Of them dating back 70 the be-
ginning Of the eighteenth century. One
Of the best known is that negotiated ir
1893 By the Right Hon. Sir John Methuen
ancestor of Lord Methuen, now British
| commaHder-in-chief in South Africa.
Important British Treaty.
But the one which is Of the greatest
Importance in the present situation i:
that supplementIng and confirming al
previous treaties. which was negotiated
and signed by the late Sir Robert Moriel
as British envoy al Lisbon IN 1879. II die
/ not receive at the time the ratification oi
I the Portuguese COTtes, and when a year
afterward. the Lisbon government Sc
cured the legislative majority necessary
( to pass it. the British government Of tbs
/ day, which was d Liberal administration
turned deaf car to Sir Roberts en-
! treaties, and gave him TO understand that
/ IL was not worth botherins any more
about the matter
Fortunately. the late Lord Salisbury re
paired the neglect. and carried out tht
4 project OF Sir Robert Moricr. and com
pleted the instrument in 1893. Its pro
/ visions comprise an undertaking on th'
part of England to safeguard tho Portu
/ guese throne from attacks rot only from
without. but also from within. and Z
/ protect the kingdom and its dependencies
/ from all foreign aggression.
England Gets Concession.
IN return. England received the right t,
embark and disembark troops. stores, an,
munitions at any point on Portuguese
territory. or else to convey them across
! Portuguese territory 10 any point tha
she might see fit. irrespective Of th
/ question as 10 whether she was at va
with any third power. lt was this tina
enabled the English government in III
early part Of 1900 20 land Gen. Sir Fred
erick Darlington and his army at Beira
on the East Coast of Africa, FOR the puF
pose of occupying the northern frontier
of the Transvaal thus cutting of an
Boer attack from that direction.
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