Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-09
THE PORTUGUESE ASSASSINATIONS


The bloody tragedy at Lisbon Is a con-
secration of the truth of the express
sion become historic that:
Nothing There is nothing changed
rh..s except another king The
assassination Of King Car
los and the crown prince, Luiz, will not
advance the cause OF anarchy. and it is
well to emphasize this truth. so that the
obtuse faculties even of the intellectual
regicide may finally comprehend the i'm
placable Specification OF the dtctum: The
king is dead; long live the king A
declaration which since remote times has
defeated and defied the assassin.
Since the commencement of the nine
tenth century eight sovereigns and four
presidents have fallen by the hand of the
assassin-Paul and Alexander III of Rus
STA. the Duke Of Parma. the Sultan Add ell
Aziz of Turkey, King Humbert of Italy,
King Alexander of Seryta. and now King
Carlos and the Crown Prince of Portugal:
President Garnet of France and Presi-
dents Lincoln. Garfield and Mckinley of
the United States.
The regicide is rarely political GRIM
inal, and the maxim. Persistence to ty-
invoked by him. Certainly Alexander III
of Russia. King Humbert and Presidents
Carnot. Lincoln. Garfield and Mckinley
were not tyrants. but progressive rulers
beloved by their people.
1t is proper, therefore, in this moment
to accentuate the non-political character
of the regicide OF the present. whose
cause and action have been identified with
the anarchist whose main object is the
suppression of order and authority.
A. a raj oh
tically no Roadway has been made in I'M
travelling the plot of which the murder
of the king and crown prince was but one
step"
On the I'd instant Manuel. the successor
to the throne. having escaped, as his
mother. Queen Amelie,
ManueIs from the butchery. as if by
necr.a miracle, issued the follow
ing proclamation. which
was published on the afternoon of the I'd.
It said:
IAN abominable crime has stricken the
heart of the son and brother. / know
that the nation shares in my grief and my
Indignation. and that it reproves this hor-
rible crime, without precedent in history
1 am called by the constitution to preside
over the destinies of the nation. and in
consequence l will do all in my power
for the good of the country and to merit
the affection of the Portuguese people.
swear to maintain the Catholic religion
and the integrity of the kingdom. to OBJ
serve the constitution and cause it to he
respected by all. I declare also that it is
my good pleasure that the ministers ac-
tually in power should retain their func-
tons"
King Manuel II was born in November
1880. and consequently has entered his
nineteenth year. Should the fiends who
have killed his father and brother accom-
plish their purpose in killing the boy king
he would be succeeded by the Duke 6f
Oporto, the brother OF the late King Car
los
President Roosevelt fastened to express
his coincidence. and the House of Rep
resentatives passed a unanimous resolu-
ton expressing its profound sorrow and
rendering the people of Portugal its sym
pathy in their national bereavement Tel
egrams Of coincidence have likewise been
sent by all the chiefs of European govern
ments. That of the Dowager Queen Mar
gherita of Italy to Queen Amelie recalled
with painful emotion the assassination of
King Humbert at Monza in 1890: mo
one" said the queen. better than 1 may
comprehend your terrible misfortune. -
\
Senior Franco. who resigned his Office on
the Sd instant, has disclaimed resp onsibil-
ity for the tragedy, being
Francois reported to have said: Il
p..;4,. am not responsible. The
perpetrators were the en-
'emies Of society. not belonging to any po-
litical group. 1 did everything for the
best"
Dictator is a name at which the world
is apt to shy but for a truth it should be
said that dictatorship was often practiced
in Portugal before the reign Of Senior
Franco. 1t is simple justice. therefore. to
say that his intentions were good and
he proposed to establish reforms. The de-
tested. suspicious name of dictator was
perhaps only a pretext, to commit
crime that waited upon an opportunity.
King Manuel II summoned to the lead
a man whose name Is taken from a city
situated on the plains of Campo de Beja.
Rear Admiral Ferreira do Amaral. He
was a member of the progressist-dissident
party. which is liberal, with monarchal
tendencies,
Briefly resumed, Admiral Ferreira is
committed to a reversal OF the dictator
ship methods and the restoration of the
policy known as the "old liberal mon
archy."
The late dispatches refer to what is
cation of the assassin Buica. The latter
was q school teacher, and procured per-
mission to be absent on the day Of the
assassination on the preteXt that he
wished to meet his daughter returning
home from across the Tagus. When
Buica failed to return home at the usual
hOu" the mother sent the child to the
school to inquire for her father. She
was led to the mOrgue, where, shown
the body Of Buica, the child amid sobs
cried out: THAT is my papa
The incident is significant from the fact
that the crime cannot be traced SO far
to political agents of any
Teacher party 1t is a fact, how
ever. that many school
teachers are found on
the lists of members of the anarchistic
societies. a phenomenon which may we'll
puzzle the genius of that eminent GRIM
inal pathologist D'Lombroso. Is it pos
sible. may it not be asked. that we are
confronted in European the world. in
deed-by an organized school of assassins
better known as anarchists?
The student of history need not be re-
minded that 1.-The assassins' or hashishi,
a name taken from the hashsh drug,
formed a society of that name in Persia
toward the close of the eleventh century
and made. themselves powerful in that
country and in Syria. The story o. crime
is a long one and may serve only as an
Introduction to a brief mention of the reg
icide societies which date from the res
,iol1 OF fnd ho