The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-26
TROUBLED REIGN OF CARLOS. Financial Conditions Finally Caused Him to Appolnt France Dfctaf0r.

Hina to Appoint France Dictator.
 With the death of the King and Grown Prince of Portugal, the throne descends to Prince Manuel, duo de Boja the second son of the late King. He was born at Lisbon on November 16, 1889. The Preteudar, to the throne whom the Legitimists declare to be the rightful monarch. Is Miguel, Duke of Braganza, the head of the branch of the house that was expelled from Port ugal in 1884. He Is a man of great wealth and has several sone and daugh- ters. It was rumored a year ago that a plot had been fdrmed to assassinate King Carlos and the Grown Prince in order to place Duke Miguel on the throne.
 Dom Carlos succeeded his father, KinR Louis. in October. 1aS9, and his troubles began shortly afterward, ow- Ing to the low financial status of Port ugal. its heavy debts and the oppres- sive taxes. The government was hon evcomhed with corruption and pecula- ton. The officials in power worked preserving each others sinecures.
 Poor Heritage Left to Carlos. In 1893 an attempt was made on the life Of the KtnG. but 1t was nipped hy the police. The financial crisis came to head in 1898. when there was much talk of forming republic, owing to the corruption of the government. At that time the debt amounted to S1.00O.. | 900 .000, with an annual revenue ot $15O .000. 900. No banks would grant any loans to Portugal. and business was practically at a standEttu.
 Tn 1905. In order to increase the rev. enuea. King Carlos decreed a tobacco monopoly for the government which was the final blow to the prospect of TYN. L. a.A ..uN Ia r~A against the decree and the iniquitous manner in which 1t was administered. :. Not content with imposing the heavy tax on tobacco, they inflicted the poor. est kinds of imitation on the public for which extortiouate prices were eIarG- ed The feeling of discoutent spread to the army and navy. As a Nation the Portugese love tobacco. and although they did not object to paying duties, they did object to paving the highest prices for Havana cigars and receiving limitations.
 Things went from bad to worse, and in May last year King Carlos dissoIv. ed the Parliament without delay, aud appointed Premier Franco. who had been put in power by the LiberaI-Re- generators, as dictator, with special decree that enabled him to rule the country with an iron hand. After the decree was made public. rioting en- sued in the streets of Lisbon. and num- bers of disaffected people were shot down by the troops.
 King Carlos and Franco asserted that they had effected a saving or st0. 900 900 on the year by campaign against graft. Rumors were current that republic was to be declared. but Dictator Franco laughed at the sdea and said that the military and the masses of the people were loyal to the King.
 ReDubIIeuns Keep up RiOting.
 The Republicans declared that King Carlos had done moro to deserve death than Louis XVI. of France. Rioting continued at various points in Portugal all summer. and was kept alive by the newspapers that were ,n favor of re- public. In November last several news papers were suppressed for denounc- ing the Dictator and the King and de- manding a republic. Senhor Lima, the editor of the Lisbon paper Vanguard, wrote that there would either De peaceful revolution if the King abdi- cated quietly, as Nthe late Dom Pedro of Brazil had done, or there would be a bloody revolution
 The suppression of the newspapers was followed by Tots and a mutipy of