Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-09
SPAIN THREATENED
BY RE EvOLUT|ON
Leader of Radical Republicans
Says CanaIejas viii Resign
as Head of Ministry

MADRID, Oct. S.-Senor Lerroux,
the leader of the Radical Republicans
some days ago made statements to a
press representative to the following
effect: That the Republicans support
Senor Canalejas in his anti-clerical
policy but that he will achieve little;
that he will arrive at an understand
ing with Rome, but will shortly after
ward resign; that he will be succeed
ed by a Liberal ministry under Gen
Weyler, which, however, will be OF
brief duration, a stop-gap to allow the
Conservatives to form a ministry
headed not by Senior Maura but by q
statesman slightly more liberal, and
that Spain is ready for a revolution
which will break out at the rst fav-
orable occasion.
To the question why Senor Canale-
Jas should resign when a large body
OF Liberal opinion is on his side, Senor
Lerroux answered that although the
large towns of Spain are Liberal, and
indeed Republican, the small towns
and villages are still under the domin-
ion of Conservative "caciques," a fact
which does not apparently prevent the
whole of Spain from being ready fol-
revolution"
The Republicans wish to prove that
no policy of reform is possible under
their favorite axioms-and In order tc
dispel this illusion 1t Is important that
Senior Canalejas should continue In
office and that any agreement with
the Vatican should allow him freedom
of action In the future and not be toe
flatteringly sweet to be substantial. II
has been suggested that the Vatican
will profess it's readiness to accept
Senior Canalejas' project OF law pre-
venting the further establishment OF
religious houses in Spain until the Law
of Associations has been altered, pro-
vided that the Spanish premier will
engage to take no further steps of an
anti-clerical character. But such a
condition would virtually mean that
Senior Canalejas is at liberty to pro-
nose bills and to issue DEGREES SO long
as the bills are not carried nor the
DEGREES fulfilled. and to accept 1t would
lend some color to the contention that
Liberal statesman is Spain can at
present achieve nothing but empty
words.
Little importance Is attached in
Spain to the statement on the lips of
a political opponent that the govern
ment's days are numbered, although
these reports are injurious to the coun-
try. Spain requires not ministries of
three and six months, but stable gov
ernments of as many years If any
real headway is to be made in the
path of reform. Could Senior Canal
Jas government continue for five years
he might be enabled both to unite and
to strengthen the Liberal monarchtcal
party and to carry out some of his
numerous projects of social reform.
Moreover, the time would then be more
favorable for the return Of the Con-
seryatives under Senior Maura, since
II must gradually become apparent
that the feeling against the Conser-
vative ex-premier is largely due to
Ignorance and Misrepresentation.
But If the Republicans appear Will
fully to misJudge the position of the
present government and affect to re-
gard II as a mere interregnum, the
clerical misreading of its character Is
no less striking and far moro serious.