The San Francisco call., 1910-11-06


bring out in strong relief the utter un-
trustworthiness of the Associated Press
dispatches when dealing with matters
affecting Catholics.
On October 2, when the king was
presiding at banduet in honor of
President elect Hermes de Fonseca Of
Brazil. two ships of the navy opened
fire on the royal palace. The courtiers.
counselors and mobiles, who were pres
ent at the banquet, We're thrown into
panic They fed and left the king to
shift for himself. He telephoned 10
insurgents at bay. but there was no
response
On October the king was asked to
place himself at the head of a body of
troops who had remained loyal, but
he declined to set one part of the army
against the other. Rather than occasion
bloodshed he slipped away with the
other members of the royal family TO
Gibraltar, where he was received IN
a manner becoming his rank
The sacking of converts began on
Monday, October g. with the usual
scenes of ribaldry. PROCLAMATION and
murder. Among those murdered were
the superior of the French Lazarists
and Father Fragues, confessor of the
queen mother Father Espinouze. also
I,azarist, disguised himself and eff
fected his escape. Later he gave the
following vivid description of events
attending the revolution in Lisbon, say
ing in part:
1T has been reported that the scenes
of fury and anti-clerical hate, and in
particular the attack upon the converts,
were provoked by shots fired at the
mob by the religious: and that. on
entering the converts, firearms in
greater or smaller number were found
1t is an infamous calumny.
1T has been asserted that the at
tack on the religious houses was made
on the spur of the moment and by
separate bands. 1t is not true. There
was a general movement. directed and
planned beforehand by number of
leaders. Throughout the city, and at
about the same hour. squads composed
of soldiers. civilians and women sur
rounded all the converts. In every case
the attack was made in the same way.
I left our residence at about L
o'clock in the afternoon of Monday.
October 3. to find a retreat for our
fathers and clerical students The
rioters began TO gather before 3. They
wished TO prevent the escape of any
a distance and approached slowly. II
was about 6 o'clock when they had
gathered close TO the house and began
soldiers, civilians and women-to
fire at all the windows. while some
wretches We're cutting their way
through the door.
This done, they called for the su-
periors, Fathers Borros- Comes, the To-
cal superior. and Fragues. the visitor.
AS soon as they appeared and before
they had spoken a word both were
shot.
From Wednesday afternoon until
Saturday the assassins were on my
trail. Several times I changed my
hiding place, spending part of the time
in a sewer. But Saturday evening a
cowherd gave me wretched suit of
clothes, put a republican cockade in my
buttonhole and said goodby to me at
the door of his stable, which had
been my last place of concealment.
went boldly through the city to the
railway station; although more than
once 1 thought that I had taken my
last step.
while on the way I saw a crowd of
men and women, the latter wearing
liberty caps and carrying guns, in the
act of driving some religious toward
the republican camp. There they were
held as hosta ges.
When I was buying my ticket I
feared that some one who knew me
might penetrate my disguise, but the
train started off and L felt reassured.
AT the frontier 1 breathed freely for
was in Spain. When the officers of the
custom house asked me about my bag
gage I told them that all had was on
me and I was grateful that 1 had so
much.
What shall never forget is the
bowling of that Lisbon mob as it went
surging through the streets"
The profanity habit is one of the
most degrading, disgusting and sense
less of our national vices. There is an
apt saying that Curses are like chick
ems: they always come home to roOst"
The Holy Name society, founded for
the purpose of promoting proper re-
spect and veneration for that name, at
the mention of which, according to the
great apostle of the Gentiles, every
knee should BEND is doing a work of
national Importance in organizing
monster professions rs a public protest
against popular profanity.
As the crusades were intended to re-
deem Christ's holy sepulchre from Mos
lem -desecration, so the modern cru
sade is being organized to rescue his
holy name from blasphemouS obloquy.
Christians of whatever denomination
can sympathize with the movement
A pretty incident at the parade in
jersey City was the tribute TO the
movement by Rev. David Stewart Ham
ilton, rector of st. Paups Episcopal
church, and 1000 children of his sun
day school lined up on the lawn beside
the church Each child waved a small
American flag as the procession passed,
and 5000 marchers returned the salute
eligion. like water, seems to be ever
seeking its level. Like empire it's
march is steadily westward 1t has
been frequently noted of late, by both
Catholic and non-Catholic writer's. that
the losses of the church in the old world
are being more than made up by her
gains in the new world.
It is certainly a remarkable coinci-
dence that-on the very day. the .'Venti
on which Nathan. the Jew
ish mayor of Rome twas this the
"abomination of desolation standing in