The San Francisco call., 1910-10-06

Britain, to which countries uncut cork
had been exported, and from france
and Germany. whose merchants mao
bought enormous quantities of wine In
Portugal, which could not be exported
because of lack of barrels.
The republican. movement which
found inspiration In the assassination
of King Carlos and Crown Prince
Luis Philippe. February /. 1908, grew
In strength steadily and the elections
of last August added materially to the
republican membership in the chamber,
where the republicans quota had been
trebled during the last three years In
districts where the republicans failed
of carrying the elections the vote
showed a marked increase.
When the new cortes assembled the
government saw the danger of the I'D
eral cabinet being overthrown and
September 26 parliament was adjourned
until December IL in order to keep
absolute power in the hands of the cab
met and tide over & troublesome Pc
riod, but more particularly because the
government realized that it's majority
was too small to withstand an attack
from the coalition forces.
SHOUT FOR REPUBLIC
President elect Fonseca of Brazil
received great ovation when he ar
rived at Lisbon. A regiment of In
fantry escorted him to Belem palace,
from the balcony of which he addressed
a large crowd, felicitating the Portu-
guese people as the source from which
sprung my fatherland and the Brazilian
nation The crowd cried Long 1--we
the republic of Brazil."
Last Sunday King Manuel officially
visited President elect Fonseca on the
Brazilian battleship Sac Paulo. Ac-
cording to advices received at the
Brazilian legation here today, King
Manuel has now taken refuge on this
Brazilian warship.
The whole liberal press, including the
republican element, applaud the gov
erment's action in expelling the friar
and confiscating the converts and mon
asteries and other valuable properties.
DR.. Jose de Alpoim, the leader of the
progr ressives and former minister of
justice and worship. who told the king
that If he forced reforms, both politi-
cal and financial, on the same lines as
had Premier Canaleias of Spain, the
monarchy was doomed and a republic
| assured, declares that his majesty an
swered that he would do his best to
rule the country in a liberal spirit.
DIR. Alpoim added:
The king is wise and of humane
disposition, but Is badly advised by the
| clerical clique at the palace"
The government has been aware that
| large stores of arms, ammunition and
| bombs were kept in Lisbon and the
! other chief towns of the country, but
| all efforts to discover the hiding places
were fruitless.
ARMY OF REVOLUTION
The greater part of the army and
navy was avowed republican, and many
| liberals had declared that IL military
| cabinet was formed they would join
the ranks of the republicans.
! notwithstanding the liberal govern
ments promises of reforms and the re-
cent decree of amnesty toward the
| press offenders, as well as the efforts
| TO settle the clerical problems, the re-
publicans alleged that the progressive
| cabinet was really reactionary and
allied with the court party, which in
turn. it was insisted. was dominated
| by clerical influences.
| The kings creation of additional
| peers was regarded as reactionary
| move. Alfonzo Costa, the republican
| deputy, who with Bernardino Maehado,
!, the republican leader, was paving the
way for a revolution, recently de-
clared:
1--WE will kill the least number OF
! persons possible, but at the psychologist
! cal moment republic quickly and ef-
! fectively will be proclaimed Six re-
publican soldiers will guard the king
| against violence and all the ministers
| will be imprisoned"