The San Francisco call., 1910-10-06
DEPUTY'S DEATH
DHURRIEDREVOLT
Feeling Intensified Against
Monarchy By Assassination
In the Capital

PARIS, Oct. Though a revolution,
peaceful or accomplished with violence,
was not unexpected in Portugal, it is
generally believed that the immediate
cause was the assassination in the
capital Of Professor Bombards, the re-
publican deputy and chief of the Lib
eral league, by a lieutenant of the
army.
So intense was the feeling against
the throne that this incident compare
lively trivial in itself, was sufficient to
start the outbreak.
Portugal, following the example of
Spain, has been imbued in recent years
with a strong anti-clerical sentiment
and the government program included
revision of the statutes of the reli-
gious orders.
President t-elect Fonseca of Brazil
recently arrived in Lisbon and last
night a grand banquet was to have
been given him by King Manuel. Ac-
cordingly the Brazilian president must
have been a witness to scenes similar
to those of 1889 in Brazil, when the
Portuguese empire in that country was
overthrown and the imperial family
was compelled : to leave Brazil, and a
provisional government under Fonseca,
the father of the present president
elect, was established.
Evidences of the activity of those
who aimed at the throne have been
found frequently of late. The police
raided a bomb factory and arrested 10
persons September 20. This action was
said to have followed the discovery of
widespread anti -monarchial plot with
ramifications throughout the kingdom
ARRESTS EVERY DAY
Ell Imparcial, an official organ, at
that time declared that the govern
ment was prepared to crush the revolt
without mercy. Since the discovery of
the bomb factory there have been
almost daily arrests among medical
students who were members of secret
revolutionary society with branches in
the Lisbon medical school and the Uni
versity of Coimbra.
The governments action against the
clericals also complicated the situation.
After the expulsion of the Jesuits from
the Monastery Aldea Ponte, any Span
ish priests known as "Mariannos,' who
had settled in various parts of the
country establishing converts and mon :
dom and their establishments closed
by authority of the law of 1902, which
permitted the establishment of reli-
gious orders only for charitable. and
educational purposes
The Portuguese unrest, which had
gradually increfed since the discov-
cry of plots to overthrow the monarchy
and set up a military dictatorship or a
republic, was aggravated by a serious
! strike among the cork cutters and
coopers. More than 10000 men stopped
work a Barreiro. and rioting followed
The strikers seized railroad trains and
| threw out of the freight cars and
| burned thousands of bales of cork
Municipal guards regiments of in
| fantry and cavalry were dispatched tc
Barreiro and a collision between the
strikers and the soldiers ensued. Fifty
strikers were injured.
CORK CUTTERS STRIKE
The grievance of the cork cutters
was the expectation of uncut cork
which the workmen said should be
| treated in Portugal. The coopers de.
manded a cessation of the importation
| of foreign ready made barrels The
government realized that the strikers
were taking a revolutionary turn ant
to appease them discontinued the ex-
portation of uncut cork and placed pro
hibitive duties upon foreign barrels.
This caused diplomatic protests OF
/ the part of the United States and Grea1