Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-06

tion in the capital of Prof Bombarda,
the Republican deputy and chief of
the Liberal league, by a lieutenant OF
the army.
So intense was the feeling against
the throne that this incident, COM
paratively trivial in itself was suttl-
cient to start the outbreak. Portugal
following the example of Spain, mas
been imbued in recent years with
strong anti-clerical sentiment ana tne
governmental program included a re-
vision of the status of the religious
orders.
President ELECT Fonseca of Brazil
recently arrived in Lisbon ana last
night a grand banquet was to nave
been given him by King Manuel Ac-
cordingly the Brazilian president must
have been a witness to scenes similar
to those in 1889 in Brazil, when the
Portugal empire in that country was
overthrown, causing the imperial ram.
ily to leave Brazil, and PROVISIONAL
government under Fonseca, the father
of the present president-elect, was es-
tablished.
Evidences of the activity of those
who aimed at the throne have been
found frequently of late. ON sep
tember 90 the police raided a bomb
factory and arrested ten persons. TINS
action was said to have followed the
discovery of a widespread anti-mon-
archical plot with ramlhcatlons
throughout the kingdom.
Following the discovery of the bomp
factory there have been arrests almost
daily among medical students VINO
were members of a secret revolution
ary society with branches in the LIS
bon medical school and the University
of Coimbra. The governments ac-
aJ1 11 oil mi IL
Gated the situation. Following the
expulsion of the Jesuits from the mon
astery, Aldea Ponte, any Spanish
priests known as Mariannos who had
settled in various parts of the country
establishing converts and monasterles,
were ordered out Of the kingdom and
their establishments closed by author
ity of the law of 1902, which permitted
the establishment of religious orders
only for charitable and educational
purposes.
The Portuguese unrest which had
gradually increased since the discov-
crv of plots to overthrow the mon
archy had set up a military dictator
ship or a republic was aggravated by
a serious strike among the cork cut
ters and coopers. More than 10000
men stopped work at Barreiro and riot
ing followed. The strikers seized rail-
road trains and threw out of the
freight cars and burned thousands Of
bales of cork. Municipal guards, regi-
ments of infantry and cavalry were
dispatched to Barreiro and a collision
between the strikers and the soldiers
ensued. Fifty strikers were injured.
The grievance of the cork cutters
was the expectation of uncut cork,
which the workmen claimed should be
treated in Portugal, The coopers de-
fIn INN Nn~fq
ton of foreign ready-made barrels
The government realized that the
strikes were taking a revolutionary
turn and to appease the strikers dis
continued the expectation of uncut
cork and placed prohibitive duties up
on foreign barrels imported.
This caused diplomatic protests on
the part of the United States and
Great Britain to which countries un-
cut cork had been exported, and from
France and Germany, whose merchants
had bought enormous quantities of
wine in Portugal which could not be
exported because of lack of barrels.
The Republican movement which fol-
lowed inspiration in the assassination
of King Carlos and the Crown Prince
Luis Phillippi on February /, 1908,
grew in strength steadily and the cleo
tions of last August added materially
IN the Republican membership in the
chamber where the Republican quota
had been trebled during the last three
years.
In districts where the Republicans
failed of carrying the elections. the
vote showed n marked increase. When
the new cortes assembled, the govern
ment saw the danger of the liberal
cabinet being overthrown and on Sep
tember 26 parliament was adjourned
until December 12 in order to keep
absolute power in the hands of the
cabinet and tide over troublesome
period. but more particularly because
the government realized that its ma
jority was too small to withstand an
attack from the coalition forces.