New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-08-07
ErAftacbe Gix,ese Real Reason and Also
TIE One Circulated By Foes
Of the Premier.
of fbe Premier

= has been permitted by his ministers and
by the principal political leaders re-
manning loyal to the dynasty to leave
( the kingdom at a moment when it is in
. the very throes O. the gravest crisis
which it has heen called upon to face
sine the restoration of the monarchy,
! thirty-siX years ago.
! Under no other circumstances would
! they have approved of his departure for
! Great Britain,-of all places for the foes
| of the government in its present war
/ against the Church insist that Prime
Minister Canalejas has been encouraged
! TO inaugurate hostilities against the
Papacy, the clergy and against the re-
/ ligious orders by the support which he
received from young Queen Victoria and
/ by her alleged Protestant mother,
! Princess Henry of Battenberg. Indeed,
/ the people are taught to believe that
Queen Victorias conversion to Roman
Catholicism just previous to her mar
! riage was insincere; that she has re-
NAMED at heart Protestant, and that
! she has behind her not only the entire
English royal family to which she be-
longs but all Protestant Great Britain,
in influencing her husband to indorse
Premier Canalejas in his conflict with
the Roman Catholic Church.
1t is notorious that Queen Marie
Christine and the other members of the
reigning family Of Spain are opposed to
the policy of the administration in this
sense. that they believe that by the use
,,Ia
ton concessions from the Papacy could
have been obtained and the break with
the Vatican averted. The interpreter
ton, therefore. placed by the opponents
of the government on the departure
of Don Alfonso in this hour of danger is
that it is designed to remove him from
the pro-Catholic influence Of his mother
and his other Spanish relatives, to rem
der him still more submissive to the
views of his wife and of her English
knsfolk, and to seek courage and OBJ
stinacy in Protestant Great Britain for
the war of his ministers upon Roman
Catholicism.
Prime Minister Canalejas and all those
who are supporters Of his policy as we'll
as all the most devoted friends and kins
folk of the King, are thoroughly aware
of the construction that has been placed
upon his quitting the country just now,
and approaching the harm which is
bound TO ensue therefronl. to the admin
istration and above all, to the dynasty,
would never have sanctioned it had it
not been for the critical condition Of the
health of the young monarch.
That Alfonsos death would precipi-
tate a revolution is universally conceded.
Il would result in a Republican and So
cialist uprising in every city and town,
especially in Madrid. which is represent
ed in the Cortes exclusively by Republi
cans There would be no question of
regency. The Spaniards, no matter OF
what shade of political opinion, would
not tolerate for one moment Queen Vic
toria in that position. For she has failed
to render herself popular, at court, in
society, or among the masses, and the
people have gradually become accus
/ toned to blame her for everything done
| by the King which does not meet with
| their views.
Brought up under the immediate eye
of her grandmother. the late Queen Vic