The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-08
IS H0nOTed By People
PEOPLE FEEL RELIEVED
 THAT CRISIS IS OYER
Hns Every Confidence in the Re- sources of the Country and
 In It's Future

 republic in Portugal Is an accomplished Tact. For city that has just passed through the throes of a bloody revolution and sustained bombardment, Lisbon to- day Is in cloudess sunshine and wears a remarkably smiling aspect.
 The republican flag hutters on nearly every building and from every vehicle; the streets are thronged with prome- naders, including a good sprinkling of tourists with guide books in hand; shops and offices have been reopened and bus mess generally resumed
 The only evidences of the recent trouble are small bodies of troops standing In the principal places of the city. and the passage now and then of Red Cross am- balances.
 The notable outward signs of the new regime are the presence everywhere of the green and red flag of the republic and complete disappearance of King Man uels portrait from public exhibition In fact, not vestige is now seen of the picture post card portraits of the King or any other member of the royal family. These have given way to pictures of members of the new government and photographic records of the revolution in the shape of groups of armed leaders and companies of insurgent troops not in ac- ton. but posing for the camera The damage done to the city by the bom- bardment was surprisingly slight. Stories of BIoodsbed On the journey down to Lisbon from the frontier one heard at each stopping of the train blood curdling recitals of thousands of persons having been killed and whole quarters of the city being devastated or wiped out. The total num- Der of killed has not yet been definitely lac rfofn nn1 hut A1..1.I ceed 300. A couple of hotels near the station bear traces of having been struck by shells and of bullet marks. Ones | attention is drawn to these by groups of persons pointing to them and dis cussing with animation the incidents to which they bear testimony. ] The streets. usre4neyar a asarDusvras n | present. Cheering for the republic, troops horse and afeot. are seen to pass and repass. all carrSi7R the xepub- lican flag which the people >piassed on
 the pavements salute, respectfully doffing | their hats and cheering.
 There is no unusual excitement The recent events which startled the | world are discussed by all classes with l phlegmatic calm.
 l The general feeling evidently is one | of relief Relief that the crisis SO long believed inevitable was surmounted SO speedily with comparatively little vio-
  national life.
 Interesting Personases The most interesting man in Portugal | at the present moment is the new presi- dent, Theophile Braga, who may be said without exaggeration to be the father, not only of this revolution, but of that | in Brazil, having by his standing as pro- | lessor of history and philosophy prepared the ground for both movements. His un- assuming manners may be inferred from l the fact that last night after having been elected first president of Portugal | he returned usual in second-class compartment of the train to his unpreten- l tious little home in the suburbs, quietly l receiving the congratulations of the rich | est and the humblest of his friends and | deprecating the frantic oyations of his | fellow passengers.
 | Braga has not many spare moments, | but he was kind enough today to receive the correspondent of the Associated | Press. He particularly desires to be un- | derstood that the revolution had no mili- | tary or personal aim but like those in | Brazil and Turkey, was purely the out come of philosophical ideas. The Brag- anza dynasty had failed to keep abreast l of modern progress, he said and had | done nothing to render the people mas | ters of their own destinies This revolu | tion was aimed to complete the realixf | ton of civil life. untrammelled by preM dces or clerical domination One of the means by which the lav | dynasty had endeavored to maintain fy | position, he said, was continually to men | ace the people with British intervention | to crush popular sentiment as if an an- | cient alliance between the two nations was one between dynasties and not peo- | ples.
 Confidence in Resources Senhor Braga announced that he had every confidence in the national resources and was convinced that an honest admin istration would suffice without adventi- | tious means to put the finances of the country on satisfactory footing and achieve the moral and physical improve ment the nation so much needed. A striking proof of the readiness of the whole country to adopt a new form of | government, he said, was the fact that the provinces calmly awaiting the pulp | hcation of the manifesto and constitu- | tion of the government and then rally to | the republic.
 Senhor Braga concluded by eulogizing | his colleagues. all of whom, he said. had | his utmost confidence.
 The government is about to order re- | vision of the voting lists preliminary to holding elections for constituent cham
 Der. The provisional government will not remain in office beyond three months
 
 programme are:
 | First, the development of public in- struction and national defenses on land and sea; second. administration decen- tralization; third, colonial autonomy; | fourth, to guarantee fundamental liber- ties by judicial power; fifth, expulsion of | monks and nuns sixth. obligatory civil | registration; seventh, lay instruction: | eighth, separation of church and state;
 ninth. the strengthening of the credit
 and finances of the country. New Government vfEfIant On account of reports that some of | the troops in the provinces have not| vet declared their adherence to the rel public the provisional government Isl exercising the greatest vigilance. TNr
 ty-nine heavy guns and 10 Maxfms hdHT | been posted in trenches on the heigR\
 of the city and are ready to chec( any attempted invasion of Lisbon. UfH to the present however. the govern- ment has received no advice of rising1I in favor of the monarchy.
 The encamped forces Pf the provis-| SC0NTIxUED ON PAGn s.A