Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-01-08

not take out a policy on his throne at
a premium much lower than 100 per
cent,
Even in France the prospects of the
present regime are anything but good
The pre- ysfling unrest hasTSpread even
to this republic and he would be bold
man who would predict what the his
tory of France may be in the next half
dozen years. The country is Seething
with discomfort and no one can say
whether the next step VIII be rever-
sion to monarchy or empire or a step
in the direction of extreme socialism.
GRAHAM A SOCIALIST.
One of the best informed men in
Europe on the internal conditions of
the Latin countries is r. b. Cunning
hame Graham, who is also one of the
most picturesque characters In Lon
don. A descendant of the royal
Stuarts and a great territorial magnate
in Scotland he is the associate Of all
the most radical and revolutionary ele-
ments in modern life. He is keen
sympathlzer with the sufferings of the
working class and an out and out
Socialist In fact he has done term
of Imprisonment for leading n riot in
Trafalgar square on the occasion on
which John Burns. now a cabinet min
ister also earned the right to that dis
tinctlon.
Cunninghame Graham spends most
OF his time wandering about the conti-
nent of Europe. EIe knows Madrid as
we'll as LONDON and Lisbon as we'll as
Edinburgh while he is more familiar
probably with the highways and by
ways of the Iberian peninsula than he
is with the countryside of Great
Britain. There Is no man in England
and perhaps no man in Europe who Is
better informed of what the future
holds than this blue blooded revolu-
tionist Six weeks before. the late
King Carlos of Portugal was assassin
ated he wrote from Lisbon to the edi-
tor of a London paper predicting that
something of the kind was going to
happen.
MY dear fellow" the editor replied.
| you have been spending too much
| time in the wine vaults. at Oporto.
| Carlos is the most popular king In
Europe"
Gunnlnghame Graham's prediction
came true, but he assured me that 1t
| was only based. on deductions drawn
from his talks with the common people
and street loafers of Lisbon and not
on any special knowledge. )
EUROPE DISTURBED.
| I called on Cunninghame Graham a
few days ago in his fiat in the west
| end of London where he lives sur
| rounded by art treasures, and asked
! him what was going to happen Il;
| Europe.
Anything may happen" was his re-
| ply. Europe has not been so disturbed
! for so years and there Is every likeli-
hood OF dynastic changes In several
| countries Poor little Manuel's throne
| is the shakiest i'm my opinion for there
| is a conscious, Intelligent. republican
! sentiment in Portugal The people
! know what they want and unlike their
neiehbors the Spaniards they are keen
! business men and are accustomed to
| getting il. 1t is rather pathetic for
| Manuel Is really a very decent little
chap His father was an actively bad
man and his brother was beast. The
y Portuguese are not very strict In their
views on moral questions, but even
! they could not stand the active and
public immortality OF the late king.
TWO RACES IN SPAIN.
"In Spain things are different To
! begin with there are two races. the
Spaniards and the Catalans and they
are as far apart as the English and
the Irish The Catalans are Republi-
cans anG anti -clericals. but the Span
iarGs are simply discontented. They
know that they are oppressed but they
don't know what they want. If the
/ Carlists had q man to lead them they
would have a good chance, but they
don't seem TO have the man.
"'One thing is certain and that is that
| the present king is as unpopular as a
| man can be. He Is weak and frivolous.
| but under IL all he has a strain OF
! cruelty. How could he be a Bourbon