The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-06-17

the Establishments of the new regime,
which was exceedingly anxious to have
the support of his prestige, and
showed that he could not be bribed,
even Ivy brides which few ambitious
soldiers could resist, into embracing a
cause which he detested For months
the strongest possible pressure was
brought to bear on him. He is too
proud to tell how great are the prizes
which We're offered TO him, and the
public knows nothing of the tempta-
tons to which he was exposed He
only saw the new regime marching
toward inevitable civil war, and tramp
ling down, on the way, the rights OF
the great majority of the nation.
In America this attitude is a hard
one to understand, but the mind Of the
loyal Portuguese grasps it readily. 1t
was the only possible point Of view
which Captain Couceiro could enter
tain.
He FRANKLY declared to the provis-
ional government that he was dissatis-
fed with the situation and that he de-
sired to be freed from his duty, as a
soldier, to obey the constituted author
! tiles. He declared his conviction,
founded on many facts, that the re-
public not only meant immediate dan
ger for the independence of the ma
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wishes Of the majority. He asked
that for the actual government there
should be substituted another, an i'm
partial government, which should take
q referendum of the people as to the
| form OF the regime which they pre-
! ferred. Whatever the result of that
plebiscite might prove to be, he under
took to regard it as the supreme ex-
preston of the national will It Is un-
necessary to say that this proposal, a
proposal worthy of the noble spirit
with which it originated, found no
support from the president, who knows
better than any man in Portugal what
would be the result of such a plebis-
cite. On learning of the rejection of
his proposal, Paivo Couceiro declared
that he would stay in Lisbon for
! twenty-four hours, and would then, il
not arrested, take whatever steps
seemed good to him. The twenty-foUr
hours having passed without the gov
eminent deciding to apprehend him,
Couceiro left for Spain, where he at
once began an active propaganda for
the restoration of the monarchy.
His first act, upon crossing the from
tier, was to publish manifesto ex-
: plaining his attitude
! He said that Spain, being convinced
that she would have in the Portuguese
republic an impossible neighbor, was.
in conjunction with England, preparing
to intervene. This being the case, a
monarchial restoration seemed to him
to be the sole means of safeguarding
the national independence. He en-
the country the horrors of a civil war,
by taking a poll of the people on the
question of the regime which the cOun-
try preferred. He approved of the
provisional governments social legis-
lation, but disapproved of all its other
ldictatorial proceedings. He gave in
stances to prove that the republican
regime was only increasing the lack
of discipline and the spirit of anarchy
which is one of the Portuguese peo-
piles greatest defects. He expressed
government which could solve in
few months all the difficulties of the
situation was a resolute military gov
ment of an impartial character.
This manifesto was at once seized
by order of the government, which at
the same time intimated to the few
newspapers still left in the country
that they were not TO- make the faint
est reference to it. Despite this pro-
hibition, the document in question en-
joys a large circulation, as did the
DIShop9 ASSURE al anu inc d raulI Hldhi-
festo, both of which the provisional
government had likewise placed upon
; their index.
Paivo Couceiru is at present in Vigo
} on the northern frontier, where there
are also concentrated hundreds of
: Portuguese eXiles.
The Portuguese government has sew
eral times requested the Spanish
p authorities to break up this nest of
, fugitives, but, so far, its representa-
! tons have not been very well attend
} ed to, and it has every reason to be-
lieve that Spain is in favor of this
, anti-republican movement This be-