The Washington herald., 1911-03-05
Italy to Celebrate Jubilee
as a Nation.
PEACE REIGNS IN PORTUGAL
Republican Government Acting with
Wisdom in Allowing Freedom Of
Crecds-The Threatened Religious
Storm in Germany Blows Over.
/ "Jubilee Opera, for Russia
By FREDERICK WERNER.

Special Cable to The Washington Herald.
Berlin. March 1.-Europe is still enjoy
ing all the blessings Of a clear diplO-
rnatic sky. Peace is reigning everywhere
between the powers. The lamb is slum-
bering peacefully next TO the lion and
the outlook for the future has never
been brighter. Even from Greece no dis
turbing news is coming, and what We
hear about the rising of the Arabs in
Yemen against Turkey is evidently
viviGly Col0red by newS-thirSty corre-
spondents
Italy is preparing to celebrate her jubi-
lee as a nation, and to receive as Ter
guests most of the crowned heads OF.
Europe during the summer. in spite o;
the -Ctests Of the Vatican, which are.
however, daily growing weaker. and tho
Pope may even decide to close his eyes
to the visits of Emperor Francis Joseph
and Austria and Kaiser Wilhelm. whose
presence in Rome as representatives Of
countries most closely politically allied
with Italy, is particularly wished for
In Portugal. eN ents are evolving more
peacefully than for many weeks and il
appears that the young republic has
safely passed the danger point, and the
people are beginning 10 realize that the,
government must have time to carry
itself to.
Freedom of Worship
Most important of these is undoubtedly
the separation of church and state, and
here the republican government is acting
with praiseworthy wisdom. The minister
OF foreign affairs. who has drafted the
government bill, has assured the people
that all creeds will be allowed absolute
freedom, and will be permitted to main
tain special schools in which religion will
be taught subject to very lenient re-
strictions by the authorities. The minis
ters promise to give back to the proper
owners all property belonging to foreign
corporations confiscated at the time OF
the revolution or pay full indemnity.
The state council is still considering
the election laws. which are to contain
the following main principles The full
right Of suffrage is TO be granted to every
adult person able to read and write and
among the iIliterate, to all heads of fam
lilies. and all persons able to prove that
they make their own living. so that the
right of suffrage will practically be uni
versaL
Russian Students Make Demands.
The ferment in the high schools
throughout the Russian empire is wax
ing intense. The students make two de-
mands, first, the return of their COM
, rades. of which some are imprisoned.
others expelled, and others rusticated for
having taken an active part in dis
turbanceS; secondly, the annulment Of
the decree forbidding meetings within
university precincts. The rector. vice
rector. and joint rector of Moscow Uni
Versity have rendered their designations.
The university council has requested the
government to close the establishment
until the autumn.
Some of the professors at Moscow were
obliged yesterday to deliver their lectures
under the protection of the police; others
Il fused to do so, and left the university.
and a few read the lectures under the
protection of the doorkeepers. In many
cases the students stopped the lectures
altogether. and dispersed professors and
listeners by filling the apartments with
sitting fumes. The strikers sometimes
entered the back door of the lecture hall.
In other cases they smashed the front
doors
The students at the Women's Univer-
sity. having decided to strike, were
warned by the rector and professors that
persistence in their resolution would en-
tail the closure Of the establishment for
three or four years. The professors be
sought them to reverse their decision. and
for this purpose organized referendum,
which resulted. at late hour last night,
in an enormous majority for a strike.
Presumably the Women's University will
now disappear for A considerable time.
This agitation is disapproved by the
Conservatives as mutinous, and by Lib
erals as inopportune.
German Storm Blows Over.
The storm that threatened to trouble
the relations between Professionalism
and Catholicism in Germany regarding
the modernist oath imposed by the Pope
has blown over 1t was chiefly due to
political intrigue in this country. though
in part also to the POpe's devotion to
tradition. The great aim of politicians
who are "agin the government is to
break down the Conservative Centrist
majority. which at present enables gov
ernment to be carried on. and conse-
quently. any pretext is good enough for
an attempt to ALLEVIATE the Centrists.
The modernist oath was an excellent
one. for II seriously infringed on the
imperial secular authority, and the speech
of the PruSsian minister to the Vatican,
as reported, seemed to supply thei poll
ticians with splendid fuel for the flame.
The report, il now turns out, was not
an exact one-the official exp anation is
that it referred to the past, not TO the
present or futUre-and the papal organs
have explained away the Popc's leS(er TO
German professors would be towards it
they did not take the oath. For the mo-
ment, therefore, religious Germany is at
peace again.
Jubilee Opera in Russia.
German musicians are much interested
in the announcement from st. Petersburg
that the Car has commissioned the COM
poser, Ipolitoff-Ivanof and the poet
dramatist, Kologrigowa, both OF Moscow,
to create a Jubilee opera" in commemor-
alton of the three hundredth anniversary
of the foundation of the Romanoff dy-
nasty. The work is to be an allegorical
apotheosis of the Russian reigning house.
based upon actual events in the lives and
times of its representatives. The opera
will be staged with the lavishness for
which the ST Petersburg Imperial Opera
House is famed, and will be presented
on the first day of the jubilee ceremonies.
Other Russian cities, notably, Moscow,
Warsaw, Riga, and Odessa will be per-
mitted to produce the work Immediately
after the premiere at st. Petersburg.
Many wooing Countess.
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