Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-16


Own Fellow Members. i inss and 1o' IN.
situations. If an attack should be made
on any carbonario-protected building
hundreds Of personal acquaintance would
meet about them to discover in each other
members of their order, for clerks be-
longing tc different small groups and
knowing only. members of their own
groups as fellow members may work
side by side with members of other small
groups. 4 corps Of volunteers has been
formed under the auspices of the car
bonarios to drill regularly and consti-
tute a part of the militia of the state.
That the government Is willing to furnish
arms and equipment to such corps
shows how we'll the secret society stands
with the ministers
When the general railway stri ze
threatened to paralyze, the trade ano
stagnate the capital of the country the
Carbonarios said that the strikers must
accept the terms offered by their employ
ers as they seemed just enough, although
not satisfactory to the hot-headed men
enjoying the first fruits of the right to
strike" law promulgated by the prOVl-
Sional government.
The suggestion was promptly adopted
without discussion, and both employers
and employees afterward applauded the
clear-headedness and quick decision OF
good work done by the Carbonarios. Ex-
amples of utterly lawless and unwarrant-
able actions charged against them are not
wanting. The BraganZas directed for a
time the destinies of a small and weak
monarchist press in Lisbon. 1t could
never have done the royal house any good
or the cause of democratic government
any harm. But the anarchist element in
the capital objected to it's utterances and
to its continued existence. So one night
the offices of the two rOyaliSt newspapers
were wrecked. Their presses and other
equipment were dumped into the streets.
Notices not unlike those employed by the
Ku Klux Khan in the late sixties. or the
Night Riders in the last few years, were
posted. warning editors not to resume
publication II they had nothing better to
write about than the claims of King Man
uel to a throne that had ceased to exist.
The result was the permanent suspen-
sion of newspaper activities in Lisbon In
behalf of the
Newspapers No Longer house Of
Support Royal Family. h inn.s 1s s., "a
to exist in Bordeaux. but in Lisbon the
press divides between sane republication
and insane anarchy. No other voice is
lifted in type. The government published
that the various secret orders that had
formed to aid the revolution had dis
solved, their work having been fully ac-
complished." But this was pure bun
| combe. Every one in Lisbon knew 1t at
| the time. and the Carbonarios may have
| had the government to publish the an
| nouncement.
| While all observers In Lisbon agree
| that the Carbonarios have done more
good than harm, all who have observed
| the course of similar organizations in
| other countries view the prospects with
| concern. That such an order should en-
dure and remain pure is deemed hardly
| among the possibilities.
| While the Carbonarios are about fifteen
years old in their present manifestation
in Portugal. they are a revival of the
order that disturbed the dreams of mon
archy in Italy nearly q century ago. In
Italy little was accomplished in the way
Of compact organization in comparison
with what was done in Portugal before
the revolution. The republicans realized
that they needed we'll disciplined men.
and with the idea Of intoxicating the prin-
ciple Of blind obedience they formed the
Carbonarios, so that the men should be
in ignorance of the names of their Off,