The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-01
CARBONATE
IS POWERFUL
Secret Society of Portugal RESPONSE
Bile for Recent Revolution,
Threatens Old Regime
sympathizers.
HAVE ISSUED WARNINGS
Society Makes Threats Which Result
In Many People Making Sud-
den Flights From tho
Country.

BADAJOZ, March The recent
sudden fight from Portugal of large
numbers OF sympathizers with the old
regime is beginning to be explained.
The monarchists are leaving the coun-
try under threat of assassination by
the Carbonario-the secret society
which was directly responsible for
engineering the revolutions.
The heads Of the present govern
ment are not members of the organ
ization. The Carbonate consists
mainly of the bourgeois" class and
OF soldiers and sailors. either of the
ranks or the bearers of the 'ower
grade of commissions. After the rev.
olution has been put through the
secret society recognized the neces-
sity OF giving the high governmental
offices to men of higher standing than
any of them possessed.
Men like President Bragg. Foreign
Minister Machado, Minister of Public
Works Gomez and Minister of the
Interior Almeida were accordingly
placed in charge. The chief difficulty
that these men have had to encounter
has been that they are entirely de-
pendent upon the good will OF the
Carbonario to retain office. And the
society being exceedingly radical and
irresponsible in its composition the
greatest trouble has been experienced
by the ministry in maintaining order
and establishing civilized govern
sment without antagonizing their sup
porters.
Visits to any of the ministries have
clearly shown the remarkable char
acter of the situation, the ministerial
ante-chambers swarming with leading
members of the secret society-most
OF them uneducated and often unin.
telligent men-whose advice and crit
icisms the ministers have not dared
to disregard and to whom they have
been forced to We audience to the
exclusion Of callers with legitimate
business to tr .nsact, even including
the diplomatic representatives of for
eign powers with which 1t is of the
utmost Importance to Portugal to
maintain good relations.
One respect in which the provisional
government has given especial UNI
bragg to the Carbonate has been in
its retention in office-for the sake of
their experience-of number Of min
or officials of the days OF the mon
archy and in refusing to exile former
monarchists who have, since the rev.
olution, refrained from interfering in
politics and seemed disposed quietly
to accept the new regime.
Finding the administration deaf to
It's demands along these lines the
Carbonate finally took matters into
its own hands and served notice on
the Objectionable individuals that
they must leave the country or they
would be killed. Most of them accept
ed the former alternative. Among
those who remained series of as
sassinations may be expected at any
time. The government is not strong
enough to oppose more than a pas
siye resistance to the society, so
there is no prospect that such assas-
sinations will be punished and 1t Ia
likely that the administration win be
driven to general conflscation of
the fugitives' property very soon The
places of the officials who have been
forced to flee are being filled with
members of the Carbonate, wholly in
experienced in their work, and in
extricable confusion is certain to re-
suit in all departments.