Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-05-27

/ when Catholicism was stricken In France
are beginning TO realize that AN injury
to one is an injury to all" Separation and
| confiscation in France, instead OF increas-
ing opportunities for Protestant sects, has
restricted their operations as well as the
activities of the Catholic church and
swelled the multitude Of unbelievers. Sim
liar conditions are developing in the young
| republic of Portugal The new law for
the separation Of church and state is
shaped to fulfill Senior Costa's boast OF
J mo God and no religion in Portugal" The
| law strikes at all denominations and makes
! the state both master and manager OF re-
| lgious methods and property. All present
! possessions are appropriated by the state,
and all future acquisitions go into pos
session of the state in ninety -nine years
All gifts to churches are to be handled by
parish commissioners, about one-tenth
going to the church, the balance to be dis
bursed as the state directs. Many Catholic
| orders are to be abolished and others re-
duced. Priests and bishops are invited to
marry, the state offering pensions to their
wives and children. In dealing a death
blow to the native Roman Catholic church
1t strikes the English mission churches
with equal force by making services after
shutdown unlawful, expropriating their
piOpSEly anu requiring One-tnlru OF their
revenue to be paid to the state. The French
separation law is a measure of extreme
mildness compared with the destructive
anarchism of Portugars ruling coterie,
whose policies and professions constitute a
libel on repubncanism.
Preaching economy for others to practice
is a perilous policy for politicians seeking
promotion. The lord mayor Of Dublin, the
Hon. John j. Farrell, can give expert Ces-
timony the folly of public economy ap-
piled to the preacher. When a mere alder
man of the city few years ago, he leaped
into the spotlight by advocating a reduc-
ton of the mayors salary from $4,000 to
5000 year. He insisted that the salary
was too large and that the municipality
had no right to squander in this extrava-
CANT fashion the money that ought to 60
to the poor and the needy. His zeal for the
poor and plain people cataputed him into
a seat in Parliament and a year later he
was chosen lord mayor Of Dublin, being
inaugurated March H. last The tories and
Sim Feiners among the aldermen remem-
bered Mr.. Farrells preachments for econ
omy and screamed with Joy. When tories
and Sim Feiners 60 into cahoots in q
political deal trouble in the nationalist
camp Is dead certainty Mr.. Farrell rea-
lized 1t when the combine quoted his
speeches in favor of reducing the mayors
salary. He could not protest against his
own words nor ask his supporters to spare
him the pain of putting into practice what
| ne preached. There was nothing to do but
silently watch the slashing Of the salary
to 5000 per. AS a result Of economy sent
home to roost, Lord Mayor Farrell an
nounces that he cannot afford to occupy
the mansion house. and will strive to live
in his own modest home on the "picayune
salary intended for the other fellow.
Captain Montague Parker, leader of the
syndicate OF excavators recently operating
| in the vicinity Of the Mosque OF Omar,
near Jerusalem, discredits the reports Of
| looting the sacred institution According
to his statement in the London Times the
object of the expedition was to find the
tomb Of David and Solomon and any He
| brew writing that existed Of that period.
Nothing Of value was found. The excava-
| tors cleaned the tunnel OF SLOAN as far as
| the Pool Of Sloan, a distance Of 167O feet
increasing the flow of water 30 per cent
The tunnel was found to be four and one
half feet In diameter and all but foot
| of 1t was filled with mud. The spot where
stood the city of David was definitely To-
.
covered the conclusiveness is drawn that
Jebusite city existed 1000 years before
David captured it. Mr.. Parker asserts
that the work Of exoavating will be re-
stunned in August, This is not likely II
reports from Jerusalem are to be credited.
| A British correspondent at that point
states that the religious fanaticism
aroused by the reports of alleged looting
OF the Omar mosque served the double pur-
pose OF discrediting the present govern
ment of Turkey which permitted the exca-
| walton, and aroused Mohammedanism to a
pitch dangerous to the presence Of Chris
tians. A renewal Of the syndicate's opera
tons would be a signal for an outburst
OF fanatic fury which the government
would not risk.
At the rate the British budget il growing
annually it is predicted that it will reach
the $1,000 900 mark In three years. The
Lloyd George budget for the present year
calls for $685. $4,000, an increase Of $3s, $50 600
over last year. In 1880 the actual expendi-
lures of the United Kingdom was SAL. 00O,-
900. In 1850 1t had risen but slightly, the
total being &4S0.0OO,000 Ten years later the
Boer war carried the total up to $66S, GIG, 600
Since then each succeeding year swelled
the figures, and there is no prospect OF a
check. Social reform, militarism and the
dreadnought fever promises to increase the
load indefinitely, unless the productive
J power OF the country breaks under the
strain. The ministerial program OF social
reform. beginning with old age pensions
and now about to embrace unemployed and
invalid insurance, is costly. The imperial
government aids directly in education and
the grants In that direction must increase
from time to time, as the educational sys-
tenn develops, All the modern reform
projects for town planning, housing, and
the Like, require money, and in Great Brit
ain the imperial government usually shares
in the expense. 1t possesses the main
sources Of revenue; 1t must therefore,
help to pay the bills. II Ireland should get
home rule, the Irish would want generous
financial assistance in beginning their eK-
pertinent. The army, meanwhile Is costing
more and more, while the ever growing
navy can have the Kingdoms last dollar
! whenever the need arises. IL the budget
ten years from now does not show an an
nual expenditure OF $3.50 OOOOOO it will be
because some disaster had struck the