Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1912-06-05
Clerical Party Won Favoring
Use of Public Funds to Sup
port Church Schools
Throughout Kingdom.
PECULIAR PLURAL
VOTING SYSTEM
Socialists and Liberals Want
Method of Suffrage Abolished
by Which Certain Persons
Cast Three Ballots.

| (By Morning journal Special Leased Wire.)
Brussels, June belgium is In a
state of eruption on account of the
! recent elections and rioting through
out the country that has taken on a
revolutionary character. Many per-
| sons have been killed or wounded In
various cities and large number of
reserves have been called to the colors.
Agitation in the industrial centers Is
increasing. Every hour brings news
of fresh protests by the laboring class
es against the government victories.
The conservative elements are
alarmed over the tendencies Of the
civic guard to make common cause
with the rioters. This, however, is
only in isolated instances, Brussels
being a case in point where the guard
today held a sympathetic celebration
before the monument of Francisco
Ferrer, the originator of the modern
school in Spain.
The national disorders generally are
attributed to the disappointment of
the laboring classes over the victory
of the clericals in the recent elections.
The socialists allied themselves with
the liberals on the public school ques-
ton in opposition to the government
policy, hoping thereby to win a ma
jority in the chamber. Their failure
caused wave of anger to sweep over
the country.
Latest reports show that strike
n4o sement hns spread over the entire
Liege basin and has tied up most of
the collieries and the big metal indus
try In the center of Belgium many
industrial proprietors seem to approve
of the strike and sympathize with the
men. The women have aroused them
selves to even greater frenzy than the
men.
In all collieries of the southeast the
Flemish workmen have been boycotted
by the Wallons and hundreds have
left the provinces. The street car
employees have struck at La Louviere
and the municipal employees at Se-
raing.
Liege tonight has the appearance of
a besieged city. The regiments are
under arms besides police, the civic
guard and gendarmes.
Several clashes occurred between
the rioters and troops In Brussels
wrecking street cars, smashing win
iows and doing all manner of dam
age. They broke in the doors of the
church of st. John and st. Nicholas
and demolished the tabernacle.
A column of several thousand strik-
,rs left La Touviere for the nearby
,ollieries this evening to induce the
miners to join in movement. The
strikers were hotly pursued by mount
ID gendarmes.
At Cornu mob wrecked the Cath
,lic Club. At Bruges gcndarmes fired
IN mob, wounding fifty rioters, sew
,ral fatally
The educational fight which Is the
principal cause of the present dis
urbance is explained as follows:
The Belgian schools are either
hurch schools or public schools. The
chools are managed and subsidized
~ the communes alone and in the
ION clerical communes there is a ten
Iency to subsidize only the public
chools. The desire of the clerical
government is to place the church 1
chools on the same financial footing
$ the public schools, the nccessary
unuS Deink ny tiit Noih /
nunes, provinces and state. The OPP
osition urges that the church schools {
e paid for by the church. not by the {
overnmcnt
The liberals who decided that what ,
he industrial masses really craved I
fas universal suffrage, consented TO a
id this measure to the joint liberal s
nd socialist program. This also in
luded abolition of the plural system I
( voting which has long been detest-
d by the laboring elements. Many a
'elgians have two or even three votes.
'atherhood and small money quail ,
Ication entities them to a second vote a
,hile certain educational qualifica- {
ons entities them TO n third. The a
Dcialists assert that this strengthens 1
ne conservative or clerical force at /
he elections at the expense of the $
Masses in the great manufacturing I
enters. IL
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