Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1913-04-11
INTERNAL STRIFE
BESETS PORTUGAL
Different Factions Rive the
Nation.
MANY ATROCITIES ENACTED


Youths Sentenced Unjustly to Years
of Penal Servitude - Government
Powerless Against It's Enemies.
Not since the declaration of the re-
public have affairs in Portugal been
in such a desperate condition as they
are at present. politically, financially
aud socially. says correspondent IN
Lisbon There is virtually no political
leader in power who has the future
good of the country at heart All seem
bent on advancing their positions or
Glling their pockets in the shortest
possible time. believing that the pres
ent state of affairs cannot continue and
that they must make hay while the
sun shines for them These are the
general principles on which those in
power are united. They differ as 10
the quickest and most effective way
of carrying these principles out
The most dangerous thorn in the side
of the nation are the carbonarios.
whose leader is Senior Luz Almeida.
4 man who stops at nothing to show
his luminosity against the royalist fam
illes. although there is no danger 10 be
expected from them. II is TO the lniiil-
ence of the Carbonarios that the pris.
oners taken at various times since the
revolution of two and half years age
are slowly brought TO trial and are in
the meantime kept IN filthy cells in tie
criminal prisons
such yas the case of daughter of
the Count nf Cascaes. n member of the
ancient family of Cana. the tale of
whose sufferings has recently been
published In the European and Amerl.
can press. Her only crime was that
in distributing the funds and food she
received by popular subscription she
ignored criminals and gave only to pc
litieal prisoners This IN the opinion
Of the Cnrbonarios constituted man
ifestntion of political solidarity"
Government Helpless.
How helpless the government Is be-
fore the Carboharios is shown by the
fate of the general amnesty bill intro
duced few weeks ago. which had TO
be Withdrawn because the agents
proyocateurs" of this party through
their press and even by public posters
declared with eircumstantiar evidence
+ that royalist rebellion was Mt hand,
Z Some arrests were uiatie. but the pris-
ouers turned ont TO be some peasants
4 who had started an agita ton to have
/ their churches Kept open In defiance of
I the governments order Senior Inz-
/ Almeida openly acknowledged the rinse
/ to which his agents had resorted aud
said that he intended it rs warning,
/ prompted by the wave OF false gen
crosby which had invaded the spirit OF
sincere republicans"
/ few months ago, when the antag-
onism against the royalists seemed to
have died out, an attempt was made to
hasten their trials. with the result
that the iuries. through lack of evil
dence began to aeqult about three out
of five. Thereupon Il panic seized the
! Carbonarios. They organized mobs at
! 0porto and Lisbon. who attacked the
/ juries in the streets, the lawyers for
the defense and the prisoners as they
4 left the court Since then military tri-
bunals have tried the cases. and there
have been very few aeqnittals indeed
A Terrible Penalty
/ There were five young royallsts who
4 had been acquitted by civil court re-
| arrested on charges identical 10 those
formerly brought against them. All
We're found guilty by Il military tri-
/ bunal and sentenced to six years CON
] finement in the penitenciaria. or Grim
/ inal prison. TO be followed 10y deporta-
! ton for ten years TO penal settle
/ ment in Africa. In other words, these
innocent youths were dressed in mo-
nastic garb. had their heads shaved.
were placed In solitary cells and oblig-
4 ed to wear thick hood over head and
/ face. with Sits for eyes and mouth.
! This Carbonarios society. which since
1 the revolution has become a menacing
( political pnrty but without any POI
litical propaganda whatever rs the in
! stigator and creator of the revolution
I has had no excuse for existence since
4 the declaration of the republic, but the
/ offices it naturally took under the pro-
I visional government its members have
/ been loath to surrender. 1t has there
I fore felt the necessity to Justify its po-
| sition by organizing throughout the
country a system Of spying and dis
! quiet Where there were no conspira-
( cicies. conspiracies We're invented, the
/ possession OF title or wealth-espe-
4 cially the latter-or the fact Of having
! rendered service to the state or church
under the monarchy being sufficient
| to cause arrest. followed by atrocities
/ only equaled by the reign of terror.
/ Eastern Convocation.
I The Eastern Convocation OF the Di-