PORTUGUESE REVOLT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 243, 13 October 1910, Page 5

PORTUGUESE REVOLT.

ELECTING AN ASSEMBLY.

WOMEN MAT HAVE THE VOTE. ESCAPING JESUITS CAPTURED. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 5.40 ami.) LISBON", October 12. President Braga says that the provisional Government will administer Portugal --until the Assembly is elected by universal suffrage. He sees no reasons why women should not vote. Several Jesuits ln/.'e been captured in Lisbon streets disguised as women endeavouring to escape from the military cordon round the monasteries. The expulsion of the orders does not affect the Irish Dominican monks. EXPELLED JESUITS. NO HARBOUR IN ITALY. (Received 9.45 a.m.) ROME, October 12. The "Tribuna" says that Italy has refused to permit the settlement in Italy of the orders expelled from Portugal. NOT "WANTED IN ENGLAND. (Received 10 a.m.) LONDON, October 12. The Protestant Alliance is petitioning tbe Government to give force to the Act of 1820 prohibiting the landing of Jesuits in Britain. THE KING'S ESCAPE. i RECOGNITION OF THE CHANGE. LISBON, October 12. The Monarchical journals, which ceased publication last week, are reappearing, and several of them acknowledge the Republic. Some of the churches have reopened. The Republicans have dismissed tbe crew of the Government yacht Amelie, which conveyed the Royal family to Gibraltar. The captain, when leaving Ericeira, headed at full steam for sea. fearing that the Republican cruisers would overtake the vessel. He reached Gibraltar by steering two false courses, and thus putting the pursuers off the track. I Brazil has recognised the Portuguese Republic. ' In an article in the ''Morning Post" on "Republicanism in Portugal," Mr. Henry- Byron says: ''Portuguese RepubI licanism goes very much hand in hand with Freemasonry, and for this reason is not merely anti-clerical but antireligious and revolutionary. Next I would note that the Republicans, while outwardly united, especially in their destructive policy, suffer from the same divisions as the Monarchists. Some are bent on a Republic after the model of Switzerland, oblivious of the fact that it was the Swiss who made their Republic what it is, and not the Republic which gave the Swiss their high qualities. The dreamers who favour this plan express disdain of the French Republic, which they name undemocratic; but, considering the blind admiration felt by most Portuguese for everything that comes from France, a Republic in Portugal would certainly be but a parody of the French. Some of their leaders have proclaimed an intention of preserving the Anglo-Portuguese Alliance, but given the ideas of the majority, the Republic would of necessity draw- away from England and lean towards France, to which it would owe support. "In a notable book, 'Portugal Contemporaneo,' Oliveria Martins showed that constitutional government had been an unsuccessful experiment, and the Republicans agree, and say that a Republic is therefore the only way of salvation. On the contrary, it is more probable that the abuses of the present Tegirne would increasa, and that a Portuguese Republic would resemble Nicaragua rather than Switzerland. The Republicans point to the economical and honest administration of the Lisbon Town Council, but forget that the tutelage exercised by the Home Office has remedied the blunders of their co-re-ligionists, and tha t it is one thing to rule a city and another to govern a country. "A special grievance of the Republicans is the Press Law of Joao Franco, yet a perusal of their dailies shows that, in spite of Government prosecutions, they enjoy a license which we should not tolerate here. Incitements to armed revolution and scurrilous language about the King and even the Queen are constantly appearing in the pages of these journals, and the injury they do to the cause of order and true progress is mi- j mense. Taking the Republican Press as a w-hole, its tone is subversive of all authority. | •'Truth has compelled mc to give an unfavourable picture of Portuguese Republicanism, but I gladly admit that the party includes a large number of honest ideajfets, and men of high character, and that it possesses two qualities which make for success —faith and energy. Among the ignorant masses —and threequarters of the Lisbon Republicans may be so described —there is a belief that the Republic will bring a reversal of the social order. Indeed, the good things in prospect have made the canaille staunchly Republican. The Portuguese Intellectuals' are mostly in the other camp."