THE REVOLUTION

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14324, 14 October 1910, Page 5

THE REVOLUTION

THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT. JESUITS CAPTURED. Itoss Atoociation-By Telegraph-Copyright LISBON, Oct. 12. Tho President states that tho Provisional Government wiLL administer affairs until an Assembly is elected by universal suffrage. He does not see any reason why women sliould not vote.

THE RELIGIOUS ORDERS. Jesuits were captured in the streets of Lisbon disguised as women while endeavouring to escape. A military cordon is now drawn round the monasteries.

The expulsion of religious orders does net affect the Irish Dominicans.

11-OME, Oct. 12. Tho " Tribune" says that the Italian Government refused to allow tho orders expelled from Portugal to settle in Italy. LONDON, Oct. 12. The Protestant Alliance is petitioning the Government to give force to the Act of 1529 prohibiting Jesuits in Britain. SPOIL FOR BY-STANDERS. BERLIN, Oct, 12. "Taglische Rundschau" says that if Britain values a good understanding with Germany, she will give effect to the Anglo-German agreement of 1898, for the partition of the colonies of decayed Portugal. PORTUGUESE REPUBLICANISM. ANTI-RELIGIOUS AND DIVIDED. Writing in the London "Morning Post" on the Republican Party in Portugal, Mr Henry Byron Bays: — "As I have indicated, Portuguese Republicanism goes very much hand in hand with Freemasonry, and for this reason is not merely anti-clerical but anti-religious 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 aftei the model' of Switzerland, oblivious of the fact that it was the Swiss who made their Republic which gave the Swiss their high qualities. The dreamers who favour this plan express disdain of the French Republic, which thoy 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 tiieir leaders have proclaimed an intent-ion 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 Contemporanco,' Olivoira 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 riyiimo would increase, and that a Portuguese Republic would re-i semble Nicaragua rather than .Switzerland. Tlie Republicans point to {lie economical and honest administration of the Lisbon Town Council, but forget that the tutelage exercised by the Home Oftice has remedied the blunders of their co-religionists, and that it is one tiling to rule a city and an- / other to govern a country.

" A special grievance of the Republicans is the Press Law of .10:10 Franco, yet a perusal of their dailies shows that, in spite of Government prosecutions. they enjoy a license which we should not tolerate hero. 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 immense. Taking the Repnbiican press as a whole, its tone is subversive" of all authority.

"Truth lias compelled me to give an unfavourable picture of Portuguese Republicanism, but I gladly adroit*"that the party includes a large number of honest idealists, and men of high character. and that it possesses two qualities which make for success—faith and energy. Among the ignorant masses —and three-quarters of the Lisbon Republicans may he so described—there is a. belief that the Kenubiie will bring a reversal of the social order. Indeed, the good things in prospect have made the canaille staunchlv Republfcati. The Portuguese 'intellectuals' are mostly 111 the otlier camp."