THE NEW REPUBLIC.
ROM "THE TIMES.")
The frat stop has now been taken by the Powers towards the formal recognition of the Portugnoso Republic. After live weeks' uzistonce the Provisional Government has been informed of the willinguses of the Powers to transact busin with
the Ministers of the
Republic The new régime cannet, of course, be doinitely recognized unt the nation has pronounced in its favour at the olestiona bat the fact that is Pawers should have rustle so little diloalty in resuming relations with a ra volutionary Gore is a remarkable tributo to the statesmanship of the Tepublican loaders. The King hus not vot abdicated, if there appeared to ho any choice of a counters revolution we may suppose that those Porgra at least to whom This sudden ranlization of the Republican ideal mst be particularly obuozions would have seized upon the opportunity to show their resentment. Their acquiescendo in the fail accompli esplies confrmation of the Bstortion made by the Revolutionary leaders at the outset, that the country as a whole was tarau of the Monarchy and ariloutly desirous of Republio All the available evidence seeras to point to the same e conclusion. We hare Minis fers' word for it that felegrams of congratula. timm have been retired by them from overy the country, and from most of **
hudies and that no pro Drogistereal. We tast iraq so far beou
that tho loar Church, handed by the Archbishop of Evora, the Patriarch of Lisbon, and other Bishops, who kara carried with them almost all the pariah priests, las adhered to the new regime, and that the Civil Service, the Army, and, neodles to gay, the Navy have 17anaforrel their alleginues en blur. The Republican Press, which has enjoy. ed increasing circulation and popularity for sor time
1
the
try.
some
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7г¤, 1910.
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e past, has now been joined by the reactionary journal O Portuget, whose rulitor, Father Matles, proclaims himself to have been a Republican at heart all his life. AtOporto, the northern capital, and Coimbra, the intellectual centre of the com
Ministers haso received ovations no less eu. thusiastic than those of Lisbon: Esouth foreigu business community, offen unduly resentful political disturbance, has cottled down into an attitude towards the Republic of interested rapectaury. Owing to deficiency of cozununion- tions and to the widespread illiteracy of the rural population, to feeling of the country districts has yet to be ascertained:
but there is no reason to think it different except in degree from that of the urban centres, The Royalist Party, on the other hand, is only conspicuous by ite self-afzcoment. We hear rumours of tyranny and of a severe censorship; bat the partisans of the Monarchy have given to the world during the days of the Revolution anOTICE-TILIS COAL enn only la anmistakable taste of their quality, which will diend meat people to attribute their present gilence rather to the fact that they have nothing to say than to any moonurrs of intimidation. used against the their opponents.
his
be
by
If the triumph has been complete it appears also to have boon wisely and modemtely used.
·We
may question the wisdom of the wholesalo expulsion of roligious orders, and we zouy Franeo and regrot
the persection of
Santior
will surprised or sorry to hear that the anthors of the Credito Predial scandal urs to bo prosecuted, or that a large number of distin- guished persons are to be deprived of the highly- paid sfaccores which they had remulated under the old régime. The changes in the public service appear to have boon confined at prosent to the higher offres, and in the Army to the higher
commands. junior ficors and the
5 DATES BN a political error; bat nou
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TITSUBISHI GOSHI KWAISHA
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junior officials in all angles of the Administrs COAL DEPARTMENT
tion av
have brought all their old zral to the gertica
of their na misters. There appears in fact
to be force and grueral couputition for State BOLE PROPRIETORS of TAKARIMA,
employment; and of all the dificulties with
which Miniators are threatened that
jobs for new adherents without disappouting ald friends is certainly not the least. Burprise been expressed in some quarters, that the Provisional Gororuzout, while denouncing Previona experiments in srbitrary rule, has itself Manmou dietaterial powersby preposing to govern for six months willgut the of Parliament
aid Ministers might no doubt proceed at once to new cleotions, which can they might confidently count, with the aid of the existing electoral law,
form of for
gov. upon a thumping majority ernment of any fragrances they chose to recom zal to the nation. But the law in passed some years ago by the Rotatavist
with
their for the purpose of packing Parlikmout own adherents, has long tank in the nostrils of the Republicans, by whom indeed it has been abugad throughout the length and breadth of the land nator The name igail procaria "the dirty trick." It would become them to tako advantage of l
14. Zow.
OCHI, MUTABE, HOJO, KANADA, NAMAZUTA SAYO, SHINNEW
and KAMIYAMADA, Collieries.
SOLE AGENTS VOL KISHIDAKE Conls.;
HEAD OFFICE-MARUNOUCHI,
ΤΟΚΤΟ.
BRANCH OFFICES-NAGASAKI, MOJI, KALLATSU, WAKAMATSU, KOBE, OSAKA, SHANGHAI, HONGKONG, LANKOW, Cable addresses for above, "IWASAKI”
question, odes, AI, ABC 5th Ed., Western Union.
If Ministera ar postponing the elections for six months-a dangerously long tivo in the life
of
محمد
of Portuguese Governments for the purpose, na they say of decentralizing the dministration and restoring the privilege of a free vote to the electorate, their action affords as
a strong proof their of
gineeri
and of confidence in the justico of their cause. For need it be assumed that the elaborate laws, which issua week weak from the Ministry of Justice are mere spontaneous emonations from the brain of Sonber Affonso Costa. The Divorce Law promulgated a fortnight ago is based uper a earoful
slady of
Contemporary legislation in
by
by
other entries and was long ago uocepted, not only the Republicau Convention, but by the majority of the Chamber of Deputios. It may
that laws affecting be expeted the the Charoh, educatio
finance, лий
other important matters which are to be issued as with the force of law pending the in of Parliament will be drafted with
This novel expedient same osation. legislating on approval may not appeal to constitutional theorists, but it may never- theless have something to recommend it in the present case, when time
and the presses
iss small
the
general stock of political however, as wel
FU
to he nseless Cortain,
hot
the good inte tour of the Ke
publicam Leader, we are still anable to estimato their prospects of eventual necess. They.
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ent their hand to a task of national
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