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Angelo Vas writes in The International, for January 3rd of course bifors the recent tragedy as follows The political affairs of Portugal have lately bean the subject of inbamerable articles in the foreign ross especially in the leading papers,

With the exception of the straightforward and splendid interviews of Louls Morote in the Medrea Herald, all the other articles are fall of wonderful- mystifications and misleading statements. The news in them is blessed in favour of the dictator Jose Franco, who Inspires them and pays for them will our money, Action also, thanks to our illustrious fellow citizen, Dr. Magala Lima, has set before its readers the real aspect of the situation in Portugal, and has brilliantly unmasked the mathods of autocracy in this miniaturo Russia of the West,

treasury, and by a dictatorial act increases the Civil List by 180 coatos (£32,000) per annum,

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of the illegal advances to the Royal House by a distatorial decreo signed by the King: Tast in to ssy sigued by the debtor, who first declared a state of siege in order to eattle Accounts with the nation, his creditor. The Dictator'bagina with a report on the unfortunste poverty of the King, which in a mass of inaccuracies and unabashed disceptions, picturing the Bnancial position of the Royal House as full of diftoaltion.

evident on taking into consideration the large The untruthfulness of this doclaration is outlays made by the King daring the whole partod of this paraded poverty. This is the poriod of travals abroad, splendid resep ions in fish and fetes in honour of forsiga sovereigas thi is the Line when the King is baying the extensize farm of Bacalhos, yachts, little motor-" bosts, two magnidsent properties in Lisbon at. the side of the Necesidades " palace, four automobiles with Inxurions bodies built by a celebrated Parishouse. How happy could & man bo amid such poverty e

Then the Distator fixug the mount of the odranges, They are, says he, 771 contos (2151,200). Where are the proofs There is nothing farther, Juno Frando asser te it, but that dosa not prove it,

Is his word auoiedt? What is his moral

Portugal, at the present moment, is the on- fortunate victim of a plot of calumny All the events which ara taking place in this beautiful and noble country are placed before the public - opinion of the world in a doctored and unre cognisable shape. It has been stated, for in stance, in newspapers, that "Portugal has no parliamentary traditions that it is not sufficient ly educated to exercise its sovereign power through a legislative body and that the Porta. dictatorship to prepara it gently but firmly for authority, after the ignominious bankra play of guose nation therefore certainly requires a the exercise lator, of this sovereign power. his word of honour? He swore on his honour Nothing could be farther from the truth to respect the Constitution, and failed to do so; In the kolemn Act of Acclamation of the he promised to govern always with a Parlis- King in 1649, the representatives of the ment, and closes it without good pretext; he clergy, nobility, and people avowed and assortbound himself to give liberty of the Pross, and ed the supremacy of the nation, and its power to expel the King from the throne if he became unworthy to occupy it. Since then Prayscoortion of civil wars established and strength

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Joso Franco, ambitious without talent, pro-

sake, prosures the insertion in foreign newspapers of the statement that the illiterey of our country is a cutistent ranson for the dictatorship. Does any one want to know who is responsible for this illiteracy : It is the mousroby, which deliberately and system isliy aims at keeping the nation in the blacknat gnorance. There is a familiar saying of a Russian who earns to read and write is an in sargent." In Portugal, the Braganzia think the

mo, and they do not desirs the education the people. In reference to this, it is most in- sresting to read the speeches and reports of Dr. Hernardine Machards, which prove to xos the bad faith of successive monarchist governments on the subject of popular educs tion The sum devoted to this purpose is absolutely trifling,

A few days ago, a dictatorial decree was pub- lished which forbade pupils being entered in the schools for elementary teachers. Every one, of course, understands: There is no adunation0 The people are illiterate, the Dictator declares through the medium of the foreign Press. But one of his dictatorial messures decrease the zumber of future fogehers, "

This action is not without precedent in our, country From 1829, during the absolute goiga of Dom Miguel, two hundred plementary soliools were closed. There is alriking similarity in the two periods,

Jo Franco tries to answer the strictures, which the action referred to has excited, by sying that the number of corticated teachers far excends the number of schools which the

by a dictatorial deorse suspends and can destroy every pawspaper from one day to the next. The right of public meeting does not exist, the people cannot demonstrate, about a hundred persons are la prisou on ao detaite charge, there is Bring in the streets of Lisbon and Operbo-in a word, every form of liberty and all the rights of individaxle are destroyed.

actionaries he is a biget to carry on a strict and He swore to his Maker (liks nearly all re honest administration. Once le power, he begins a policy of unexampled corraptlus and vouality, and endeavours to corrapt clauses and in- dividuals, distributing money through friends and religionists. He himself profits, by dictatorial desrest, since the moment he falls from power, he will proosed to draw, in the position which he holds in a court of justice,

contos (£600) instead of 2 coats (£400) accept the unsubstantiated statements of such which he earned before. Can we, after this,

& man

Now comes the culminating pisca of mookery. The royal yacht Aniella was bought a few years age by the State. It was counted as one of the vessels of our Nary. The King need to travel. in it, but it belonged to the nation. The

Dictator raekoen its valus at 308 contos (£81,200) and the King in order to settle accounts with the State makes it a present of the yacht.

Can anything be imagined more ingenious more excruciatingly funny! The debtor King pays the creditor-nation a sum £6,030 with the yacht Amelis, which is the Property of the State.

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Bat note what follows, The 465 contos (299,001) remaining of the full amount of 771 contos which the Dictator admite to be the King's debt to the country are cleared off in the following way. For some yours the King has been receiving unlawfully an income der ved from some pelsses in which were established the Military Academy, barracks, etc. By law those palasos bolong to the nation, hat the Royal House has the usufruct. The truth has been clearly demonstrated by the distinguished journalist Dr. Brato Comacho. As they are occupied by public departments, the King sa tiken advantage of the moment to lat them to the State, which is the lawful owner of them.

The King surrenders the usufruct of these palaces, and generously solls it to the nation for the sum of £93,000. That is the master-stroke of João Franco,

But not yet all. The faros prossede. Bear. ing ta mind the tragical indigense of the King, the Civil List is increased by 160 contos (£2000) per annum that is to say by mascly £96 day. The Civil List of the whole royal family now amounts to 685 aputos (2137,0 j0). Nur doos the money cease with the Civil List, There are repairs to a dining room in the “Nebessidades” palnes, amounting this year to 40 contos (£2,000). There is the voyage of the Crown Prices Louis Philippe to Africs, cost- bang, more than 205 sontos (£40,000. The Braganza dynasty is a bottomless gulf. It has cost and is still costing as outrageons and incalculable suma

Coverament can build. The average number of sobocla constricted during the past few years already very small, will probably further diminished, in consequblice, says the Diststor, of the financial sirmation,

The expenses of the State, it is true, have been recklessly increased during the dictator ship. The pay of the Army and the salaries of officials were raised, because Jono Franco is endeavouring in this way to prop up the ttering monarchy. But in spite of all his efforia” the nisbility of the House of Bragana is shrestered more and mere every day, and the Army, which has just gained so heroic a victory in the colonies Kein Afries, is more and more eager to clear itself in a proud and decisive manner of the suspicios fast it defends royalty for considerations of

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ashort period ruin, bankraptor For our country Portugal, this historic move- ment meins life or death.

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The question of the illegal advances to the the use, brilliant republican newspaper in Lisbon. In all the history of the Royal Courts of Europe there is no episode, not even that of Marie Antoinette's necklace, which oạn ba compared with this scandal. Illegal-and dis- louest acts succeed one another with bewilders ing shamelessness, proving once more the start. ling truth of the Ismong assertion of the lately deceased w minister Dios Ferreira when he bluntly declared that "the country had boon plundered and was governed by downright gangs of thieves.” Among the parties referred "te, we cannot arelude the present D-ctator, who, it must not be forgotten, iu 1991; and exquocial y in 1894-1896, was distinguished as the leader in the extension of the royal paret. One of the means of extending the royal power, was the un- limited disposal of public money by His Majesty Dom Carlos 1, or rather the mixing up public moneys with the private property of the Royal Heus. The foreign Press, paid by the Dictator, has already given his version of the history of this squandering of public fuade wherein Joà Faunoo is depicted as the man. with the maited fist" capable of ending all

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