THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1912. THE UNREST IN PORTUGAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10678, 26 July 1912, Page 4

THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1912. THE UNREST IN PORTUGAL.

The cable reports, from Lisbon am. Oporto indicate the continuance of a good deal of • social and political unrest in Portugal. Ineffective 'Royalist I'aids, strikes, bomb outrages by Carbonados, (religious repression, and persecution of .Royalists—all these are but sy-mptomls of that ancient and deep-rooted sickliness of the body politic t<? which 'bear witness two centuries of Piortuguei-Ja hlslorji IVe internal condition of the country, no less than the activities of its politicians, emphasize the fundamental truth that the .character of a people is not to 'bo altered by a change in the local habitation and intime of its Government. To b ; >am-e the Republic for the unrest and discontent which undoubtedly prevail in Portugal, as is already the 'fashion in certain quarters, is unwise and unjust.- No disinterested person oj;rt 'seriously maintain tl/at this lougsjuircirlng people stands to gain anything, in material or moral welfare, by the restoration of that corrupt and reckless artier of affairs which 'brought the Monarchy into disrepute. It may 'be true that many of those who control the affairs of the Republic are no better than the 'Ministers of King Carlos aind King Manuel; and that •some of the politfical "bosses" of Scnhor Affowso Costa's Radical 'following are even more undesirable than the caciques of the old dispensation ; but this is an argument which, though it paints the .need for further reform, entirely condemns the -method of revolution. For the permanent amelioration of 'the state of Portugal, it is necessary that the people at largo, now wearily indifferent to tho proceedings' of all politicians, diouW be taught to take an active and intelligent int'crcfit in their' own government. Tho aggressive and predatory Socialism which is 'identified with the name and predominant influence of

Scalier Ce«ta, wild experiments in legislation, vindictive persecution of Itoyfclists, ruid drastic suppression, of roll igion, have ajll combined to damage, the .Republic in the eyes of many patriotic Furhtguoise, and to give .rise to fears for the continuance of the exiting regime. A certain amount of viohoco, a •certain choree of haste, were things to 'be expected a.s natural consequents of the Revolution, but ia the opinion of .vober men like Scnhor. Anti.nio J<;.<•-e d'Almeida, in the attitude of tl:e Army, and in the utt. ruiec; of the Press, there are hr.pei'ul .'is.::'': of a reaction ;i*z;tiiisL the forward prik-y ;.f the militant Socialist?, and especially aga.'iist their toleration i of la.i»:l(v.'4.!('-<s ;inl violence.