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Show The Duke of Sai.danha. The two oldest statesmen in Europe are Jvnar tero. of .""priin, and Saldanhn, of Por-tusal Por-tusal The former is seventy-five years olol, the latter has passed ninety. Both have revolutionized the government of their countries at an age when ordinary ordi-nary people usually long tor order and rest. For this rea-on, both revolutions revolu-tions will be limited to the ruling ', classes, and will exert very little influ- j ence upon the weifire of the two conn tries in general. In both countries the military make the revolutions. They succeed because they represent the national na-tional strength, but the benefits of their success never reach the people,remain-ing people,remain-ing always with some of the successful leaders. It is plain already that there is no progress connected with Salda-nha's Salda-nha's success. He marched his soldieis through the streets of Lisbon, and made them sing national airs, and, after having forced the Duke of Ixsule to resign, he made himself premier. It was for a moment believed, and the Portugese cortes seemed to fear it,that Saldanha intended to unite Portugal with Spain. Saldanha denied the accusation ac-cusation emphatically. The only comprehensible com-prehensible cause for this palace revolution revo-lution is thereby repudiated, and the indifference of the people throughout Portugal seems to indicate that they do not understand much more of the aim of that revolution than we do here. |