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Show CONFLICT APPEARS TO INCREASE IN BITTERNESS liy Associated Press. MADRID, July 31!. Excllcmcnl In tho capital and throughout Spain is 'Intonso over the conflict with tho Vatican, which caino to a climax yostorday with the do-clslon do-clslon of Premier Canalojas to recall the .Spanish embassador to the Vatican. Both tho government and clerical par-' ties havo accepted tho challenge to battle bat-tle and the situation, complicated by the Intrusion of Don Jaime, the exiled pretender pre-tender to the throne, may, undor existing exist-ing conditions, easily develop as acute features as those of last year. Already the government Is taking precautionary moasures and prohibiting demonstrations from which the disorder might rise, Tho clerical element, which has often before won similar battles in Spain, shows no hesitation in entering upon the conflict and seems to have sot its aim not upon minor concessions and a compromise com-promise acceptable to the holy see. but upon tho downfall of Caualcjus and his cabinet and the cancellation of tho entire en-tire programme of reform. The withdrawal of tho imperial decree permitting non-Catholic organizations to display tho insignia of bouse worship which furnishes thu ostensible causo for thu conlllct and for tho severance of diplomatic relations assumes secondary Importance. Premier CannleJns has fixed his oyos on a modernization of Spain and tho complete com-plete elimination of tho clerical element as a factor In tho government, of tho kingdom and, confident of the support of the cortos, which was elected In May. on thin lK3iie, Is dolormincd to carry through hiu battle for tho revision of thu' concordat con-cordat of 1S51, tho registration and regulation regu-lation of religious orders, govornmontal control of public education and tho recognition recog-nition of absoluto froodom of consclonco. Both SidoB Determined. Demonstrations in Madrid commence, today with one in favor of tho government govern-ment when children from the public schools marched In procession before the statuo of Mcndlzabell, a Spanish leader of tho first half of the last century and author of tho autl-clerlcal laws of 1S3G. On the other hand, a committe6 of Roman Ro-man Catholics from the Blscayan provinces telegraphed to Cardinal Merry Del Val, papal secretary of stale, that thoy wero prepared to sacrifice their property and their lives for their religion. re-ligion. Premier Canalojas in a statement said, diplomatic relations had not yet been severed, though tho Marquis Do OJeda had been recalled from Rome. The embassador em-bassador had been recalled, ho said, simply sim-ply because the government could not accept dictation from the Vatican. The organ of the church, Manara, declares de-clares that the Vatican will be decolvcd If it counts on a Catholic uprising in the liberal press In favor of the vatlcan. It believes, on tho other hand, that the hostilities hos-tilities will rally public opinion on the side of tho government. |