Show Portugal's Recession Death ath Relieved Carlos ar os of M Many Marked by Strife Troubles Once a a. veritable garden where the tho rich of Europe squandered money and sought health Portugal during recent years ears has been hawked Into tut turmoil moll by political tricksters and seekers ers after power Through their machinations all th thoi tr troubles which c culminated atell In the II assassination of or King KinS an 1 tho the Although Portugal Portugal cro cron crown n co began gal had bad a n Ie kIng In He lie Tas as a's as king In name naruo only Big hearty blurt bluff he fell ten Into traps laid by his by-his his enemies and soon Premier Franco France with the powerful support support support sup sup- port of those who sought self sel aggrandizement aggrandizement practically usurped all power and was a a. veritable dictator whoso rhose behe behest be be- he hest heCt t was vms tantamount to law Perhaps the most ominous sign in recent months that the royal house was endangered came camo on Decem December cr 10 last The Tho political elections were being held then and all aU over Lisbon crowds gathered gath th ered to h hOar hear ar the orators who wa waxed ed hot when mentioning the king They Tey T made madeno no direct threats the they did not even Intimate that the rulers ruler's life was In danger But they did denounce his policies and they did declare that the house of ot peers would be remodelled over the kings king's head These speeches Tanned fanned the flame of oC what was believed by the conservatives to lo bo be groundless r resentment against Carlos A Jew few days later another chapter was added to the long Ions Ion history of or Carloss CAr CAr- CArloss CArlos's CArloss CArlos's loss los's troubles In the opera house at Lisbon two bombs were found round secreted below the royal box Wires attached to an m electric electric elec dee battery were attached to the mui mur- dorous derous spheres tho the battery being far farIn farin In 10 the rear of or the tho stage Carlos CarIes with his family had hall planned to attend the opera December 18 but did not do so after the tho discovery of ot the dynamite Tho rhe chief electrician of the tho playhouse who was noted as ns a violent republican was suspected and as the police were descending upon his rooms to arrest him ho he committed suicide The month previous Franco Tranco the tho dictator dictator dic dic- declared that the po postoffice department department de de- de- de the diplomatic bureaus and service corporations corpora corpora- nearly all of oC the public were with graft raft Men Ien with hl sounding high h titles and no abilIty ability ability abil abil- ity filled posts where diplomacy tact and business ability were requisite They obtained their posts through the corrupt officials of or the heads of or de do- Franco determined to weed the out an and wholesale discharges discharges discharges dis dis- charges followed Immediately there was a and Carlos CarIes had to stand tho the brunt of or the attacks which were made not only on the horde of leeches but by the mobs I of their friends who profited vicariously vicarious vicarious- ly through tho the grafters' grafters operations Internal strife soon rent the monarchy mon mon- archy A As AH In June HID 1907 the Republicans by the Royalist Royalist Roy Roy- cans called revolutionists revolutionist alist party part raised tho the cr cry Down with Carlos Caries and his gang pang of looters looters' With this condition of oC affairs existIng existing exist exist- ing lag physical strife was inevitable The word Riot became a n. hackneyed one In Lisbon and the phrase Some one ought ht to to kill 1111 CurIos Carlos was heard In th thi streets 4 hi iii the cafes in palace and In f tho tIO situation was discussed discussed discussed dis dis- cussed earnestly ominously When hen arm t horo thc tu tug tue of oC Bloodshed often orten followed Feud became numerous and by the thc end of tho year the entire country countr was as a traveler termed it a boiling pot of 01 trouble Republican leaders In parliament after atee af a- a ter tee holding their tongues for a a. time suddenly brol broke forth earth Into the tho most scathing tirades against Carlos They called him a common criminal They branded him as a fat extra larr pleasure loving man who to s satisfy his passions for enjoyment ment went even so far 11 as to pawn his crown The orators denounced him as a 0 thief who had drawn upon the treasury for sums far farIn farIn farin In excess of what he ie could ever ev r pay pa I an and the they worked themselves up to such a fury that after shrieking for tor forthe forthe the populace to rise and demand Carlos's Carloss Carloss Carlos's Carloss Carlos's Car- Car loss los's abdication they were hustled out out of of the parliamentary halls b by troops Again riots began beg an and Europe knew at once that Carlos Caries was doomed His credit was gone men who had been his his' friends when the tho was filled and the tho banquet was set turned from him and schemed for his down downfall tall In d desperation the monarch issued a proclamation that all enemies of his political policy would be tried and treated as 01 traitors He appointed a 1 statesman to act as ma magistrate In these cases cases- The statesman resl resigned ed Then Carlos appealed to fo parliament to advance all him more money The parliament parliament parliament par par- however grown bold because they heard the mutterings of at the tho people people peo peo- pie and knew that secret forces were at work wod to un undermine the throne flatly flat fiat ly Iy refused to Very ery ery well said the king Icing we shall exercise our royal loyal prerogative Uve and will tal take e what our un hipped subjects re refuse ro- ro fuse us He did so and it is probable that that act was the which caused the ex But Carlos arlos was heedless hc of or the the significant statements the uprising uprising uprising up up- rising the miniature revolutions and the tho discontent of ot the men who tilled the soil nn and were taxed to fill fin the rO royal pockets Whilo the who never sleep were plotting Carlos CarIes was enjoying himself in the forests and mountains shooting while wl the crown prince became passionately fond of fencing Lisbon suddenly became quiet with with tho the quietude that broods over overa a landscape Just before a a. storm Tho The rioters ceased cc-ased but In the cafes cates Inthe in inthe inthe the hovels and In tho the dingy y rooms where the plotters met there was a n. abuzz abuzz buzz that soon grew Into a roar Then rhen It was that Carlos Caries came to his senses I I too too late I |