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President Ripley of the Santa Fe Fears Nation Is in GraveDanger Owing to Attitude Toward Railroads

By JAMES B MORROWThe Washington Herald

July 2 Incidental to the bus-iness of hauling merchandise and sell-

ing for skilled managersan4 expert financiers the railroads havedeveloped their own diplomatists strat-egists and fighting men

Also they have their own oratorslikely enough they were brakemen teleg-raphers or clerks years theirown poets only their poets do not writebooks or put their visions into rhyme

Railroad lawyers as a rule are merelyengineers seeking a right of way throughstatutes made and provided by otherlawyers In legislatures sometimes un-necessarily assembled They tunnel andbridge according to the topographical ec-

centricities of tho situation and ordi-narily are dry and technical persons

The railroad diplomatist strategist orwarrior needs to be more than a lawyer-or an engineer Broadly he must be aphilosopher SpecltlcallY he must under-stand the temper of the people and theinherent principles of human nature

Few BlundersGod said George F Baer in effect

gave the coal mines to the coal baronsBaer is a lawyer Brown of the NewYork Central a section hand In hisyouth will never fall into such a blunderof thought or statement nor willYoakura the former driver of a scrapernor will Marvin Hughltt tho oldtimetelegraph operator nor will James J11111 once a roustabout on the docks ofSt Paul nor will Edward Payson Ripley president of the Atchison Topekaand Santa Fe system who years agowas a shipping clerk for a firm of whole-salers in Boston

Realizing the gravity of the action re-cently taken by President Taft in thematter of rates the railroads of Chi-cago twenty and more in number cametcgether in a l aguo of defense and

some of their wisest men to rep-resent their cause In Washington TheInstinct and judgment of the conferencemade Mr Rlpley chief of the ambassa-dors An attorney might have split hairsand In the exhilaration of legal contro-versy muddled the case before the Pres-ident So Ripley a freight monger andan executive placid sagacious terseforceful and profoundly informed abouthis own business spoke for the railroadsthat gridiron tho great map of thoWest front Chicago to the shores of thoPacific

Like im Armored KnightMoreover Rlpler is physically

As I talk to him now in his ofnee many stories up with Lake Mlch-Jgan moving and glowing in the sunlightunder the windows I see a large manstructurally and Intellectually massiveman in head and features tall broadangular flat at the abdomen aa an ath-lete huge of chin nose and mouthand gray of eyes symmetrical and leon-ine such a man In short as one wouldpicture on a tremendous black horsearmorclad and carrying a heavy swordand a long lance a terror to his foesand a ure bulwark to his friends Inotice that his clothing Is not new thathe occasionally lifts his shoulders andspreads his hands like a Frenchman or

Jew ind that he Is short of visionbut that he does not use spectacles

The old man he is called In affectionup and down the 10000 miles of maintrack that constitutes the Santa Fasystem A mighty getter of freight tire-less and taciturn but violating ana contradicting the stern aspect of his appearance kindly thoughtful and just Hehas training schools reading rooms anda beautiful free magazine for his menThose who know him say he would havemade great judge Formerly he wasan officer on the C B Q The trafficmanager of that road had an obstinatedispute not long ago with the trafficmanager of the Santa

arbitrate the case said the SantaFe rather eagerly

All right replied tho C B Q1 am willing to leave It to Mr RIpley

your own presidentGo to thunder Santa Fe hastened to

say as he turned and walked away Isought no verification of the story fromMr Ripley but I It is true

Gloomy Regarding FutureWhile he talked with the measure of

habitual selfcontrol It was plain thatthis man who employs 60000 wageearnersand governs the business of a railroadthat covers the country from Chicago-to San Francisco and from Denver toGalveston was gloomy concerning thefuture and almost reconciled to what heterms the Ingratitude of the public Ihad asked him about the problems oftransportation not as seen by agitatorsand politicians but by the men who areon the inside of the railroads themselves

There are several very serious problems Mr Ripley said rather slowly

First are we to be permitted to liveMy experience goes back to the days ofrough and crude conditions Everybodywanted railroads then Everybody whohasnt them wants railroads now Mencome here from sparselysettled and Iso-lated regions begging for branch linesand conneotlons pledging to help and insome instances promising to pay onefourth of the cost They are willing tomortgage all they have that their landsmay be doubled or quadrupled In valueand their crops sent to market and soldat good prices for ready money Theyfeel as all the people felt when railroadbuilding was started in this country

Beginning of Greet LineWork on what is now known as the

Fe system began at the thenfrontier village of Topeka in 186S Counties through which the road was to belaid voted bonds for Its building Whentho track was completed to Wakarusathirteen miles from Topeka the achievement was duly celebrated by an

to that settlement In a borrowedpassenger car drawn by a borrowed

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phasized tho occasion by their presenceThey were enthusiastic but visibly skep-tical when Col Cyrus K Holllday projector of the enterprise proclaimed in aspeech that the crooked little road wouldone day touch the shores of the

Cy Warman the locomotiveand poet I said stated that one In-

credulous Individual threw himself uponthe grass when Holllday gave utteranceto his grotesque prophecy and shouted in

Oh the damned oldheard Mr Ripley replied

quite soberly The unbeliever on thewas afterward the general passen

of the road he added In1SG9 the year I entered the service ofthe Pennsylvania Railroad as a clerk inthe city of Boston he went on to say

the rolling stock of the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Company consistedof one secondhand locomotive twelve flatcars each of ten tons capacity a pas-senger coach that had between Cincinnati and ahandcar The running time of trainsfrom North Topeka to Burlingame adistance of less than twentyseven mileswas 2 hours and 35 minutes There werelive stations between it Is true and the

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loaded with ten tons of freight were allthat the strongest of locomotives couldpull Now there aje from thirty to sev-enty cars of fifty tons to a trainThe contrast between as I sawit and the present is striking Indeed ifone stops and reflects upon the factsof the case Transportation by rail hasbeen revolutionized The property of rail-roads has been rebuilt from the groundup We have new tracks new bridgesnew cars and new locomotives Eventhe grass and weeds along the right ofway are now trimmed or cut

The change has cost asum of money Men have gone into theirown pockets with remarkable daring andliberality to meet the expense They ex-pected profit of course but while theywere rebuilding their railroads they werepractically rebuilding the country andwhile they were ready to makemoney for themselves they were con-verting villages into cities and touching

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implication shall have his share of theproperty now unjustly denied him Itwas such grotesque and impossible prom-ises that fooled the people of RomePoliticians Interested solely in themselves mark you have agitated and legislated and railroad building has beenstopped That means that the purchase-of Iron Umber and labor has ceased

The now work under way will bathat money already spent may

but no more will be under-taken in my opinion until the peopleBilence the politicians who are Jeopard-izing both capital and labor or turn

out of office Meanwhile many ofhave quit making Im-

provements and others are runningdown in equipment and are neglectingto keep their tracks and bridges up tothe needed standard of efficiency Thecountry in due time will surely feel theeffects of the demagogical war on railroad investments There ba a period

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OPPOSES GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP

EDWABD PAYSON BIPLEYPresident of the Fe systembiG

dormant or inaccessible into hap-py life and prosperous activity

Yet most of the railroads in the UnitedStates Improved as they have been needgreater Improvements still Compara-tively few have been doubletrackedMost of them need better bridges and allroadbeds should be fortified with rockballast Mr James J Hill says weshould spend 600000000 In preparing ade-quately to do the countrys businesswhen the crops are large and labor is employed to the limit In my judgmentMr estimate should be multiplied

times Tfce age demands-an immense expenditure of new moneyThe people really desire that It be ex-pended However the railways are soIncessantly harassed by fortysix Statesand the national government that menInterested in the development of ourtransportation facilities have becomeweary and discouraged

Business Needs ProtectionNow the regulation of a business by a

State or by the government In Washington the protection of that business

morals and common justiceLegitimate business should be protectedby law It Is protected with the singleexception of the business of carryingthe freight of the nation of Insuring theprosperity of the country as a whole andof enriching hosts of people individually

farmers merchants manufacturers andothers

I shall pause long enough to say thatthe railways and only the railwaysmake the wide exchange of theof labor I wish theisis and men of the UnitedStates would take the sentence I havejust spoken into their minds for seriousand coherent reflection Nevertheless asI have said the railway business Is theonly property interest In America that Isdenied prolectional legislation by ourlawmakers Such laws as arc passedwith respect to railroads oro regulatoryand restrictive Absolutely nothing isdone to help us

Moreover the statements we makefrom time to time are rejected on theground that they are untrue or disingenuous We ore treated as persons out-side the common code and courtesies ofbusiness life as outlaws against thetruth and as tricksters who juggle withfigures that we may cheat tho publicRailroads capital lessthan mines mills or factories If wesay as we do say In our report to ourshareholders that the gross earnings ofthe Santa Fe System amounted to 34000000 last year and that we paid out 60500000 for labor material and taxes noone stops long enough to con-

fess that we are of to theWe get no only coband clubs

A Benefit to the NationWhat we do In the city of Topeka Is

being done In hundreds of other placesby the different railroads of the UnitedStates Our taxes In Topeka amount to

33000 a year In Shawnee County to 21

000 a year and in the State of Kansasto nearly 1100000 a year Four thousand-of our men live In Topeka and theydraw 245000 each in wages Themoney Is spent is earned andour employes sober and industrious menare buying homes for themselves andcontributing to the community in char-acter and citizenship weare doing can forand comfort of our men We haveschools for our apprentices and when anemploye can no longer work we give hima

responsible I Interruptedfor the hostile feeling toward rail-

roadsThe politicians Mr Rlpley calmly

answered clasping his hands behind hishead and stretching his long legs across-a corner of his desk American poli-ticians are like the politicians of ancientRome rhey go to the people and sayGive us office and we shall abolish yourtaxes and every man they assert by

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of stagnation and disintegration andtho government wilt then take the rail-roads

Sees Downfall of the RepublicAnd what will happen T I askedWe shall see the downfall of the re-

public Mr Ripley replied without anyshow of feeling You know It he saidturning to me and speaking emphatically

thoughtful and Intelligent manhe added Government own

ership of our railroads In the presentstate of our politics and with our presentkind of public men would cause thedownfall of the nation I have carefullygone over the matter In my ownand I am expressing my deliberatementYes

Mr Rlpley went on to say Ihave lived through changes of methods-In the operation of railroads and through

of public sentiment toward theSome one has said that man

Is only grateful for what he expects andnot for what he has already obtainedTo the lonely farmer with only a wagonand a yoke of oxan or a team of horsesfor his freight and a drive of manyweary miles to market the coming of arailroad was a blessing longed for andJoyfully accepted Corn and wheat bythe magic of quick cheap and easytransportation could be exchanged forshoes cloth and the common essentials of human existence Land thatwas useless was put to the plow Thevalue of property was multiplied manytimesManagers

of railroads understood thatthey needed loads for their empty carsThey were business men and not philan-thropists but their work was highlybeneficial to mankind Just the same

constructive blow they struck forhelped those who lived or

owned land or were engaged In businessalong their lines The Santa Fe com-pany typical of large railroad corpora

in has colonization agentsInto new communi-

ties and to turn barren stretches intoorchards gardens and blooming fieldsDryfarming is being taught by scientificagriculturists and occasionally moneyIs loaned for the purchase of seed andImplements We also have an Industrialdepartment that capital and opportunitymay be combined to build factories openmines and give remunerative employ-ment to willing men

Helps Develop IndustriesWo helped to develop the manufacture

of cement in the eastern tier of countiesIn Kansas There were limestone andgas In of the country cheapmaterial and fuel and when the gas gaveout there was plenty of oil More cementIs being produced In Kansas than isbeing produced anywhere else so I amtold It has been the same with sugarIn tho great Arkansas Valley east ofPueblo In Colorado were hundreds ofthousands of rich acres dead howeverfor the want of rain We encouragedIrrigation projects at a time when everyone knew much less about digging ditchesthan Is the case at present Waste landbecame productive and five modern

are manufacturing sugar In thattoday Farmers are making

money on the of thofactories a profit on theirsugar and the Santa Fe Railroad is haul-ing the

And owners and managersof our transportation beenbusy In developing theagriculture and the Industries of the na

politicians in our State legislaturesin Congress have been hectoring us

with Injurious legislation and enacting itinto law at times and Inflaming thepassions of the people against us and the

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create of our profits can be proved byour records and by tho agents of thegovernment who as I said have nccessto all the and Information con-

cerning our business Can you doubtthat the men with money invested in ourrailroads and the men charged with theresponsibility of managing our railroadstake a pretty gloomy view of tho futura

Denies Giving Rebates1t is said in Washington that rebates

ore now being given to some shippers-in the form of money paid for alleged

or delays to goods inI

We are not doing anything of thekind Mr Rlploy answered Nor do Ibelieve other roads are guilty of thepractice Rebating began when It seemedlogical and Just from the shippersviewpoint that the wholesale purchasers-of transportation should be given a dis

aa was the rule In all lines of busA anon who bought a carload of

salt got a reduction in price as agalnitthe man who bought but a single barrelof salt

There were plenty of railroad managers however who never accepted theprinciple In its application to transpor-tation They could look and see-the time when big manufacturers andmerchants enjoying the advantages ofrebates would drive the little manu-facturers and merchants out of businessBut the big shipper was a vigorous andresourceful individual After compellingthe impecunious roads to accept histerms ho found little difficulty in makingsatisfactory bargains with theRebating was always an evilopinion of railway men and I do not be-

lieve that it la being revived by anothermethod It was on abuse we ajl wantedabolished

Not PresbyterianYour given name Edward Payson

would Indicate that your parents weregood Presbyterians I said getting awayfrom to matters that are

My mother was a Payson and therewere Edwards in the family Besidesmy parents were not Presbyterians MrRlpley answered

Were you like most of the men whohave distinguished themselves in businessand the professions a poor boy

My father was a small merchant InMassachusetts His Income I saynever exceeded 600 a year butwell and I attended the Dorchester HighSchool until I was seventeen years oldwhen I went to work

WhereIn Boston going as an apprentice as-

wan the custom then into a wholesaleestablishment My wages were 50 ayear and I boarded at home I workedalong until I was made shipping clerkat 400 a year which was more money Ithought than could be conveniently managed by a young man By and by Iwas offered a better place In the Bostonoffice of the Pennsylvania Railroad Thatwas In 1S6S and I was twentyone yearsold In 1S70 I went with the ChicagoBurlington and Quincy Railroad becom-ing general Eastern agent in 1872 thengeneral freight agent then traffic manager and finally general manager I wasthird vice president of the Chicago Mil-waukee and Bt Paul Railway from liEto 1S96 Since the latter year I have oc-

cupied my present positionYou are one of the great railroad men

of the country I wild By whatmethods have you success-

I have never plansor methods Mr Ripley answered look-Ing at me in some puzzlement and

because of the character of thequestion I just took what came tohand and worked as hard as I couldNeither Influence nor pull as It Is calledwas ever employed in my behalf

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No I play golfCopyright 19M by James B Morrow

A MOONSHINER

An Odd Character Up in the OzarkMountains

The temperance wave In the Ozark reiglon of Missouri has deprived many ofthe old mountaineers of their customary

dram and caused a social drought almost equal to that of a long dry summerA large majority of the best citizens inSouthern Missouri counties favored thelocal option law and many voted for It inorder that the numerous distilleries in thehill country might bo put out of busfnessWhen these establishments closed it wasdifficult for the man who lives far fromthe railroad station to ship In a supply ofliquor

There Is one thing In particular forwhich a native of the Ozarks Isand that Is his resourcefulnessChicago Inter Ocean Those who hadbeen accustomed to going to the distilleryand buying liquor by the jug awoke tothe realization that the custom was atan end Something had to be done torelieve the situation

At Hammond In Ozark County sixtyfive miles from tho nearest railroad sta-tion lives Stoney Williams In his fer-tile brain he figured out plan which hebelieved would end the social droughtand at the same time revolutionize thelocal option law that is In force In al-

most county In the Ozark regionof

The Hammond Distilling1 Company wasorganized by Williams with a capitalstock of 5000 and a charter obtained fromthe secretary of state The shares werevalued at 10 each and only one sharewas sold to any person No trouble wasexperienced in selling the stock

The owner of a share of stock was aprivileged character at the distillery

He was permitted to bring his corn andhave it converted into meal or flour asthe case might be the liquor wasdistilled it was charge by thegovernment gauger and in duo time thetax was paid and the stockholder got hiswhisky less the amount token as tollfor converting the corn Into spirits

The distiller for the Hammond Distill-ing Company was Jim Loftus Every-one In the Ozark region fromCreek to White River knowsheard of Uncle Jim For almost fiftyyears he has made whisky and to usehls own expression there was many agallon that never had any revenue paidon It

In his younger days Jim Loftus had amoonshine still It was a transportableaffair and could easily be moved whenthe revenues as Jim called the gov-

ernment agents came around In oneconflict Marshal Langston was shot andtemporarily gave up the

A short time Ser-vice agent arrested Jim Loftus and tookhim to Jefferson City where the UnitedStates Court for this district was thenheld Jim was found guilty of wild-

catting as the revenues termed theIllicit distilling of whisky andgiven a sentence of one year In jail Heserved out his time In the Cole Countyjail at Jefferson City and was a modelprisoner While a prisoner In the JailJim composed a song each line or whichreferred to some character in his homecounty and the song became the anthemof the settlement where Jim bas residedfor than fifty years

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At no time since the restoration in1874 has the Spanish Crown ben

by so grave a crisis as at thepresent moment Not even in the disas-trous year of 1858 which witnessed thedefeat of the nation both on land and atsea as well as its loss of the Antillesand of the Philippines was the outlook

the war with the United Stateswas in progress conservatives liberalsand even republicans laid aside for thenonce their quarrels in order to present-a united front to the foreign foe andto avoid of a nature to embarrass the government in its efforts toretain possession of the Theclergy and tho religiousloyalty to the throne and even the Carlists were impelled by motives of pa-

triotism to intimate to the Queen RegentChristina that she had nothing to fearfrom them while the struggle was inprogress

Now the situation is entirely changedThere Is no longer any foreign war tounite the Spaniards against a commonenemy But they are on the verge of oneof those civil wars which have contributed more than anything else In thehistory of the kingdom to blight Itsprosperity and to Impede Its

and progressThe church and by that I mean not

only the episcopacy and the clergy butalso the enormously wealthy and in-

fluential religious orders areagainst the government and

against Alfonso XIIIFor he has definitely thrown in his lot

with tho cabinet and according toPremier Canalejas he is a thoroughlyconvinced liberal and a monarch ofmodern Ideas I have laid before himmy entire programme without any con-

cealment of the difficulties in the wayof its realization yet he has given mehis full confidence and cooperation

Until the overthrow of the conservativeadministration of Senor Maura last yearthe clergy and the religious orders con-

stituted the chief bulwark of the throneAlfonso XIII and the latters secretary

of state Cardinal Rarapolla was papalnuncio at Madrid at the time of theyoung soverlgns posthumous birth thereThe Interest of the late Pope and of theCardinal in the King was therefore ofan almost parental character and it ledthem to hold in check the Carllststhroughout his long minority by meansof threats of the penalties of the churchto the pretender If he even so much ascountenanced any rising of his

In Spain and of more drasticpunishment to any bishop priest ormonk guilty of lending support to theCarllst cause

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Spaniards at the Vatican Alfonso losttwo of his best friends who possessedof a large measure of statesmanship hadalways been willing to make allowancesfor the necessities of political exigencyand who wore able to appreciate thefact that certain concessions to liberal-ism and to the spirit of twentieth cen-tury modernism and progress were indispensable to the preservation of histhrone

Pius X has shown himself less indulgent and tho place of Rampolla as

of state has been taken byMerry del Vat who in spite

of his English education Is a Spaniardof the mpst ultraconservative traditionsprejudices and affiliations and to whom

in any shape or form is

with Spain have beencharacterized by so much intransigeance-as to interfere with the administrationof the and to block every

The revision of theconcordat that is to say of the treatyby means of which the relations be-tween the papacy and the state are governod has been long recognized as a

of urgency by liberal and concabinets alike

For it dates from 1S51 and life even inSpain has moved forward to such an ex-tent during tho past sixty years that Itis no longer suitable to the conditions-of the present dayIt Is a subject for regret that owing

to the Spanish national characteristicnamely procrastination the revision wasput off and put off during the lifetimeof Leo XIH with whom It would havebeen relatively facile to reach a com-promise The latter has become Impos-sible since Plus X has been occupyingthe chair of St and he has shownhimself unwilling to yield on anyor to meet the government in theest way

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ion of the concordat they will have to bemade by Spain in such a fashion as toremove tho restrictions imposed by thetreaty of 1861 upon the church and to in-

crease rather than diminish the lattersauthority

Senor Canalejaa is the first Spanishpremier to grapple with the revision ofthe concordat question with energy andvigor Moat of his in officehad the

had been afraid to put theirpromises Into execution and the rankand file of the Liberal party had becomeso discouraged by what they regarded asa betrayal of their that theywere drifting away into therepublican camp It was to arrest thiswholesale desertion and in the ofretaining Liberals aparty the dynasty that Canalejas set to work In real earnest to revisethe

the pretensions of theVatican from the very outset of thenegotiations and with the object of bring-ing pressure to bear upon the papacy theSpanish premier announced his Intentionof enforcing to the letter the provisionsof the concordat of 1851 Those imposed-a number of restrictions upon thewhich have been far more honored in thebreach than in tho observance

Thus the concordat limits the numberof religious orders In the kingdom toless than 100 whereas today there arenearly 4000 most of them owningproperty exemption from

as well as other privileges thatspeaking should belong only to

the orders provided for by the treaty of18S1 It is not merely that these unau-thorized religious orders are large owners of landed property but they are alsoengaged all over Spain In industry andcommerce some of them even owningsteamship lines and the very fact thatthey have been permitted to go untaxedhas given them enormous advantagesover their lay rivals in business and hasbeen a source of constant bitterness tothe latter

With the approval of the King Canalejas issued orders to the receivers general-of revenue in the fortynine ofSpain directing them toreligious congregations religious ordersand communities not explicitly author-ized by the concordat that they wouldhave in the first place to seek chartersin accordance with the terms and re-

quirements of the law governing the for-mation and existence of corporations andsocieties of one kind and another thatif they declined to conform to this de-cree their order would be dispersed andtheir property confiscated to the state

He also caused It to be intimatedthat if thoy obtained the necescharters they would thenceforth

be subjected to the same real estatetaxes income tax municipal and industrial imposts succession taxes and trans-fer tares as any other corporation or so-

ciety The premier further instructedthe minister of the treasury to obtain

his officers statistics of the inand trade on by the re-

ligious orders with to their beingsubjected to the same fiscal burdens asordinary industry and commerce

Pius X instead of being moved by thisdeparture of Premier Canalejas to endeavor to seek a compromise on the subject of the revision of the concordatpreferred to see therein a declaration ofhostilities He protested violently againstthe decrees concerning the unauthorizedreligious orders declaring that the premier had no right to Inaugurate anysuch policy while the negotiations

revision of the concordat were in

Moreover he has chosen to interpretthe action of the Spanish cabinet as thebeginning of a war such as that whichtho French government lisa been wag-ing against the Church ever since the repeal of the concordat and the cessaUonof all official intercourse with the papacya few years ago The dispersal by theFrench government of all the religiousorders that declined to submit to thelaws governing associations and corpo-rations and the confiscation of the vastproperty belonging to the church and tothe religious orders in France was agreat blow to the papacy and moreoverconstituted an enormous loss of revenuebesides a heavy drain on Its exchequer

The Vatican will not allow anything ofthe kind to take place in which-it has always regarded as peculiar preserve without a severe strug-gle Finding that King Alfonso hasthrown in his lot with Senor Canalejasand is determined to loyally support theLiberal administration on the ground thatit is only by so doing that he can keepabreast of the tide of republicanism thatIs arising all over the Iberian peninsula-in Spain as well as in Portugal the pa

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110s1 Mildred Carter was married io Vlsconnt Acheson June S3 at SiGeorges Hanover Square In London The American Ambassador and MrsWhlelaw Reid lent Dorchester House for the reception Had It not beesfor the court befog in mourning for the late King Edward there wouldhave beea many royal at the Mrs Carter raoikcr of thebride decided to keep possible

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pacy has turned against the Klngfanfipractically was upon him

It is war defense of theious orders and of their property InSpain a war for the protection of whatthe papacy regards as the rights and

the church In the kingdomCatholic Majesty The epis-

copacy the clergy and the religiousorders In Spain have been relieved bythe holy see of the prohibition Imposedupon them by Leo XIH to retrain fromcountenancing In any way the Carllstcause This is of course equivalent toan encouragement of them from Rome tothrow In their lot from henceforth withDon Jaime the Carllst pretender andtheir devotion to him will be all the moreemphatic and vigorous since his successmeans not only the preservation of theirpresent property and prerogatives butthe acquisition of additional rights andpowerfor himself has been given to

he would be free fromhenceforth as tar as the Vatican Is con-cerned to take any steps that he sawfit with a view to the enforcement ofclaims to the throne and when he reap-pears In Spain to head a Carllst risingit will be as the champion of the churchand itSTicfender from the policy of spolia-tion and oppression to which King Alfocso and Premier Canalejas are com-mitted In the eyes of Pius X and of hissecretary of state Cardinal Merry delVal

That Spain is on the eve of anothergreat insurrection no close observer affairs can doubt forone moment Within the last fortnightDon Jaime has been presented by theCarllst leaders with a goldembroidereduniform of Carllst generalissimo suchas that worn by his father In the Carllstwars of the seventh decade of the lastcentury with saber spurs and

ready forsoldiers of fortune these

stormy petrels of International politicsare flocking from all parts of tho worldto his chateau at Frensdorf and to thoCarlist centers In the south of Franceand In London

Don Jaime unlike his father is a soldier by profession has taken part asan officer of Russian cavalry In severalCentral Asian campaigns and in the twoRussian wars in Manchuria being deco-rated for conspicuous gallantry at thetaking of Mukden Moreover he Is veryrich and very ambitious and wholly lack-Ing In that Indolence which characterizedDon Carlos throughout his life and whichInterfered so greatly with the success ofeverything that he

Whether Don In hiscontemplated rising is a ofHe will have arrayedclergy the religious orders the peasant

fitly rate of the northern provincesto a certain extent the provincial

aristocracy who have always had a leaning toward legitimacy

Moreover all the great Spanish nobil-ity which Is still loyal to King Alfonsomight be relied upon in the event of thelatters disappearance to transfer theirallegiance to Don lame rather than toconfront the alternative of another re-public at Madrid

For the first time In the history of thewars there will be no lack

not only Donown large fortune but thereligious orders will be availableIt is understood that there are certainfinancial houses both in London and InParis that have expresses readi-ness to contribute extensively to any

Insurrection

I have referred above to the possibilityof the disappearance of Don AlfonsoThe latter Is In an exceedingly criticalstate of health Those who saw him inLondon at the time of Edward VHsfuneral a few weeks ago were shockedby his appearance and the eminent aurlstof Bordeaux whom Alfonso visits sofrequently Is greatly alarmed about himowing to the fact that the operation of

year has proved unavailing and thatmalady from which he Js suffering

has made such progress as to render afurther application of the knife in amuch more drastic and dangerous formurgent

There Is indeed a very general Impression both In Spain and In foreign capitals that Alfonso not outlive theyear and that his jrelga Is nearing itspremature end while the unpopularity ofhis English consort and her failure tosecure any hold on the affection of thepeople of the land of her adoption renderthe succession of her little boy under herregency to the last degree Improbable-

It Is necessary to mention this In orderto explain the present attitude of thepapacy Of course the latter feels bit-terly toward Don Alfonso for Indorsingthe anticlerical policy of Canalejas ac-cusing him of ingratitude In forgettingall that the holy see did to protect andsafeguard his throne during his Infancyand boyhood But It also considers Itselfobliged to contemplate the possibility ofa republic at Madrid where at the lastlegislative elections the entire capitalwent republican as did also Barcelonawhich is the Liverpool of Spain and thatother great city Valencia Although thepresent Liberal administration Is prepared to leave to the church most of theproperty and the possessions guaranteedby the concordat of 1851 a republic woulddo away with the concordat altogetherand deprive the church of everythingIt owned as well as all its rightsprivileges-

It has nothing but loss to expect fromthe present regime but worse from arepublic and having no confidence Inthe stability of Don Alfonsos throne orin the preservation of his life fears thatthe close of his reign either by revolu-tion or death will result lit tho procla-mation of a republic That Is why asthe only alternative within 4its reach Ithas allied Itself with the cause of DonSaline and has severed the leashes whichsince 1876 have served to keep in checkthe Carltsts

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