BACILLUS, November 1.
Ir is possible that history will claim as the outstanding political feature of the opening decade of the twentieth century the ravages of the revolution bacillus. After Rassia, Persia and Turkey comes Portugal among the scenes of its major visitations, while in the meantime the activities of a less virulent type of the same species have to be recorded in India, Egypt and Greece. To whatever extent political upheavals have ensued, a nasis of the various cases relarity of causes and of of the revolutionary germ. In regard to Persia and Tarkey there can be no two opinions about the conditions that made a revolution possible and indeed desirable. Greece and Portugal on the other hand may appear to some in a category apart, and to have had much in common at the time when they drew the world's attention to their domestic affairs. But while the former sought relief without changing the monarchical system, Portugal has gone to the extreme Jength of abolishing the dynasty. Only the most rabid Republicans can hold that the trouble lay entirely with King Manoel; none would maintain that the youthful sovereign was such an arch tyrant that all suggestions of naif
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