, 1879-04-30
GARIB.ALDI.

Ills Letter In Favor of Universal Suffrage.
Sp<efas Correspondence 0t The Tribune.
KoMg, ltaly. April 13.-I forward YOU letter
which Gnsibaltli hus Just utitircsscd to Prot.
Hovio, who last Sunday delivered a splendid
lecture iii aonu OH Universal Suffrage, und who
to'dav repeats It III Naples.
ThEs question Ia now brought forward for dis
cusslon, and furnishes common platform for
the Ra.leal Deputies anu Tor the Republican
chiefs.
Tho idca Ut an extended suffrage Inns been
mooted ever since 1850, ns. out Of a population
Of nearly ~ QUO Goo, GD0, 000 only nro electors,
It Is trio that, OF theae, scarccly more than
halt avail themselves of tic right to vote. Even
III 1873, when tho Aiodcratcs wcro for the first
time defeated, only GO per cctt OF the electors
went 10 the Urn.
1t liz also truo il,at The party which will avail
itself chiefly Of the privilege will bp tlse Con-
scryutiye Catholics, who ura weary OF bolug lctt
out in the cold, and who have obtuIno<l uurmis-
sion Of the Pope to rctract tho old cry "Neither
eicrtors nor clected.h
But, nevertheless, tile agitation Is deemed lse-
full; u1u nll thu Liberal n,gInbera aro pledged to
soma sort of extenAluH Of tho franchise.
The 1ncuttng Is tn bu IN Gurbaluls own house,
and IL to takc utncc on tho alst.
The letter tlus MT yet beau published In any
Italian piper. Whcn II ~. theirs viii be souu
wartl discussion. US thu ulus!on to tlle Republic
IL OpGn niAl direct:
GAAluALprs LETTER ON GENERAL surfRAaE.
DEAR boy!o: / know os your Utl1cleious
speech Nh Universal SufEeage-fnado hnre IN
Kotnu utter The initiative tukcn by tho licpub-
l!san x;an ), Assos'at'o''-en'i'led "rhe Rights Of
applaud you'll
know you ure about to speak on tho same
aFGnlncns Ii Naples; md tint Cavollotti Is 10
ireat the san,u subject In VenIru, Ycrtant iu
EimtHl, nntt others elsewhere.
1consltGr 1t this strirt duty ol tho Republican
pnrty to uuItu tts forces I'll tho field 9f legal
Ngttuilon, III order to succeed gradually III those
organizations. WHICH, tn hnrsn0ny with tie char
acter A,Ml historical 0flcu OF thu Italian Nation,
!1ibnru to Italy liberty as I'll inylolahac right,
whereas to-day tiut right Icpan:is ou tho whisn
OF Minister or ou thu programme OF tab-
inet.
Such organization can alone place 1talf In q
position tn exert all her activities aNl to trYsiop
al hct Riches to rceUyer fr0 tllu sat- lnaladY Of
Misery.
And for this enl meal, To hold succch with
the ccf Democrats wtDni Italy huhors.
Universal Suffrage IL tho ehtef und funlla-
mental ri alt reforms. ......
lI1 Who IL b,,,iIHl 10 obey tic inv las a right
to inakc thu law; Ilp WHO Is hnunl to defend
the country ought to havo the right tn elect thu
SYnttc ol the CoH'uldnr. and tho Deputy to
Parliament.
This Is lilo basis Of socIat Justice.
10 the s1Dhists, 10 tho ctthatrcg, to the
nodesates, who coinoat nat Justice, ! reply
,l.ut tA!s pculu, IL whom thu toga Wills is ID
l,icd, ycs proved themselves rapablc-ifrst by
thetr arms, then hy tcIr yote-of creatln., tLiu
unity uf Italy; ail that thu maintenance Ut u
Clerical pbalaiix IN parllamsut Is tesirub,o o.
hens that which, establishing the an,tlhcs!s Ut
Two principles, will rouse tlic Parliament from
tla lAMguor Which 10 now uit!ictlrg it, ul.I will
nwaku nl ,he enert:tes of which Italy ID capa+
biz, u,n! proyoko yitnl u!sa fertlIs tsarussiona.
surely We ought not to desru un artificial
ltalY, bur y real Italy. It Inns becu said That
"ltaIy Il Of tne ltatans." 1t ought not, there.
atsl Imposes itsell un the country,
send sal!lta tn thu noblr City Of Nipples.
Adllo, my dear Doyio, fours,
q. UANlNALDI,