The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-04-02
PEANUTTA STATESMANSRIP.

CRISP, late Italia n premier, was forced
10 resign because he was trying to do an
impossible thing to please his master, the
King. HUMBERT is ambitious to have Italy
pose as one of the great powers. His king
dom occupies an advantageous geograph-
ical position, and he cannot understand
why it should not be great and powerful in
the esteem of the world He does not re-
alize that something besides favorable To-
cation on the map and a glorious antiquity
is essential to greatness in this age He
insists upon posing as one of the foremost
nations, and CRIsPI did everything in his
power to crafty the ambitious within. The
result has been disastrous to the minister,
who had to stand aside when the oppression
became greater than the people could en-
dure, ana bankruptcy threatened the king
dom. The poverty stricken masses, pow
erty stricken by reason of the grind Of the
taxi atherer, openly mumbled their discon-
tent with the government which clothed
them in rags and permitted them one-half
what they wanted to eat in order that
royalty might cut dash, that an immense
but useless standing army might be main
tanned, and that the King might build a
formidable navy. The blame fell upon the
minister, whereas the fault was with the
monarch. CRIsPI is probably the brainiest
statesman in Italy, and if he had been per-
mltted to recognize the fact that Hum
BERT's is a third-rate power, he might have
made something out of the kingdom. He
had to go, however, to quiet the popular
discomfort, and it would seem that the
King has surrounded himself with advisers
of the peanut vending class of statesmen.
HIS prime minister would apparently be
more at home behind nut-roasting street
oven. This view is impressed upon one
the more he considers this business of the
recall of the italian representative at Wash
ington. If all the nations of the earth
were to unite in a request to the United
States regarding the New Orleans affair
this government could move no faster than
it is moving and could do no more than it is
trying to do. Justice is taking its course
in the regular way and that is all that can
be done at present. Until there had oc
Cured stoppsge of the wheels, or failure
had been announced, Italy should have
been contented to do nothing. Statesman
ship and diplomacy would have suggested
this. But the ministry made an impetuou:
dash, and what will be the result? JUS
such result as might be expected to fol
low when peanut craftsmanship leads
There will be no war between Italy an,
the United States. Tom THUMB and jon,
L. SULLIVAN could not have fought unde
any conditions or circumstances. If Italy
were foolhardy enough to send her navy
across the Atlantic with the view to tn
bombardment of some of our sc
coast cities, one of two thing,
would speedily follow-the ships would
= go to the bottom of the Sc
: OF they would float the American Jack q
the masthead, while Italy would at ono
practice economy in order to pay the in
: demnity which the United States woul
G exact from HuMBERT for having made fot
: Of himself.
But war being out of the question, wha
must follow the hasty action Of Tuesday
8 Certainly nothing which will reflect credi
Q on Italy. HuMBRRr must either return hi
5 representative to Washington with
request that he be still acknowl
u edged, or he must break off a
diplomatic intercourse with the re
|, public. One course will be humiliating /
/ the extreme, and the other will hurt onl
!, Italy, for it can concern America ant
i Americans not at NIL whether or not a
Italian embassy shall be maintained a
> Washington, and United States repre-
: sentative shall be stationed at Rome
1 while it is extremely importan
to mob of HUMBERT's subjects in thi
country that they shall have somebody t
whom they can appeal for protection
!; their organ-grinding and peanut-vendin
1 operations. The discontinuance of friendl
: relations simply means that there will b
no place on American soil for the stiletto
carrying, organ-turning, street. peddlin
q villains and nuisances from Italy, who ar
tolerated now simply because the tw
countries are on good terms. The wa
: which will face the incoming Italians Wi
i be higher than that which is presented +
!, the Chinese, for in the former case tn
barrier will be guarded by all the people