The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-03-22

and am doing III THAI nc -. ~ II ~ :
E.,i.rct;on dss Peuples, an association
w No object is, besides the prevention OF
-. +he social and economic einanclpa-
s;er ~ the Impressed. France, the great
ho,oe If revolution and liberty, the intel.
iectual center OF the world, IS being played
for Nv kings; they. are threatening 20
invade her, to tread ner r Ineer ,bo o' the =,
1MarseilIaise'-that sublime hymn which
has often called upon the oppressed to
revolt against their oppressors-mignt De-
come the funeral chant OF France ana OIL
revolutionary Europe.
The FMS Pol0niG is recorded on the page
of history to teach US of what crimes kings
are capable. We must not let seconu
s,,ch crime be committed. We cannot
stand bv and watch the death OF France
succeed to that of Poland. The tnts
Fronc;x would be cause Of mourning Tor
the world: it would be the end of liberty:
of fraternity, of the hopes OF all oppressed
peoples.
The italian government. though the OF
spring of revolution, has undertakem .n nc
infamous role of a servile instrument IN
the hands Of Germany; 1t has placed itseii
in the vanguard Of Williams army against
a sister nation. The servitude OF the
French nation would mean slavery for the
Italian people and for all ether Latin races;
1t is the duty of these races, therefore, ana
of all men who are friends OF justice ana
liberty, to unite in an endeavor which
shall Illustrate this conspiracy OF kings,
which shall prevent q nation whose sons
have SO often fought side by side with
those of France from taking mp arms
against her in company with their mutuai
enemy.
No it must not be and shall not be. The
blood shed at Magenta, at Palesho and
Solferino. at Dion, Nuts and Talant has
created between Italy and France bond
which will never be broken and which I'M
poses upon us the duty of uniting our
every effort to ward off the threatened con-
fiict. 1t is the aim of the Federation des
Peuplcs to combat by all and any weapons
the Loyolesque maneuvers oil our common
enemies, to remove the MISUNDERSTANDING
to which these maneuvers have already
given rise, to maintain the indissoluble
union of nations of Latin origin, and, II
necessary, to form an active band, re-
solved to face all eventualities, even the
most extreme.
In view of a possible war with the Rus
sian government, the disgrace OF numah-
ity and of civilization is very adroitly ex-
plotting the political situation of Europe
and the fright of the French government.
/ am firmly convinced that if tomorrow a
European war broke out and Russia were
attacked, she would, in return for the
friendship she stimulates for France, re-
ceive French money and French troops;
but it, on the other hand, France were at
tackled. neither a soldier nor centime
would that country receive from Russia.
The whole policy of the Russian empire is
opposed TO the granting of such aid, and
the car is not the man to forsake the ira
ditions of Peter the Great in order to be
polite to M. Carnot Little.
1t may be replied to me that France
hfa zod 70 mo r.
the German frontier, forcing Germany to
mobilize an army at the point threatened
and thus facilitating the movements of the
French troops. All that has been foreseen
by the triple alliance, and believe it more
than probable that the Russian emperor
would prefer to form part with his COM
peers of the triple alliance than with the
democrats of the Elysee palace.
The governments of Europe are all
equally bad. Look at the bondage of Ire
land to England. 1t is an infamy and a
disgrace to England. The cruel, unjust.
infamous, Ubiquitous and barbarous way
In which the English government has al
ever remain, a stain upon the good fame,
not only of the government which DEGREES
such measures as have been employed by
England, but also of the English nation,
which tolerates, which does not revolt
against such an infamy The Irish have
right to life, to liberty and to comfort,
like every other nation. The courage they
have displayed in their heroic conflict
with England will ever remain inefface-
able in the memory of oppressed nations
and will teach these latter how people
struggle when right and justice are on their
side. L admire the frlnness Of the Irish
leaders. The persistence they have shown
In this Titanic struggle has rendered their
names dear to all the oppressed, and we,
the revolutionists of the world, heartily
wish them an early and definite victory.
1t must not be believed that the Ameri-
can republic is our ideal. We are no more
tender towards it than we are towards that
of France, for the reason that they are
both merely monarchies without kings.
The step America has recently taken to-
wards protection l consider impolitic and
anti-social, for the United States should
not endeavor to isolate herself from the
Old World, which every day is sending her
the best of her children, without whose Ia
Dor America would be a political and eco
nomic cipher. We social revolutionists
cannot regard the Mckinley measure at all
favorably, for the riches of the new world
might have afforded some temporary res
pite to the soil of the old world, exploited
to its very blood by small clique Of cap
italists who insatiably accumulate their
millions from the sweat of the world of
workers. AMILcARE CIpRrAyr.
Ex-Minister of the Italian Chamber of Dep
uties.