Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-03-17
DENOUNCED ABROAD.
Foreign Newspapers Use Strong Ian
guage in Their Comments.


LONDON, March 17,-The latest ad-
vices from Rome and other points in
Italy state that the Italian newspapers
comment in the strongest possible Ian
guage on the massacre of Italians in
America. Various suggestions are made
as to obtaining satisfaction, nearly all
uniting, however. in the assertion that
unless satisfaction is given the Italian
government should have nothing to do
with the Chicago exhibition, and should
withdraw the promises Of support al
ready given. 1t is insisted that the
Italian government shall spare no effort
to have the murderers brought to JUS
tice, whoever they may be.
Not Safe to BE an American.
One paper significantly adds that this
is necessary in order to make Italy safe
country for Americans to visit. Popu-
lar feeling on the subject is even strong
er than on Sunday, and almost nothing
else is talked of i'll the streets.
AT Palermo, Sicily, it would be danger
Gus for an American to be recognized as
such and the few there have already
departed for southern France, or places
in Italy where their nationality is not
known.
The italian embassy has been begeiged
with callers and messages Monday. urg-
ing action on the part of Italy to obtain
satisfaction, and one excited visitor was
heard to prOpO. e an immediate declara-
ton of war, and a raid by Italy's fleet on
American commerce.
The News, commenting on the lynch
ing of the Italians in New Orleans, saws:
tti+a1Kr'g inli lip1,DrInI1 10 gbop41 I,r
whole Ciyilil ed world in nearly all
such cases in America corruption is at
the root of the evil. The Americans are
at once the most patient and the most
impatient people in the world. When
they have grown too tired of any griev-
ance they move to their revenge with
the swiftness of hawk The people of
New Orleans could have soon discovered
which of the journeymen in the Italian
trial had fingered the murderers gold.
and it would be better to keep the Jail
intact for them,
The Post says that Saturdays occur
renee in New Orleans will form a de-
plorable page in American history
The st. James Gazette SAYS: mo
reasonable man can doubt that the Ital-
ians ac luitted of Hennessy's death had
a guilty knowledge of it, or that the
verdict was an infamous one, whether
it was bought for a price, as the lynch
ers declare or was brought about by the
personal cowardce of the jurors who
feared the revenge of the Malta. The
New Orleans lynchings discredit the
people of the United States, who pride
themselves on being a shrewd, business
like people yet sit quietly by while
Judge and jury carry on traffic in the
sale OF acluittals as if they were bales
of cotton"
The Riforma, Of Rome says that the
New Orleans outrage disgraCes the Coun-
try in which it occurred.
The PopolC Romano in discussing the
shooting of Sicilian prisoners by the
New Orleans mob, says; Relying on
the foresight Of the American authori-
ties. and out of regard for a sincerely
friendly power, Italy has refrained from
sending an ironclad to the mouth of the
Mississippi
FL Captain Eracassa, says: The weak
in America are at the mercy OF fero-
cious and bloody populace. and are tor
tured and murdered in daylight
The Don ClisirOtte Dell "A Mancia de.
clares that Italy ought to demand that
instant measures be taken to protect the
Italian colony in New Orleans" 1t
qualities this uttGrance somewhat, how
ever. by adding; 1T is Just also to
recognize the fact that similar incidents
would not occur if the towns on the
Atlantic littoral were not infested with
the ex galley slaves of Europe"