The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-08-13
ITALT AND AMERICA,


Wnr-itniy n. u Great Naval Power-Thc
Giovanni Bausan a Fnmou, italian
Sailor OF the Revolutionary Epoch-l.ord
Nelson md Caraccioio-A Dark Chapter
or History. In which Bnusan Figured
ROME. July 25.-Probably no sovereign In
Europe Is so much his own Minister OF Foreign
Affairs as the King OF Italy; and certainly no
country In Europe Mt this moment has so
cieVer Minister OF Foreign Affairs M Italy
Many things might be cited to provo this prop
ostioh' which Is OF the greatest importance
Just now to everybody on either sido OF the
Atlantic. who Is interested in the maintenance
OF international peace. But just at present |
content myself with calling attention to the
sagacity shown by the Italian sovereign in his
recent order directing that one OF the finest
OF the Italian ironclad cruisers. the Giovanni
Hausan. be sent to take part in tho colebrn-
ton at New York OF the festivities which arc
to commemorate in October the discovery OF
America by Columbus.
Much has already been said by way
OF comment upon the nmiable kilograms
exchanged between President Harrison and
King Humbert on this subject; but there
Is moro In the mission OF tho Gio-
vanni Bausan than meets tho casual eye in
these amiable kilograms For moro than a
year past great deal OF irritation has been
growing up in Italy over tho relations be-
tween Italy and the New World. This irrita-
tion flrst assumed IN active form when tho
people OF Now Orleans took tho law
into their own hands and lynched in
that city number OF Italians charged
with conspiracy and murder: but 1t began
long before with the stories which reached
Italy from time to timo Of violence and i'll
treatment suffered. or alleged to have been
arpI ht, ~;
United States but in one or another of tho
Spanish American Republics. Such stories
were particularly frequent from Uruguay and
Brazil. In both Of which countries the Italians
are not only extremely humorous. but re-
markably industrious and prosperous. Notice
was constantly taken. too. In the italian press
OF the repeated troubles In the United States
especially in New York and in the Northwest.
between Italian laborcrs and tho laborers from
other parts Of Europe. with whom the Italians
have been steadily coming into competition
during tho last decade in the American
labor market.
The recall Of Baron Fava from the Legation
In Washington was really due. think 1t may
now be safely said, much more to q wish on
the part of tho Italian Government to appease
the transportation of the italian people than to
any serious expectation OF real rupture with
the Government OF the United States. Tho
lynchnR at New Orleans brought to q head,
so to speak. the feeling which had been long
growing up in Italy. that Italian emigrants
beyond tho Atlantic were exposed to outrage
and injustice through tho failure OF the Italian
Government to make the transatlantic nations
understand that Italy has really become. not
| only one Of the great powers OF Europe. but
ono OF tho great naval powers OF tho world
and that as great naval power Italyis album
lnN 20,
in all parts Of the world. In the case of the
United States this feeling of irritation was I'M
| doubtcdly embittered long before tho lynch
| ing Mt New Orleans by tho injudicous hand
| ling Of tho diplomatic rotations between
Washington and Rome under the adm inistra-
! tion OF President Cleveland. when an oppor-
| tunity was unfortunately furnished to the
Italian opponents of the Vatican to affirm that
the American Government was taking sides
! with tho Pope against the Quirinal.
Tho suspension Of diplomatic relations
| which followed tho correspondence of Mr.,
Blaine and Baron Fava over tho New
| Orleans matter. had tho good effect in
| Italy Of producing tho impression that
| tho Italian Government was ready and
determined to take decided action any
where and everywhere in behalf of its subjects.
But during the last three or four months the
first by an affair in the Northwest between
some Italian railway workmen and n Swedish
contractor. and more recently and moro
| seriously by tho murder under aggravated
| circumstances Of an Italian ship Captain in
| the port OF Sac Paolo in Brazil. and BY several
| disagreeable collisions between the Portuguese
and the Italians in tho southern part of this
latest born Of tho American republics. Italy is
| now passing through the throes Of an electoral
period. and the opponents OF tho Giolitti Adj
minstraton have made great cutlery over
the fact that tho Italian flag is found to he
| represented n. this interesting moment in the
Brazilian waters only by couple OF small
men of war. the largest Of which. tho Veinnpo.
is not much. il at all. moro formidable than
the alleged cruisers to which the honor OF the
United States has usually been confded on
the coasts OF Spanish and Portuguese Amer
lea. Economy Is Just now the watch word Of
the Italian Government. rs it is of all FREQ Gov
ernments during an electoral period. and II
the Italian Naval Administration had sent n
couple OF ironclads to bring the Braziians to
book. the Italian Treasury would no doubt
have been severely attacked for allowing tho
necessary expenditure. by the very newspapers
| which most angrily insisted that the ironcln,ls
should be sent. This. then. is the psychologist
cal moment 80 adroitly chosen by King Hum
tic waters one of tho finest and most formda-
Bile OF the Italian ocean cruisers. not in the
lcast on an errand Of vengeance or OF war. but
on q mission Of peace and civilization. or
course Italy. the native land of Columbus.
must DO adequately represented In America.
when the greatest city Of the New World cole
bratcs the fourth centenary OF his great dis
| covery How could Italy be bo;tcr represented
| on such an occasion than b stately vessel.
which bears in iefrrunr" TO tho little caravcls
| of the discovercr something not unlike the
| relation borne by III" little liguran village OF
| Cocorctto in which tn" best authorities assert
| that Columbus was really born. to the i'm
mcnse metropolis 81 modern American poll
| tics finance and rommarco? Certainly Colum-
| bus himself would be much less astonished by
walking up Broadway to-day. than ho would
| be BY setting foot on the deck of tho Giovanni
| Bausan. while her gigantic guns were saluting
| the forts and ships in Now York harbor
While the sdvent Of the Giovanni Eausnn.
therefore. will really lie. as President Har-
| rison calls il, II graceful and appro-