The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-01-14
RIPE FOR REVOLT.
Serious Trouble Ahead for
Humbert
TO RISE ALL OVER ITALY.
COnspiratOrs Plotting a Con-
Certed Rebellion.
DOWN WITH THE ROYAL HOUSE.
The Trouble in Sicily Was Fomented
TO Draw Troops Away From
the Mainland.
o RISE ALL OVER ITALY.
DOWN WITH THE ROYAL HOUSE.

New YORK, Jan. 13.-Harold Frederic
cables the Times from London: | have
good reason to believe that during the
coming fortnight or three weeks there will
be more or less concerted attempt at
revolution in various portions of Italy
My principal informant is a Continental
publicist, at present living 10 London, who
has had much to do with Italian politics,
and is now in close communication with
parties there. 1t was due to him that l
was able some time ago to foreshadow the
Sicilian uprising and other connected
events which are now matters of history.
His information now is that before the
end OF the month there will be nearly
simultaneous revolutionary demonstra-
TONS in. Turin, Modena, Bologna, Milan,
Mantua, Parma, Ferrara, Ancona, Foggia
and numerous other points of the north
and east peninsula. / get the impression
that Florence. Genoa and Rome will not
be counted upon, and that If Naples con-
tributes her quota of disorder it will be on
general principles of imitation rather than
as result of an organized plot.
The Province of the Marches and the
ancient Duchy of Parma are understood
TO be points where the Government will
encounter the toughest obstacles in its
efforts TO maintain itself. Still it is eX-
tremely difficult to get at the facts as 10
who is doing all this, and especially as to
who is paving the bills. There seems to
be most incongruouS union Of various
elements hostile to tie house of Savoy.
The active organization appears to be in
the hands of advanced socialist leaders,
and it is safe to say that considerable
number Of Radical Deputies besides those
already arrested know what is going on.
WHAT is not so clear is the nature of their
relations with two other diSaffected TO rces,
namely. the clericals and the partisans of
the dethrOned Bourbon dynasties.
Undoubtedly there is some sort of an
understanding between all three. and it
will surprise no one if it be discovered in
time that the Duke Of Parma is financing
the whole enterprise. Evidence becomes
stronger daily that the parish priests in
Sicily have been playing an important
part in fOrmenting the rebellions there,
ana 1t is known that the Sicily insurrec-
tlon was started for the purpose OF forcing
the Government to denude Italian towns
Of their gaITisOus. This end had been
attained quite as fully as the ccnspirators
could have hoped. There is quiet for the
moment in Sicily, but it has been secured
at the cost of keeping the elite of the
Italian army at a distance of two or three
days travel from points on the mainland
where troops will be most needed.
1t is believed that among the young
reserVists who are now doing duty IN the
chief Italian towns in place of regulars
drawn off to Sicily there exists an exten-
sive socialist propaganda and that a GER
tain proportion of them will either Join the
reVolutionists or allow their arms and
arsenals to be easily captured. Very
much depends upon this, for l cannot
learn that the cOnspiratOrs have any arms
of their own to speak Of
1t should be borne in mind that while all
this is authentic enough it represents
merely plans that may fail conspicuously
when put to the test of operation.
The elements of weakness in the con-
spirators' chances are very obvious. They
can unQuestiOnably bring out great masses
of men in revolt, and probably can create
dangerous riots in almost every town and
village in the kingdom. but unless they
can also rely upon considerable treason or
mutiny In the army, these riots will accom-
plish nothing beyond savage wholesale
massacres.
Vatican officials are said to believe that
the revolution will be successful, and that
the Quirinal will be tenantless and the
Savoy family in exile before spring. Natu-
rally they cherish the hope that the con-
vulsion will bring grist to their mill, and
everybody assumes, though none can
prove, that they have been helping on
the conspiracy and disorder.
But this hope is surely infatuated. If
the King is driven from Rome and the
mob finds the control of the capital in its
hands l should say about the first thing it
will think of will be to sack the Vatican.
There is enough disaffection in Rome
toward the monarchy to inspire formid-
able uprising. no doubt, but that senti-
ment is mildness itself compared with the
hatred of the Roman proletariat for the
whole Papal establishment. The yeper.
able Pontitf probably supposes that his
encyclicals about the woes of workingmen
and the duty Of the church toward The
poor and lowly have endeared him to the
trades unions of Italian towns. There
never was a more cruel mistake. How.
ever. it Is needless TO speculate upon re-
mote contingencies when a very serious
and notable reality is apparently close at
hand.