The sun., 1894-01-28
EUROPEAN POLITICS.
rnE UNMAKINo or IrALT.

| Aationnl Socialism rnsntring the Attack
- the UnIty OF Itsiy-A Srrious Outlook
worthy OF AttsAtiou Even N America.
MILAN, Jan. o-The KEY OF the actual situs-
ton in Italy. which the press and the poll
ticians OF western Europe seem to be looking
for everywhere excepting where II is TO be
found. lies In a few words spoken By Crispi
four years ago at Rome to q friend acting as
an Intermediary between himself and the
Marquis dl Rudlni. the sicilisn head OF what
passes current ms the Conservative party in
| Italy These words were: Il had IN active
hand In making Italy; do not intend. II can
help It. to let Italy be unmade.'
Between his early manhood In 1913 and the
overthrow Of the papal authority by the Ital-
ian troops In September, 1870. Crispi certainly
had a very busy hand In many movements
| looking to the overthrow Of the system OF
States. established In Italy by the Holy Alliance
and Metternish. with the active help OF Eng
land. after the fall OF the first Napoleon. He
took an energetic part In the siclIian revou-
| tion OF 1S4S against the House OF Bourbon.
and when order was restored" throughout
the Peninsula by the Victory OF the Aus
| trians over Charles Albert in the north
and by the overthrow at Rome OF
| the republic by the French. Crispi with many
other Sicians had to take refuge In France.
IndefatiGable in his passionate hostility to the
old order OF things. he kept up close com
HluulChllOnS WITH tne TeNOlullOudEy olemoutb
not only in Sicily. but on the mainland.
When the victories OF Napoleon I'LL and
| Victor Emanuel In 1859 drove Austria out OF
| Lombardy and opened the way for the for
nation OF the Kingdom OF Italy, the Italian
republicans thought the moment had arrived
| for making a republican experiment possible
| by n revolution In the kingdom OF the two
Sicilies. This led to the famous and success
| ful expedition ot Garbadi with his thousand
| a1,,n - "a d, IA.
| tion. and dlstin guished himself after the de-
feat Of the Bourbon troops By the ability and
| determination with which he successfully op-
! posed ana controlled the tendency OF many OF
| his moro extravagant associates to extreme
| measures. threatening the foundations OF
social order at Palermo and throughout
| tho island. When Victor Emanuel. FORUM
ately for the future OF Italy. had intervened
| at Naples to;brng all southern Italy under the
sceptre OF the house OF Savoy. and United Italy.
as constitutional monarchy. became a reality
! In Europe. Crispi was elected for Palermo to
| the first Italian Parliament. in 1891.
1t was naturally not very easy for him at
| first to adjust himself to the new order Of
things as organized and directed by Cavour.
and It is curious incident in his political
biography that he and Mordini. as Deputies.
should have been arrested by the military
authority OF the royal Government more than
thirty years ago. In fact. during the whole
history OF the existing kingdom OF Italy no
other deputies have ever been so arrested un-
til three or four days ago. whom Gen. Nora.
acting as virtual Dictator OF Sicily. in concert
with Crspi himself as Premier OF tho Gov
| ernment, found 1t necessary to seize and
lock up De Fsllce. tho would-be Socialist
chief OF an intended scilian revolution and
Deputy for Catania.
Between 1861 and 1894 events have indeed
moved on strange line in the most interssting
and beautiful of all European oountries and
as the few sentenoes have already nsnned
will have shown Francesco Cr,sni ha. movsd
with them. This IL greatly to his credit, not
merely as a politician and A statesman hut "a
An Italian patriot: and wbat,ver NAV bs the
issue OF the conflict which obviously /. "a be
| fore him in the parliamentary nr,na At Monte.
citorio. IL would be most unjust not 70 award
| him pron Mt and unnualii'ed prai,s for IN. ds
| cision with which hs bns strnck and "a strit
ing at the leaders OF a new Sicilian insurrection
| which threatens thu xarv a.istanca n, unit.d
Italy. To a certain extent. It ia undoubtedly
true that Italy was made thirty wars apo as
much in spite as in consequences Of the activity
at that time displayed in public matters bv
Crispi and by many Of those with whom bs was
most conspiruousIy associated. The critics Of
the Prime Minister OF 1894 are welcome to all
the cavils they can extract from the story NJ
the Scilian reyolutionist OF 1S4S ana
1850. Fairly interpreted az thov ought
to be- by the light of bis wboIe caresr
these cayils must tend. with men q, a.nse
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as the central figure OF tho battle which tho
Goyernment of King Uumhert Ia now maLi,a
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10 prevent 'he uhmaRing Oh taly' lhat battlo
Is matter. let mo assure you OF very deep in
tar.st not onIv IN tina neonIa NJ T,aIv hut to
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every cNlliled country In Europe. and' II am
not Grieyously mistaken. to every civilized
country aIao In Amarica for po,hin1 oon no
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more certain than thls' that the real object OF
the organizations by which the outbreaks of
the INST month tbrouobout Sicilv bava hoan
- - ~ ' ""'o ooen
engineered mas oeen ana Is 10 Drlng TO mead
against the existing order Of things in Italy all
those suhvarsiye forcas wbich ara farmonti,r
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uhuer the SURFACE OF the existing order OF
things In every civilized country in the world
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