The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-10-07
an IrALIzx QUESTION.


To TBE EDITOR or TEE sus-str: Your accom-
plished correspondent, AN American Travel.
ler." does not rice 10 the sound ethical standard
| Of TIE SuE IN his untenable distinction betweet
| Crispi and 1.-THE actual sindic Of Rome, the Mar
chese Guiooioli, At the setting up In the Eterna
| City Of that monument TO Giordano Bruno
Although personally absent Crispi was virtu.
ally present. His letter TO the promoters OF tn,
monument expressed all they could have de-
sired, and was greeted with applause. TBr
Sun counts among its readers numerous stu.
dents Of stayism, who will DO Interested In com.
pairing pro-sindio Guiccioli Of Piedmontess
Rome with that noted functionarys kinsman
embslmed in the diary OF Ireland's poet lsu-
reate, Thomas Moore. during his visit TO Lord
Byron at Venice In the autumn of 1919;
Lord Byron came up TO town at Q O'Clock, and
he and dined with Scott At the Peliegrnoi showed
US letter which his Countess the Guiccio had jus,
received from her husband, In which, without word
OF sliusion 70 the way In which she IL living with
Byron, he makes proposal with respect 20 money
Of Byron's being invested In his hands ~ thing adj
ysntsseous 10 both; nns specimen Of italian hus
nd"-kemotrs. Journal a-d Corresporderes Of
Thor'ds Moore. BY the RteM How. lord John Russell
NJ p vol &C.,, pdosN
In declaring that he never will surrender q
foot Of Roman soil, Crispi has eclipsed the famed
Three Tailors of Tooley Street," known 80
I'VE. the People Of England" The italian
Premier is no tailor. lie IL q Crispin Of the
Crispins. who have maintained with imme-
mortal adhesiveness that there IL nothing like
wax. Certainly It can stick more steadfastly
than all the sartorisl combustibles from the sx-
ploded old Banca Romano to the lettering Old
Lady of Threadneedle street. When, therefore,
Crispi says, and pompously afirms, that he will
not clear quito out Of Rome, he simply enun-
ciates the post-diluvian aphorism that q cobbler
should stick to the last as long a. he can.
Moreover. the distinguished craftsman has .
superb Roman precedent. Who has not read OF
that prince Of cobblers that once sat enthroned
the ficklest Of mobs Is the proyerbially mutinous
Roman plebs: Scarcely had the flames been ex-
when the bones OF the dictatSrisi Crispin were
When The ia Ian Prime Minister goes for a
one way q escape ap from Roms T. through tSe
yellow pillows Of the classic Tiber, whereof
Guidi sings:
Peril awaits the light eonndins bark.
Fos ed tSes s SSgse. s ana asep;;
Enye Tndnf b wHte5s ,s mi, n,om,.
As to the precise date on which Crispi q Co.
shail niily Willy, clear ont Rome, y will suffice
th one 81 those spstsmnstc poems Nth IN
American Parnassus:
sS s:ay bet YET
Meantime. the best thanks Of tho Diplomatic
Body due TO the ambidextrous statesman
who has 80 wttily hoodwinked the great un-
we never Will give up Rome" Never has
political dictum been 90 skilfully enveloped In
unassatlable yerbiage. Not even the Hebrew
legislator could have carved on the tables Of
Sinai any utterance moro physically true than
the rudimental Latinism OF old Palermo. Nance
ly. Memo dat QtOd non hdbet.
The parchment Of Constantine may have
faded, but the Deodand Of Christendom trans
The insmissible sovereignty Of the PontifY- King
of Rome will continue TO shine In renewed
splendor when the rtckety dynasties of our day
shall have been gone where the woodbine twin
eth. ARKToMAsTIx.