The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-05-31

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"a nxAt ksux 2saassk - ecufss.sAsy
sesslnx afser . se~ses a. e~sssAng rasssarv
sasc@ses sAssh proved 70 ~ vo-sa that
= Pecpse retain gco1 1eal es thexr
eac1enf vasof- II = n the ssAsza eosony.
.sea effeeuAsed ~ fsvSrses to the fsAl-
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psssaoee- TIE association hcwev<r dcee
ncS vos-y tesesf ~ 80 scrrpuscus a.
nssaaa 30 fats. The great shsax u -
kes ~ s1osr&srns. ane rscxaruecee &C.
ecF77<sccx seaed 20 The hxoev0s<ns crank
In<rssare tie assocsassca has esxer, Ifasv
IA AnyssansA IN bard AL has cousMuzt-
0se0 wssA tie scrzsxa c.sce vita view
% seaehsng ctracnsss shefr business
AFTER cruel corcscs. with essastrc<ss
r~s1itA writes the secretary. hy eosa-
rsAad ef the seusca. .-shs suc hosss stana
~ bay. but though sta aeaaas. each zoe
pecsesses ais willingness % came 70
sorms.-
TIE assocsatson therefore p.c,uses THAI
kGxhAd ehSu Step In ard settle shfnrx
AcsorclE8 70 the Association. Aayxs.rsa
has historical esasns uron this country.
bat. ss fa- ~ Aissory sessa tbs onfy eaaasa
ARISES from the fscs that thirty odd ~ears
aga. British ARMY invaded Ahrs-
sinia. save the king and people . sound
oraoaane. and drove thu king 10 suscscA 20
that Il b evsaens that the claim, a. any
rate. = thoroughly and chsraeesr ssssca,sy
British.
Lord Salisbury has given the association
mere1y formal arknovledgnecf Of the re-
ce.pf o. their advice II - clear that he
doss not hankar after the ONCE Of media
tor IN this particular dispute. although
Italy would probably b glad snonsh 10
have him. The key to the sssrafion 10
really IN King Mensiek's a9hfIng hsnd.
and hs2 81 - Ma
to give II up for . thing which he ssces
not understand. Offered by people when
he has every reason 70 cissrust- As Mr..
Grover Cleveland seems to have become q
sort Of honory member Of the Ineernafton-
a Arbitration and Feacs Association. he
nigh: Ike TO try his powers Of persuasion
upon thu douGhty A5ysknian warrior and
king
A San reporter who happened TO ~ IN
Naples ~ the seginnsng OF the week w.t.
messed some remarkable scenes In connec-
ton with tho homecoming Of the ssck ana
wounded soldiers ana eoionists from south
Africa Some soadiers were IN . fr.ghtful
state. Several were stark mad, but that
10 part Of the ordinary penalties Of var,
whether successful or unsuccessful Ths
coaoaisfs furnished the strangese and most
pitiful sight Men. women and children.
all were In rAxs. SORE. lean ard hungry.
WY 0iaAsSO1at AxUk1 tu0 Pc0{Y4D WHO. wv
or three years ago. used 70 embark wes&t
AZ Naples en- route for the Promised Land
near the shores Of the RED sea. These
people deceived by the glowing stories
published IN the oflcial newspapers, sold
their little properties at home and sailed
away biitheiy. confident that they would
return before many yearA fat and rich.
A events have proved, they found not an
Eden but . verftabls inferno Of rocks
and stones. savage beasts and savage msa
They to.led night and day in the vain HOPE
OF making the wilderness blossom. but not
one among them. 50 they say. ever sue
ceeded In raising what. N the poorest dis
trics OF Italy. would be called . crop; ana
what little they induced the land to Yield
was as often as not destroyed BY droGsh
or flood. Worst of all. they were unable
TO escape from what was veritah,e bond
age. because they had no money left to
pay the cost OF the ho;neward voyage, and
tons from Rome. absolutely refused to
help them leave the colony.
Eut with the Italian military reverses
everything was changed. The cosonists
fiocked to the coast as the victorious Abys-
sinians drove the troops before them. and
the distressed civilians became such a
source Of embarrassment 70 the generals
that the lesser OF two evils was accepted.
and the ruined coloniSts we're sent home
in the troop ships. Most OF them came
from the northern provinces OF Italy,
whittier. being utterly penniless. they have
been sent from Naples at government ex-
pense- Each man and woman heneeforth