The record-union., 1896-03-06

be held to full responsibility for it. So
in Italy, the Abyssinian disaster has re-
suited in wrecking the Ministry, which.
with the ablest man of the nation at
its head, has gone down. A new Pre-
mier, one of 1.-The right" is already at
the helm, but it is only a change of
name; the sore remains, and the dis
satisfaction of the Italian people will
continue. They will not be placated by
victories. or martial array, or mere
change of political agents.
Their patriotism will rouse up
after awhile of course, and there will
be rally to the Government side. for
the traditions of centuries are not to be
wiped out in a day or a year. A people
the result of ages of an aristocratic sys-
tenn are not to be changed into Demo-
Gratis in twinkling.
While Republican principles are
rapidly expanding in Italy, and with
each governmental difficulty secure bet
ter foothold, it will not come about
SpECQlly lIldl lIiS h1nSlOlt1 Will NC ONCl
thrown. 1t will come some day, how
ever, and we believe that it will be in
the comparatively near future; possibly
another great military failure may pre-
cipitate it before the century expires.
OF one thing we may rest assured, every
mishap of the Government makes for
the Italian Republicans. They are
steadily bringing their neighbors to
understand the distinction between
placing blame upon men instead of the
system that makes the man. When
this distinction is fully impressed upon
the minds of the masses of Italy, the
monarchy will totter TO it's fall.
Here are some reasons for Repupl-
can advances. The influence of the
French Republic and it's success, upon
Italian sentiment despite the animosity
between the two peoples. The wide
spread poverty of the working classes,
the collapse of the public treasury, the
weakness of the foreign policy, the bur-
densomeness of taxation-with scarcely
task of discharging the public debt.
The heavy cost involved in the mainte-
nance of the Italian end of the triple al
lance, the growth of socialism, nowhere
mercial stagnation, the addition re-
Gently of new duties on salt and spirits,
in order to raise means to conduct the
Government; enforced economics in the
civil service, the increase of the income
tax on stocks and bonds from 1872 per
cent. to 20 per cent, and its imposition
on gross incomes without exemption of
Government bonds; the insistence of
1.-The Right led by Di Rudini, probably
by this time made Prime Minister, that
there be remuneration of the Triple AL
lance, and reduction of the military
force and of naval expenditure. The
Brenardo Tanlongo bank scandals, i'm
plicating high officials of the Govern
ment, and coming SO close to the royal
family that by suppression of evidence
the matter was in a way hushed up, and
finally the fact that France and Russia
have never agreed to the Italian occu-
patton on the east coast of Africa,
already alluded to.
All these things tend to place the
present Government in Italy in imminent
danger, and point to the possibility Of
the historic Senate of Mobiles being
abolished, and that popular chamber of
nearly 600 delegates chosen by the peo-
pie by ballot, developing into repre-
sentative Congress, under a Govern
ment transformed from a constitutional
monarchy into the semblance, at least,
of a democratic state