The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1900-08-10
THE KING AND the ANARCHIST.


this plethora seems more pronounced
than elsewhere. At every hotel
there are four servants where only
one is required.
At Genoa, there were lined up in
the hallway to speed my parting a
facchino, four porters, three cham
bermaids and a boots, while taper
ing off into the street were various
able bodied loungers, several old
women and full small dozen brig
ands. Each and every one in the
line expected-aye, more, de-
manded-legal tender.
A small handful Of coppers was
then required for the mob to struggle
for in the street, so escape could be
made under cover OF the smoke.
At all churches old women open
the doors and oilicious loungers Of
fer information that is not desired
but you must tip them.
THE BREAD RIoTs OF ITALY.
To refuse to give to the beggars is
to invite insult and insolence. Des-
peration is written on the dark faces
that beseech you, and when you re-
member how, not many moons ago,
this superfluous Italian populace ex-
ploded in one wild yel and made a
dash for the oakeshop windows, you
d. not wonder.
Naples, Rome, Florence and Milan
were placed under martial law, and
at Milan alone, in the month Of May
1898, 200 people were shot by sol
diers in the streets during my briel
stay. | saw volleys fired into
crowds. The living would scurry
away like frightened rabbits, into
alleys, houses, side streets, cellars
But there on the sidewalks lay thu
fallen and tunibled dead-men
women and children. In less thar
five minutes time wagons, with sol
diers, dash up, the dead and dyinl
were thrown like cordwood into tn,
springless tumbrils, and with
J cracking OF Whips the horses an,
wagons dashed away. Soma of th'
soldiers remained, and with tos'
and buckets and brcoms every yes
tige of blood was washed away.
The newspapers made no reports
some OF them denied that volley
had been fired.
And now the king Of Italy has
gone by quick and painless route
&rAhe beyond. He was only {
-not a great man, neither 1
man. Only a vain, ignorant
sh man-with transient moods
wanting TO do right-whose fee
been caught in a mesh o
Il Ikrong, and he had not the power t
let away. To kill him was absurd
Tor the wrong for which he stooc
still exists. 1t is the institution and
policy, not the man. More volley.
will be fired into the crowd that cry
for bread. The death carts will
dump their victims into coflinles'
graves.
No TEARS For THE DEAD KING.
shed tears for the homeless, tn.
harassed, the oppressed--for tn,
women who hold hungry babes L
famished breasts-for the ignoran
and brutal who wrench at thei
bonds, and who by violence hope t
achieve freedom.
For the dead king waste no pity
He himself caused thousands to bt
killed. He lived by the sword and
died by the bullet. What else coulc
he expect? He invited his fate
lie was only slave at the best, and
death set hun free.
Italy has less than one-half the
population of the United States, yel
she has a navy that out-matche:
ours. She maintains an army ol
$50, 900 men in time Of peace, and
there is one priest for every sixty
persons. She might maintain the
priests, but she cannot possibly ad-
vance and carry the army that rides
upon her back. Italy is the extreme
type of all European countries, ex-
Icept Switzerland, Holland, Norway
and Sweden. These last stand fol
intelligence, sobriety, beauty and
worth. Italy is rotting at the core.
The moss is at work pulling down
the palaces that Caprino planned !;
the grass springs from between the
paving stones where Michael Angelo
trod. and the noble Romans and
Icourtly Florentines, like the crawl
ing lizards, only bask in the sun in
winter and move but to keep in the
shade in sumIer.
Conscription kills ambition. Men
will not work when the government
demands half their wages, as Italy
does. Only two careers worth men,
tioninO are Or,pn IN aspirinU vOtrtl