The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-06-27

having the same object, but using
 methods in accordance with the papa
 precepts. The two sets of leagues com
 pete bitterly with each other. In com
 mune in the province of Rovigo th
 small landed proprietors belonging t'
 the socialist league have determined tt
 raise a loan on mortgages on their labe
 in order to support the peasant pro
 letariat in its resistance to the farmers
 and the owners Of large estates.
 Formerly the system of farming or
 shares was generally In this district
 which means that labor was not very
 intense in 1t. The farm system, how I ever. Is becoming prevalent, and as the
 farmers compete sharply with one an
 other, it has come about that in or
 der to diminish expenses they have
 adopted the method of intensive culture
 and have arranged the wages of rural
 workmen according to the seasons and
 the nature of the work. In the rice
 fields the wage-earner must, moreover,
 have learned his business by long ex-
 perience, and he is paid accordingly. IT.
 is against the inequality of wages con-
 sequent upon the new system of agri-
 culture that the strikers complain
 They want to go back to the equality of the old scale of wages. The women are the most excited, and some of them were arrested by the police last week.
 The movement for the increase of wages will bring about an increase of the price of the articles produced. The large land owners will be obliged to break away from the old systems of cultivation, which, though convenient, are anticipated, and to look for com pensation in the application of the methods of agricultural chemistry. Agriculture will become scientific and will increase still more the inequality of wages.
 If the evil is great in certain districts of Lombardy, it exceeds all measure in Apulia. Misery is extreme there among all classes of the poulation, both ten ants and laborers, on account of the continued drouth. The province of Foggia Is, moreover, troubled by mys tical, socialstic agitation, which wor- ries the authorities. It is led by fanatic, sort of dervish, shoemaker by trade. The agitator passes through country districts and towns, mounted 
 or four comrades. He announces new division of land and a return of justice and equality as being near at hand Everywhere he and his escort are re- ceived with respect and honor, they are believed in and are entertained hos pitably. They leaves traces of their passage in the formation of groups of persons devoted to this agrarian Jac- querie, whose business it is to spread 1t. The instigator of the movement prefers to wander about the province of Foggia; he declares that he is sent by God to bear the good tidings and to announce the end of all misery and justice for all. Woe to all who do not believe in his words and to the land owners who may resist the will of God when the hour of justice shall have 
 The Island of Sardinia is in no better than the north and the south east of the peninsula. The government presses upon the agricultural classes by spoliating system of taxes that is made worse by forced sales The sales for non-payment of taxes are increas- ng. A commune of 2,500 inhabitants Is old of where 800 houses are offered at ,uction in another of 2,000 inhabitants he treasury orders the sale of S6 build | ngs and of 4S5 lots of land More than 200 families are stripped of evrything | ,n account of a few francs of taxes hat have not been paid or are in ar ears.
 The lack of capital and of credit rem lers still worse the situation created by | he demands of the treasury. Tn order 0 pay the taxes, to cultivate their | ands, proprletors and tenants, can ob sin money only from usurers, and hese demand GO per cent interest and ven more. Between the tax gatherer nd the usurer the farmer can only ave insufficient maintenance for him elf and his family If a drouth comes, r an excess of rain, if for any reason
 crop falls, the poor people are driven ito bankruptcy by the money lender r by the treasury.
 Hitherto Sardinia has had no revolu- onary agitations, but the island has lague of bandits People who have othing left take refuge in the moun- ains and come down from them. arm I, to hold up travellers and to plunder 1e mails. Many plans have been form l to put an end to this state of af- ,irs, but so far nothing has been done. Italian letter in New York Sun,