Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1901-06-21
HIS CAREER CLOSED.
exit Of Baron Fava, Italian Ana-
bassador at Washington.
rhe Record He Made I'm This Coun-
try II Not an Envfable One-UD-
holder of the vicious Pa
drOne System.

of all nations now located in
our national capitol, and all of
the leading statesmen of our republic,
are publicly expressing regret that
Baron de Fava, the Italian ambas-
sador. has been recalled from the en-
bassy here and required to return to
Rome.
How much sincerity there is in all
this ado about Fava may be understood
when facts take place of fancies, and
naked truth is placed upon the pedes-
tai usurped by fiction.
In the first place be it known that
the Italian government fosters the
immigration of the paupers of Italy
to this land of the free. Because of
Italian official promotion of the
padrone system, or because OF official
connivance in encouragement OF that
system, tens of thousands OF Italian
paupers have been annually sent to
America, until the total amounts to
hundreds of thousands. This country
protects itself against invasions from
China; bars out the honest industri-
GUS slaves of the six companies; and
encourages the slaves from Italy who
come here to toll for memorable mas
tiers.
Although it is announced that Baron
FaNa has been recalled at his own re-
quest, It is known that his going has
been accelerated by the fact that for
many years past there has been some
complaint on the part of officers of
the United States government that
Baron Fava was not inclined to do
anything toward breaking up the
padrone system among the Italians in
this country. On the contrary, the
immigrant officers in New York and
elsewhere have complained repeatedly
that whenever they have attempted to
break up the padrone system the
principal offenders invariably have ap-
pealed to the italian ambassador, and
on all occasions Baron Fava has used
his official position to protect these
traffickers in the flesh and blood of
Italian paupers. Moreover, it has long
been known to well-informed news
gather ers in this city that reports of
treasury officials demonstrated that
the Italian government favored the
padrone system, and that Baron Fava
encouraged the immigration of num-
berless men, women and children who
served in slavery in our cities for
certain number of years after their
arrival in this "land of the free"
These conditions became so notori-
Gus at last that it was impossible to
longer cover the facts, so that italian
societies in New York and other large
cities took up the matter and pre-
sented it in such strong light be-
fore the new king of Italy that the
recall of Baron Fava was inevitable.
Whether the villainous padrone sys-
tenn is now to be broken up remains
to be seen.
It seems pity that Celso Caesar
Moreno could not have lived few
months longer, in order that he might
have witnessed the departure of Baron
Fava-as a fruition of the work of
poor old Moreno against the enslave-
ment of his Italian countrymen. He
had been rich and powerful, but he
died here last March in humble cir
cumstances. He was or had been con-
cerned in many controversies, one of
which was over the management of the
Italian exhibits at the Philadelphia
exposition. This quarrel, which In
volved Secchi de Casali, of New York,
was waged for many years, long be-
yond the time when the public ceased
to have any interest in it one way or
the other. He was very vigorous for
many years in trying to break up the