The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-05-14

anu ScNu US ds royal commissioner an
ofiicer Of the army. There will be no
moro complaints And this universal
trust is merited. In the midst OF the gen.
eral moral disorder which besets our
country. the army remains the impregna-
Die citadel of honor and national duty. 1t
Is conscious of this itself, and justly
proud In il lives still that heroii sriris
by which Italy is made officers and
soldiers have the sentiment OF a moral
and civil mission TO fulfill. This is some
tning truly comforting, for one sees and
ieeis that Italy is always living. and that
one cannot despair Of her future"
over twenty-five thousand of these
troops were under arms In Rome within
day, and the nudber continued to in
crease until the strike was ended. Nor
was the ercy unsovernment unworthy OF
It's airs 1t promptly divided its seryic 8
i.<oo five; the provisioning of the city, the
( lighting. the super1 ision of trains and
transportation, the lodging of the troops.
and the street cleaning department
Strangely enough. this latter gave more
trouble than ali; it was indeed the only
branch for which adequate provision
looks for a man to go about with a cne-
sided brush Of twigs and a dustpan, and
sweeping little here and there. but
since the strike the ''spazzatura man
has risen in public estimation. Subsi
tutes went about raising clouds of dust
and execrations, but Rome was not her
tidy self until the old force came back
eW have been accustomed to think the
theory of street sweeping overdone here;
since seeing what two days litter can
accomplish for a city or half a million,
we have changed our minds.
Placards, in the days that followed, took
the place of newspapers, ana blossome1
out like extras on the walls. Appeals
from the striking employees, appeals
from the employers (as that you would
not quarrel with your daily bread. what
ever its quality, mandates from the Sim
daco. Alone of the journals. the Popolo
Romano pluckily got out an issue. and
an attempt was made TO mob the Office,
quickly frustrated by carbineers. 1t was
in nature for the newspaper employees to
strike-this being primarily a Topographic
cal war-but Things the most alien AMI
remote went out right and left. In
America a general strike means prob
ably a strike of allied trades. but in
Rome they do the thing more thoroughly
the BARRIERS struck. and the excavators
of the Roman Forum This was one of
the mournful humors of the situation.
Occasionally, however, there was the
purely humorous. BY this time We we
all walking, perforce-walking a good
deal for the great spectator Of hoy
week was being performed in all the
churches; but there is one being who
does not walk in Rome and that is Lord
Prince Cardinal. Thus it came to pass
that going TO witness a Cardinal Peni-
tertiary fulfill his annual rite of touch
ing heads with golden fishpole. and
confessfng his people, one met with the
surprising information that because of
the strike" the Lord Prince Cardinal
could not come, Thousands were wait
ing, the basilica blazed with lights, rang
with music. and glowed with incense
but no Lord Prince Cardinal His coach
man could not drie him with safety, and
so his Eminence was actually worse off
than tourist, for such tourist as re-
manned appeared for once abnormally
divorced from his other haIf-the cab.
Meanwhile, though we did not know It,
and counter meetings were be-
ing held. placords and counter plecards
being prepared. Socialist Deputies inter
vened nobody knew just what. or how,
or when. but sometime between the dusk
and daylight the General Strike" died
as it had been born. The first glance of
the eye out of the window told us that.
The Piazza was alive vivid. bustling from
end TO end; cabs. buses. street sweep
ers all were there and everyone was
smiling.
If We have witnessed an exhibition of
we have also beheld an eX-
hibition of organization of another kind,
whose beneficient exercise beyond doubt
in this case saved widespread suffering.
This prompt action of government could
not, obviously. be duplicated in our coun
try. If one of our free citizens-or one
of our free citizens-choose to
go out of business they choose to go.
and they go when the inspiration takes
them and the great American public be
damned" And reluctantly should we
Interfere with this right Of the individ-
lidl unlll ne mas kllieQ SOfne one, lIitn
indeed we march our troops out swiftly.
Ours is the pound of cure-Italy's tie
ounce of intervention. a year ago Italv
found herself confronted with a railroad
strike 1t can neither permit nor afford
a railroad strike. What did she do? She
promptly called the employees who were
on the eve of striking under arms, as
Italy can do and then she ordered them
on military service TO run the railroads.
Meanwhile she went TO work and arbl-
trated on her own account till she had
brought about an adjustment with the
authorities.
Unhappily she has not been able to dc
this in the printers cause. which re-
mains today defeated. The good cause
never dies" however, and every Amer
can will echo the cry with which the last
assembly ended. as the men filed out to
work 'Longlive the eight-hour day."
WHIPPING POST.
Dover, Del May 13.-Sherin Melvin.
OF Kent county. applied today the lash
OF Delaware justice to three culprits. who
had violated the laws of the state. The
ofense this time as was the case Of
those whipped last Saturday, was chicken
stealing.
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