Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-07-06
NATIONAL HOLIDAY IN ITALY IN
MEMORY OF PATRIOT HoNoRED
BY HIS couNTRYMEN WORLD
OVER.
ROYAL FAMILY SEES
REVIEW OF TROOPS
GARlBALDi WAS THE CENTRAL
FIGURE FOR ITALIAN INDIE
PENDENcE-HAD WONDERFUL
CAREER.
Italy Remembers earibaIdi.

Italy Remembers Garbaldi.
Rome, July AIN every part Of the
Italian kingdom today and wherever
an Italian man-of-war floats the one
hundredth anniversary of the birth 4
Of Giuseppe Garibaldi, the great liber-
ator,, Is being celebrated. Patriotism
and love Of country formed the key
note Of the celebrations.
BY act Of the senate the day was
set apart as national holiday. At a
given hour this morning salutes of
100 guns were fred at all the Italian
military and naval stations. The city
Of Rome was profusely decorated in
honor Of the occasion. Pictures of
Garibaldi and Of King Victor Emman-
uel, Mezzini and other patriots who
were instrumental in bringing about
Italian independence and unity were
to be seen at every turn.
The king and other members of the
royal family attended great review
Of the troops, which was one Of the
features of the celebration Under
the auspices of patriotic and other or.
CARNATIONS exercises in memory Of
Garibaldi were held in all parts OF
Rome. Thousands of pilgrims visit
cd the Island OF Caprera and deposited
handsome floral offerings at the Carl
baldi tomb.
Career a Stormy Ono.
Giuseppe Garibaldi, the patriot
whom all Italy unites in. honoring to-
day, was the central figure in the
| fight for Italian independence. AL
| ternately sailor and soldier for half
a century when he was not fugitive
or an exile, the career of Garfbaldi
was crowded with adventures of the
most exciting and desperate character
Yet he lived to die In his bed at the
age of .75.
He began life in his fathers occu-
patton of mariner and his second
voyage having taken him to Rome, he
saw and heard there the things that
started him on his revolutionary car
eer, which early in 1884 led to his exile
| from Italy. He had imbibed from
Mazzi, the leader Of the young Italy
party of republicans, the spirit of revo-
luton, and in his exile. while follow
ing the business of a mariner, he took
part in the effort of independence of
the republic of Uruguay. He suffered
great hardships and was wounded
| severely during this adventure but
performed some remarkable exploits
From South America, in 1S4S, he
sailed for Italy, and offered the ser.
vices of himself and legion which
he had organized to Charles Albert
who was at war with Austria. The
king received him coldly, but Garibald
after the defeat of Charles, at the
head of some resolute republicans, con.
tInued the resistance to the Austrians
until dispersed by overwhelming mum
bers.
i That year Garibaldi offered his ser
vices to the pope, who did not accept
them, and who a few months later was
forced to flee from Rome. Garibald
next Joined the revolutionists In 1915
and was placed In command Of Rome
by the new republican government
He opposed at hrst successfully thu
efforts Of the French to restore the
pope and Of the Neapolitans to entel
Rome. But the French, greatly rein
, forced, entered the holy city in due
time and the republican triumvirate
headed by Mazzini, was driven c,t1
Garibaldi, however, kept uE the fight
and with two 1egions avoided the at
|
having surrendered or been dispersed
he fed with few companions, ant
was taken and banished.
Game to America.
This time he resolved to go tt
!. America, and he landed in 1850 il
New York, where he earned living
first by making candles and then a
his old occupation Of mariner.
He returned to Nice after a few
r years and lived quietly, but at the be
J. ginning of the italian war with Aus
! tria in 1859 he was ready to compl
: with the request of the Sandman COY
y eminent, and organized the corps Gel.
!, brated as the Hunters of the Alps,
S with which he rendered important sci
n vice to Victor Emmanuel and tn
s French. When the instruction i
Naples broke out Garibaldi supporte
,, it. In the following year he took Sicil
u and became dictator. In Septembe
9 he entered Naples, and Victor Emmat
uel followed him on October Is, 1876
q with the Sardinians. Garibadi ha
: declared himself dictator in the nam
IS of Victor Emmanuel, king of Italy, an
relinquished the title when the Sicilie
d were united to the Italian crown.
= He did not abandon, however, til
=. purpose to march on Rome, and viii
= the new kingdom of Italy, despite tt
:. protests of the pope was being reco
nized by European states, Garibal
went about his preparations to captul
the holp city. But the royal COVER
ment denounced his conduct and Sc
ae troops against him, and he was defea
20 ed and captured Thereafter for son
Is years his history is the record of b
"a attempts to capture Rome and the d
1s feat of this plan by the royal COVER