The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-04-24
JEW IS APPOINTED
PREMIER OF ITALY
First Continental Power Of the
First Class to Honor
Hebrew Race.
BY CLEMENT j. BARRETT.
al Cable to The Tribune.

Special Cable to The Tribune.
ROME. April 23.-To Italy belongs the
credit OF being the first continental pow
err OF the first class TO appoint Jew
as It's prime minister. Outside of Ben
jamin d. Israeli, Lord Beaconsfcld,
prime minister OF England. Signor Luigi
Luzzatti. the new ItaliaI; premier, is the
first Hebrew into whose hands has been
placed the guidance Of q great nation
Curiously enough, the eN-premier, Ba :
ron Sonnino. was also Jew emigrant
from Lcghorn. but his mother was an
English Protestant, and he himself was
not brought up In the Jewish falth,
About the origin of Signor IuZzattl. there
is no positive doubt. lie comes OF a IA
nous family that has given Jewish rab-
bis. physicians poets and scholars TO
Italy for generations. and he has never
been other than proud OF his membership
OF the Jewish re;, race Last year @hen tha en aH
Luigi Luzzatu," he wrote TO the Jour :,
nal declaring that, although he had freed
himself from dogmatic religion, he IN
variably turned back to the Jews wncn
he was taunted with being one of them.
in contradistincton to those Jews VINO
sneaSed away like towards whenever theS
were described as Jews. Signor LuZzat l.
It's career has been consistently prll-
liant He first entered parliament forty
wears ago, and in 1891 received his first
cabinet appointment as minister OF inc
treasury he mas also won hiEu acaue'n'O
distinction In the fields of political econ
omy and law. 1t is significant testimony
to the position of the Jews In Italy that,
while SIgnor Luzzatt is premier the
mayor of Rome. Signor Ernesto Nathan,
Is a member OF the Jewish faith
Serious Religious Riots.
Serious religious riots occurred in the
city of Andria, In the province of Apulia.
In consequence OF the non n-accomplishment
of The traditional Good Friday miracle
al the cathedral When public prayers
had been prolonged for two nights with
out avail, the feeling grew terribly In
tense and as the iiasco was supposed 10
be due to the ridiculc cast upon the al
fair by local Socialists, sacred process
sions Of cXpiatlon In the public streets
were ordered. The moro fanatlcaI, attor
beating and stoning their adversalles
mcrcilessly,. ranged themselves In oppo-
site camps and poured voileys OF ieNolvcI
shots into each other. Many were
wounded, and numerous arrests havg
been made. The troops, who were caileu
out, had TO charge down the streets re- re-
peatcdly with fixed haYoncts before 'he
fanatics could be dispersed.
Outrage Upon Americans.
American Consul Wood at Venice is
determined 10 put a stop 10 tho attempt
cd neccnE Of his fellow CounlrNmen 10y
a certain class OF merchants after the
style attempted on n young American
couple recently.
Thc wife bought necklace for 50
francs. which she asserts. she paid for
with three English sovcreigns and
o-franc piece Other goods were shown
10 her and pressed upon her. which
she. however did moi wish to purchase:
Later the salesman called at tho hotel
and asked her if she would not take
the goods that had been shown her.
Again she refused Then lie said that
slie had not paid for tho necklace, Tho
woman was amazed. and told him she
had made payment on purchase.
The salesman found OUT that she and
her husband were leaving NeEice that
evening What was the astonishmcnt OF
the Americans to find that the sales
man with some other young men, were
AT tho station. where again payment for
the necklace was demanded, and angry
words used A crowd gathered and iinaliy
n policeman came up and arrested the
Americans. Meantime Mr.. Wood. the
American consul. was communicated
with and appeared in court in the
morning when the Americans were at
once set free the consul undertaking To
answer for them. The magistrate was
given the necklace in the meantime, so
that ne might probe the affair 70 the
bottom. The moral 10 he drawn from IT
is this that Americans would do we'll 10
demand a written receipt in every case
when they pay for goods.