Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1912-01-26


at state ceremouie- as ON ,he oo,a .
sion oi the present p0rcs Jubilee. .
.auf SCI 10 conjunction with ;lc Pa .
s,ire Guards IN keepiue order within .
81 Peters These sen1armys are all .
lam and strong men. every one hains .
over siy feet; and. In their 1cdrSkiHs .
nd hlue uniform timed proiuseN
with silver lace. thew are second orlv
"a the Noble Guards In splendor cf
c1lipdment and certainly foremost OF
all In their superb PHYSIQUE and 2c"-
haps In training, for many are oil
soldiers who have served their f'lll
term OF service In tho crack coros
OF the Italian army. the Royal Car
bineers.
To the above mentioned troops
who form the actual garrison OF the
vatican, may be- added the corps Of
firemen. who are oganized on a mill
tary footin2. wear helmets and are
dressed IN a dark blue uniform.
The grand total OF an ranks aggrc-
gates about 400 men. exclusive of The
FIRE brigade and. as far as equipment
hc1-ine and drill go. they are uncN
.,I,d boy any corps In any service tI|
which they correspond. Not have the
lvo moro ancient corps failed 10 show
That. II holiday soldiers at present.
how were once a hard-fightirg force
me Noble Guards were slain almCI
go man in the defense of Rome
asainst the motley army OF the coz
stableh OF Bourbon: and the Swiss
Guards who shared their fate, stood
"a their master again m lS49 against
IT, insurgent mob OF Rome as brave
~ S their forefathers had stood b.
Louis XVI, in 1872, and only retired
when they were commanded to do 50
D, the Pope himself.
The presence of these superb
ho schold troops In the vast pile 30
tho greatest in Chrstendom also
points a moral and tells a tale. They
arc skeletons OF pre-eXisting corps
shadows. &C &c speak, Of their form
20, selves. like a temporal power ot
which had II sprung from pure
sources, had IL even been wisely eX-
'urc,sel in a worldly sense, could ne,
,bu' Jar at times with the spiritual
mission of the dual potentatc, anu
inally become incompatible with the
true national aspirations OF the itai-
Tan nation Bat how much more lar
ring. how much more incompatil lc,
nom Impossible at last, had the GO.
existence Of the two powers become
when the clarion call to freedom re-
sounded the kncll OF papel misrule
and intolerance Instances of this
hJncful influence OF secular misgoy-
eminent are too numerous TO quote.
but the results afford positive proof
that nowhere had the decline in popu-
!ation and wealth been more marked
=. AN in the environs OF Rome and in
fHomagna. and that In few reginos OF
Italy outside tie Calabrias, Sicily
ana Basilioate, Is illteracy still So
prevalent even after forty years OF
free schools
Thus, on the first count OF the IN
dictment, We may quote as an ~.
ample Ferrora whose population,
which during the sixteenth century
amounte dto lO0.oo0 soils. had. ar-
coriing 10 Gregorovius, declined -
less than $4,000 since its annexation
20 the papal domiuions In l-9N.
Crimes OF violence were committed
by high-horn criminals with impn.
ity and hv the loW-horu with littl"
risk Of punishment from the law o.
they took 10 the bush, bccCming us-
cell ii hosco and swelling the ranks
Of the hrieand bands who dwelt mn.
der the greenwood tree llitoracy
too. went hand in hand with crime
sQralor completing the sorry picture
which the so-called patrimony OF ST.
Peter preserved for centuries.
Although the material advance
within the last forty wears has been
very great, and population. manufac;-
ures and industries of all kinds have
increased and many modern COM
forts been introduced. and. f'naliy.
ORGANIZED brigandage has been sun
pressed, the moral decadence OF
people brutali7ed and corrupted by
the unceasing tyranny and misgo,-
eminent of many centuries has 70,
been succeeded by a correspondent
moral revival and eGucat onal dcvcl.
opment. Crimes 81 violence are a..
most ds frequent as heretofore, tho
slight decrease in the long tale o:
assassinations being probably due to
the extripatiOn OF the baudetti.
while. according to the native press
fraudulent practices have actually
increased. llliteracy is still so pre-
valent among the Romans that nearly
20 per cent OF the population are I'M
able 10 read or write These discom-
forting statistics which appeared IN
the returns Of the census taken IN
l9O1-continue to be substantially
Unchanged, and IN their ominous fls-
ures indicate the durable and pro
found natuIc OF the degradation
wrought mainly by paral misgovern-
ment.