Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1912-04-03
GIUSEPPE GARIBALDI.
BY KATHERINE MEYER.

In the discovery and colonization
OF every country and in the formation
of every government there must be
pioneers. No history better illustrates
the truth Of this statement than that
of America.
It needed Columbus to discover a
Western world. The Pilgrim
Fathers. sailing an unknown sea to a
new and strange land, were needed to
colonize our country, and it needed a
Washington, an Adams, and a Jeffer-
son to form a new and untried ex-
pertinent in government, which was
later to be secured and bound together
by mighty Lincoln.
Behind the government of every
nation is master intellect
Germany had It's Bismark and France
its Richelieu. So, in Italy we find
a man endowed with this master
mind, Giuseppe Garibaldi, a Pioneer.
The Roman Empire, which COM
prised Italy and most of the land
bordering on the Mediterranean, was
in some respects an ideal government.
This great nation had its center in
Rome where the whole Empire was
ruled by the Emperor and Senate.
The people were banded together
under one head and were unified.
With the downfall of Rome the
German tribes of Europe came in and
the country suffered great change
1t was divided into kingdoms or
provinces ruled over by foreign
princes and chiefs. and the people
were not united. This marks the
coming of disunity into Italy and it
was in this condition when the French
Revolution, the influence of which
was felt throughout all Europe, caused
another change.
In all of the provinces there was a
desire for National Unity and
recognition as a constitutional power,
which Dante, Savona1ola and the
Popes had longed for.
we'll as this new awakening. tended
toward a country. the home of a single
people with common government.
The revolutions in the different
provinces seemed to establish
Absolutism more irmly than ever,
while with the coming of Napoleon
in his campaigns against Austria the
existing political system was swept
away, Republics were formed and
Absolutism gave way to Republi-
canism.
When Napoleon came to the
Imperial Throne states we're formed
under different leaders, Sicily alone
escaping the influence Of the French.
Throughout the whole country there
was a great feeling of unrest and the
rights which the Revolutionists had
declared fundamental to man were
desired. Probably it was we'll for
Italy that these rights were not
granted because the people would. no
doubt. have misused them. However,
this refusal by the powers only
sharpened the desire for them and
make the lower classes all the more
revolutionary.
Wishing to put stop to this
feeling the congress of Vienna was
called. It was Of no benefit to Italy
because it sought to restore the
sovereigns to their rigtful thrones and
to bind them to no qualifications for
Office. This was not what was needed.
new government must be formed
with its principles comprising the
needs of the country. It was at this
time, aided by Ma zzini and Cavour,
that Garibaldi began his great work
to liberate Italy.
Few men have been judged more
differently by different minds than
General Garipaldi. Enthusiastic
hero worshippers clothe him with the
virtue of perfection, his opponents
paint him in the vilest colors.
Scarcely an event occurs in the whole
OF Carl bal dis career, a career In
which one event succeeds another in
startling rapidity. which is not keen
ly contested by friend or foe. Eye
witnesses Of the same scene will give
exactly opposite accounts according to
the party feeling which influences
them.
Giuseppe Caribaldi was the son Of
humble parents at Nice, born in 1907.
The father was a s9a-faring man as
his father had been before him and
Giuseppe followed in this occupation,
AS was necessary for a future
celebrity young GaribaIdi was not
like other boys He kept more or
less away from his comrades and spent
his time in wandering over the hills
around his home. He loved solitude