The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1913-11-06
OVER SEAS.
LConcluded.l

no more, probably had better 90 not so
much on Naples; quite as long but less
wonderful in history, though more beau
tifu in natural setting, In supplement
of a previous mention, let me state that
late August finds the bay and shores no
less beautiful than then, though the dry
season is eliminating, and old Vesuvius
is still sullenly smoking, with no sign of
sickening of his fumaceous habit.
The readers mind must weary OF cas-
lie and palace mention, not to state de-
scription. Let me give picture of life
IN this city of signs as of sights. Not
far from my hotel is plain market
where groceries and fruits and vegeta-
bles are bought and sold, where meats
are brought daily fresh from slaughter,
not infrequently in the streets; where
milk for sale comes fresh from the COW
with her calf at her side and from the
goat herded over night in narrow court
while the herdsman slept on the curb
stone. At an angle in the narrow court,
under an overhead projection, day after
day sat woman Of S0years in faded gown
and white hair by dim light and with
ghin hands, mending for hire the overalls
and frocks of the market men. At sun
set-oh welcome cool of evening.-she
sat with garments folded and with hands
folded, as if awaiting in half hope, half
despair, the judgment of heaven. 1t
viii come, verify, it will coale, and as
verify 7 would sooner be peasant than
prince as peasants and princes have in
Jhe main there lived and died. Who said
hat in Pompeii, down around the spur Of
the mountain Nesuvius buried harlot
1t buried vorse-the self-devoted, rich
purple robed ibertine, who made her a
narlot. It has taken more than one hun
ared ard fifty years to disentomb the
buried city. Must we say it will take
.onger to dig the rot out of our poor, rich
human kind?
| turn my face to the west, to traverse
again {, 300 miles of blue waves, with
s.ri1e assertion. / would come to Europe
again and again, to meet the masses, say
kind vor and try to help them find
true relief from the limitations and ills
imposed by The classes, though never
a gain 10 see king, castle, or palace.
So farewell my brave herder, the
Swiss boy, who, on the great train rush
ing through Simplon tunnel and the
Lombard plain TO Milan, would sing his
weird ''yeodle", that never fails to call
me ca e out of the wild mountains
would sing it on the train in Italy, to the
disgust of that "Longbeard" who kicked
nis crook cut of the car, but could not
kick ont his song.
Farewell to the Greeks, those soldiers,
who to greet their king returning from
war, with me for the first time scaled
the mighty ruins of the Acropolis, so
limited has been their opportunity to
travel even in their own little Greece of
25, 900 square miles - soldiers whose
proves at 5 drschma (SD per month
besides food and clothes, has of late
doubled that area, but must await the
grace Of their ,orashlps of the Powers to
Know if they can keep it.
Farewell tc the Italians, who have the
happy faculty of singing day and night
heir simple hardstips into simple gracest
and joys. An hour before our ship
slipped hawser at Naples an Italian
transport bore 1000 of their soldiers
from Tripoli, whole year after the war,
nome TO HEN families, and We Witnessed
the debsrkation. Fifty or more We're
manned and had &c be carried to carts,
There, il the glari1y sun, in full uniform
and cunlbered with their baggage, the
rest lired up for full hour, while fleet
foots ana black plumed fellows came on
70 show the p0mp CT power. These sea-
soned soldiers held back at the seat of
war, tulI year at SOC. per month,
could rot quench heir thirst, nor go
nome 10 give and receive the welcome
lliss-you should see these osculant SOL
der greetings in Europe till all of the
Iread eagle aforesaid had outshone the
lg1t IF an Italian sun.
On the return voyag on the good ship
'Saxonia' | have had an exchange of
views as to aspects in Europe, with many
thinking II en-, All substantially agree
with me that all too fast for the stabil-
ity of our institutions, though by natural
force and trend, the toiling millions OF
the Old World are focking to America,
as the Ultimate hope of civil rights and
civic good; that the cure quick nostrums
of the politicians are destined to prove
pointing; that an industrial democ-
racy for safeguarding the interests Of
the masses must slowly and carefully be
ahought out and put in practice, by which
every industrious, sober, we'll meaning
man shall in perfect liberty have fair
,ot and place in the world but that labor
as well as capital must come to fully re-
spect the essentials of justice, without
which there can be no true peace.
A perfect city, a perfect country
Platos ancient dream Of an Ideal Re-
public-when the world gets down to the
simple business of building on the simple