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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1920. : : T H E D A I 1. Y B R1 T I S H . Ww H 1 C. : 000000000 TALY AS PROBLEMS. ECONOMIC STRESS CAUSED THE RECENT TROUBLES. 2 No merchant : finds success in life, \ | Just at the Present Time Political Considerations Are In the Back- ground -- Some of the History Back of the Development of Mod. ern Italy Since the Revolution of 1848. A i TALY, in the midst of another of her recurrent crises, this one perhaps the most significant of ' them all, is a good example of the eternal discontent, divine or diaboli- cal, which marks the human race. For more than a century, Italy has . o been in successive periods of trans- e mi a ition, but the periods are so sharply \ marked in contrast as to make an . illuminating commentary on the . trend of modern thought and action. ' 4 From early in the nineteenth cen- 1 k ' tury until 1870, the struggle was for éware dC awWalla political liberty. Since 1870, the 9 struggle has been for economie liberty. ? LK IS HIGH He sells the goods that won't come back, To customers that will. " IEEE To-day's "revolution" is not in th . . ; : a ia the ~--but if you have to pay a high price for an article, why a political field, except in the latter's ain es ern economic aspects. Control of indus- : try and ownership of property are . 4 the new points of issue. not get the best you can for the money » Why not get Milk All over the world, a similar development is taking place. In Italy fi the movement can be studied graphi- that is clean, safe and free from that malodorous barny cally. It can also be studied not as a remote and theoretical phenomenon, but as a fundamental and practical 2 conflict within the borders of a flavor? state immediately adjacent to France and thus near, geographical- ly, all. . . Yer its severely fodied fn --PASTEURIZED Milk never has any outside flavor. history, emerge from the first phase of modern Italian aspiration, from 1800 to 1870--names like Mazzinni, Cavour and Garibaldi. From diffete N : : 3 ent angles, these leaders worked for --It 13 the same price as ordinary Milk. Italy, either to establish her indepen- dence of foreign domination or to se- cure freedom from {irresponsible if . . potty, tyrants at home. --It is sold in sealed bottles, and only 14c. per quart. During the French revolution, French armies unseated many of the despots In control of the individual Italian states, giving promise both of greater liberty and of union for Italy. The Congress of Viena, however (that counterpart, in comparative chronology at least, of the Peace Conference at Versailles), carried { its policy of "reaction" into Italy, re- 3 dividing the country into separate states ruled by autocratic princes. 2 on? S vy oof Uprising followed uprising, now 11 successful, now defeated--all politi~ i cal in their aims. \ "I ' Celebrated Scranton Coal The Standard Anthracite ====== Sold Exclusively by CRAWFORD Foot of Queen St. Phone 9 NTT The Carbonari formed themselves, in the early twenties, into a secret society, whose aim was to unify Italy under constitutional government. Phone 845 Their methods were conspiracy, assas- sination and insurrection. | ¥ Mazzinni, a young Italian, belong- ing to a prominent family, of Genoa, and a graduate in law, showed his passion against the political sub- rdination of his people, by wearing "mn | ordina SEAL rg oie inet | their main policy of conspiracy and St | assassination, founded a new society. | "Young Italy." Men dedicated to [=] liberate their country from foreign ) and domestic tyrants and to establish | 2 united Italian republic on a demo- TO ONE AND A LL WE WISH el tion of 1848 was follow- , ed by another period of reaction. Then/came Cavour, Prime Minister of Sardinia, an exponent of Parlia- ° | mentary Government under a monarchy. "Parliamentary ' government," he | sald, "like other governments has its . | inconveniences, it is better than all | the others. I may get impatient at : . | certain oppositions and repel them d | vigoroysly; and then, on thinking it al | over, I congratulate myself on 'these | oppositions because they force me to explain my ideas better and to re- double my efforts to win over pub- lic opinion. Believe me, the worst of | Chambers is still preferable to the a | most brilliant of ante-Chambers." p After a perpetual see-saw of suc- \ { ors and failure, a united, politically | democratic Italy did arrive in 1861, | confirmed more fully in 1870, when | the Romans decided to join, thus This is not a mere idle wish. It is the sincere desire of our [fff| the Romans decided : : : It is "a representative monarchical hearts, in short, our Season's Message. : Spa ir Dey hug, Senate aud The year 1870, however, marking constitutional government for a .com- . . letely united Italy, did not bring the The mad pace and nervous strain of war did not stop on re ea aly: 218 Bot bFing the . . | phasis began to shift to economic Armistice Day. It continued with lessened momentum for two years |ll}| problems. That these are still un- raged | solved is shown by a recent opinion | that the position of the industrial longer. \ | worker in Italy is worse than. that | of any other western nation, except . | Spain. It 1s also shown by recent . ; and ne - . . events, » » The turn has now come--re-action has set in. It has been Ax for politics, Prof. Schapiro says, "Italian politics since 1870 are : : +1 1 - {& sorry tale of parliamentary in- marked by lower prices in some commodities and a shrinkage of em Fae? ie Ot cletlamantary io, corruption." ployment. Extravagance has been checked. a 190% there was an insurrection : of workingmen in Milan. The streets were barricaded and fighting oc- ; curred. Although it means hardship to many, it is a wholesome pro- In 1903, Glolitti became Premier. It is this same man, now nearly 80 " : : years old, who is Premier to-day. As cess. Normal levels are coming again. : oe Tone Tle a Urepiet to-day As the workingmen was conciliatory, and, as at present so far, he declared : the Government would remain neu- Do not lose heart. The present may be dark, but the future is er In Be Ta mould, rematn het 3 . . . . . and labor. . I bright. Prosperity will return. Canadian resources and Canadian These tactics did not save him ' from tronble twenty years ago, nor : > 3 : to-day. ere was an epidemic of Ingenuity are equal to it. strikes from 1903 to 1905, including ' a general strike tying up the whole + country. ' In 1912, the basis of the franchise Hence we repeat: was widely extended, but the serious general strike in 1914 showed once more that the trouble was economic A MERRY, MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY AND [lll aon: tat tere PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR *' _ aackbelm, Christiasia.. Berliy and IH he lowest death rates among the duropean cities, - -------- {| 1 on: | "That man is always talking about. in Je sylvian glades, rustic views, an earth He. : : ; . Hl! 1y paradise, golden gardens and bal- % my breezes," said the Thin Man. "Is | . hea $2 : Bay and Wellington Streets mm we. Kingston, Ont. HH) Naw, replied the Fat Man. | : "He's areal estate man from Califor- | - nia, and he can't get out of the ha- bit" *