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Show ou- THE MOTE IN OUR OWN EYE. Recalling the Molly Maguiro con epiracy, which was cr shed out only by tho most onegretlc efforts of the Ponnsjlvanla authorities about thirty-five thirty-five years ago, and moro recent evidence evi-dence of the existence of organizations organiza-tions which do not hesitate at most serious crimes to accomplish unlawful unlaw-ful alms, Americans would not be Ju3tIflod In hastily assuming that the existence in Italy of tho criminal society so-ciety known as the Camorra is a sign of national degeneracy. Tho trial which has beon for months going on at Vlterbo Is, on the contrary, evidence evi-dence of all tho world that Italy is fuih capablo of sloughing off the ulcer ul-cer which for ages had been eating In- to the vitals, weakening Its national nation-al stamina, and making Ub lower and oven middle classes in extensive portions por-tions of tho peninsula either the victims vic-tims or tie accomplices of murderers and tbiees. . It may be said with confidence that Northern and Central Italy have al ready been freed from tho upas nightmare night-mare of oiganlzed crime In connec lion with the capture of Musolino, one of the worst of the Camorrlsts, who was anested between the Marches and Uinbrla. In Central Italy ; a Ro man correspondent writes: u mty y ears before a Musolino had taken refuge re-fuge in the region whero he was caught, he would not have beon arrested, ar-rested, as brigandage was an endemic disease there, and ho would have found tho same assistance as in his native Calabria. Today, after half a century ot moral resurrection, Umbrla and the Marches are among the most civilized, progresBlvo and goodhcarted regions of Italy, and did not, therefore, there-fore, provide Musolino with the atmosphere at-mosphere necessary for his protection protec-tion " The same correspondent says that "the hope is ontortalncd that this trial will be the beginning of a serious work of purification which may have a salutary cfTect In Naples and the scuth. whore the peorle wit their quick Intelligence, wonderful Intuition In-tuition and ca3V adaptability, could accomplish prodI?Ios If theso qualities quali-ties were well directed." We repeat that It Is a very great mistake to assurao that Italy Is degenerate de-generate On the contrary, a new and greater Italy Is emerging from the trials and struggles of the hundred H years that havo passed; a twentieth. H century Italy, whose sons are proud H of their heritage of Roman and med- H Jaeval glory' and achievement, and H who mean that their country shall H hold a place of honor In the front IH rank of modem civilization. Henry" H Mann in Columbian. H |