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Show NON.SKNMK. The vendetta business is running into nonsense. A dispatch from i'alertno,, Italy, says: "Throughout Italy Americans Amer-icans aro afraid to acknowledge their identity." Kiddlosueks! When the Italian people rise to retaliate upon Americans for the lynching in New Orleans they will be made of sterner si nil than they are in tho present generation or rather degeneration. Poverty never prevailed to so alarming an extent on the peninsula as it does today to-day and it was due to this cause that Cuisi'i was forced to retirement. The puoplo could not bear t lie burden of taxation required to maintain !h ftovernment ami so, immediately after the most overwhelming popular ondorsoitient at the polls, the cabinet of King III miikkt hail to resign. To expect that in this condition of aiTairs, the Americans who are tho means of relieving a part of the distress by the lavish expenditure of money during their continental tour, would bo driven out of the country, is mistaking the situation. No; the Italian government may mako a pretense at a vigorous foreign policy by demanding indemnity for the New Orleans victims, knowing full well that tho United Stales bavo no right to grant it, and that the state of Louisiana would laugh tho proposition to scorn. There is noanalogy between this affair and that of the Chiueso laborers massacred a few years sinco in Wyom ing, when this country paid a money indemnity to China. The Chinese, whom a mob had set upon and pounded to death, had committed no crimes and were harmless and inoffensive to the last degree. Furthermore, tho scene of that outrage occurred in a territory over which tho Washington government had supreme and permanent control uud was responsible for the preservation of law aud order. The New Orleans lynching, if dealt with lawfully at all, can only bo dealt with by the local authorities. Several times when international questions have arisen between the United Stales and other governments, and where it seemed there was more or less justice on tno side of the latter, any disposition to make redress from Washington has been futile, because of a want of cooperation co-operation of the local authorities. This will certainly be experienced in the present instance, and although the Italian government may protest that it docs not understand and cannot see the justice of our system of duplicate government, gov-ernment, the result will be the same. Let us be done with the nousense. |