Salt Lake Tribune | 1910-03-13 | Page 33 | Landmarks in Rome Are Being Destroyed

LANDMARKS IN ME A8E BEING DESTROYED Those of Historic Value to the Old World Arc Ruthlessly Torn Down. BY CLEMENT .T. BARRETT. Special Cablo to Tho Tribune. ROME. Mutch 12. Mayor Nathan of Rome, when complaint was made recently recent-ly by AnnM-loan mid English visitors that the syndic and municipality were In their efforts at improving tbe city ruthlessly destroying landmarks which are of historic his-toric value to the -whole world, with much heat declared that Rome was competent com-petent to attend to her own affairs without with-out advico or consent from outsiders Now Bomo of the leading men of Ronm itself have been aroused to the necessity of curbing the anibitioiiK ;uirl energetic mayor Already In- Ikir cut trenches through the walls of Aurcllan. beaten Hat perhaps thf most perfect of tho few fragments of the walls or Sereins, now proposes to botlor the designs of Michel-Angelo Michel-Angelo on the Capitol,- and to lay out n modern boulevard along the Applan Way. This projected deed of vandalism Is not to be accomplished without resistance. re-sistance. Commendalor Bonl has resigned re-signed his place on the commission and Is engaged with Prince Ten no and others in forming a committee to Invoke the intervention f the government. These cultivated Italians, who feci with Dante that the stones which are in tho walls of Rome, and the. very ground on which It stands are hallowed, arc outraged by what Slgnor Nathan has done, and by what they believe that, he intends to do. But he lias the power to yet, and. as he has shown in otlnr instances, he likes to exert It decisively and Irreparably bc-for bc-for his hand van be stayed. , May .Stay .His Hand. Tie is at work already, and if the process pro-cess of destruction is to he arrested In time, it must be arrested at once. Nothing Noth-ing but a genenil and rcsojuto demonstration demon-stration of Italian opinion can nrr$u it. The treasures which Italy guards are Indeed the spiritual hciltage of civilized mankind, which the Italians hold In trust for all peoples and all generations. But it is for them to administer that inheritance inher-itance as they mink best for themselves and for 'the world. .They arc account-table account-table to none. The privilege of foreigners foreign-ers doct- not go beyond suggestion, advice, ad-vice, recommendation, and. In tho last result, remonstranco and protest. Demagogues Dema-gogues and vandals seek to misrepresent remonstranco ami protest as foreign dictation, dic-tation, but enlightened Italians have welcomed wel-comed both in the chief v controversies in which, they have been exerted, because upon broad and simple nucstions of this kind there Is but one taste and one judgmentthe judg-mentthe taslo and judgment of Europe. Eu-rope. Dies in Insane Asylum. The Insane chef. Giovanni Passananlo. who on November I". S7. attempted to murder King Humbert of Naples, died recently in tho criminal lunatic asylum of Moulclupo. near Volterra. He would-have would-have killed the king if th prime minister. min-ister. Benedetto Cairoll. the heroic companion com-panion of Garibaldi, who was seated bo-.slde bo-.slde Humbert, had not thrown himself forward and received In Ills breast the blow that was intended for the sovereign. sover-eign. Cairoll was seriously wounded. At that time .capital punishment existed in Italy, and Passanantc was condemned to death, but the king commuted. the sentence sen-tence to lifelong Imprisonment. The terrible ter-rible prison regime in Italy comprising complete isolation in a cell caused him to lose his reason, which was already unstable. un-stable. He was then, transferred to. Montclupo, where he passed his time in filling .sheots of paper with the mad ravings rav-ings of his disordered brain.