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Show BEGGARY IN ITALY. There Are Real Causes . For It An Englishman's View. Writing to the London Pilot, a charitably char-itably inclined Englishman thus explains ex-plains the reasons why so much mendicancy mendi-cancy obtains in Italy: There is no provision whatever made by the state, in Italy. lor its poor. We are so accustomed to our almlpuscj. workhouses, etc., at home, that it takes some little time for the English person abroad to grasp the fact that, whereas the "Paternal Government of Italy" (I speak as an enlightened Protestant) Prot-estant) has spent much time in stead-fly stead-fly endeavoring to suppress the religious re-ligious orders and in annexing a con-I con-I siderable part of their .mnperties, it has hitherto as steadily declined to accept the inevitable legacy left them bv those same suppressed religious orders, or-ders, viz., the tens cf thousands of the poor and aged and decripit. who, past alt hope of gaining a .subsistence for themselves, received their daily or weekly dole at the convent doors, and per r'amore di Dio e San Francesco were kept from absolute starvation and misery by the monks. I ask the tourist to remember that, the poor in Italy are very poor; they have often, after a long, hardworking life ot" it. nevthing to fall back upon except ex-cept the charity of the public And as long as nothing is done for them by their government, one fails to see what i resource lies open to them other than to beg their bread. Ic is a sad enough outlook for the poor, and one cannot but wonder whether, if placed under , similar circumstances, wo should bear up in the astonishingly cheerful man- ; ner in which the Italians do. j It will do the English tourist no harm in the long run. while it certainly wih ; do great good to. his poorer brethren, j if occasionally, instead of showing j lively displeasure at their intrusive presence, he were to bestow on them, like the monks of old. his soldo, per l'amore di Dio. He may at least reck- ! on on receiving more than a soldo's j worth of genuine thanks for the gift j which is more than can be said some- j times for gifts bestowed in higher quarters! i |