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General Cialdini has addressed a letter to the municipality of

Naples urging them to action. He tells them that the nineteenth century cannot wait, and that they must waste no more time over a discus.. sion on language. " Naples has need of scavengers, of water, of easier communications, of more convenient and open thoroughfares." The municipality is to make them, and not dream of Arcadia. Naples, of course, will, after its fashion, admire the "salt" in the letter, and go on as dirty and as lazy as before. Heavy and un- avoidable taxation is, we honestly believe, the only blessing which will teach Neapolitans the value of hard work. They can toil if they will, like all Southern races, but while their wants are so few they will prefer basking in the sun.

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