The food was in one place, and the hungry
soldiers in another. The guns were in one
place, and the ammunition in another. It even
happened that parts of the guns would lie in
one place, and the other parts in another.
There were pitiable instances where the
French soldiers did not even know how to
load and fire the new rifles; and there the poor
fellows stood, helpless, to be shot down by the
perfectly-drilled marksmen of Germany.
Then came the downfall of the rotten Cath
olic empire, which the Jesuits nad created,
with so much toil, so much intrigue, and so
'much crime.
At the same time, Garibaldi, the Washing
ton of Italy, sprang upon the Pope's rotten
kingdom, again, and this time there was no
army of Catholic France, or of Catholic Aus
tria, to hold up the hateful rule of the priests.
With the birth of a new Republic in France,
the French people rapidly restored their pros
perity, and created the splendid army which
is now exciting the admiration of mankind.
With the birth of a new Republic, in Italy—-
for the King is a mere figurehead—the Ital
ians have made marvelous progress in all
directions; and have created the army which
Germany and Austria are both dreading.
Under the Popes, the Italian armies used
to be silly jokes: under parliamentary self
government, the Italian army is holding the
balance of power, in the European war.
Now, consider this:
Bismarck drove the Jesuits out of Germany,
in 1807.
At that time, the old Emperor, William 1.,
had been recently elected, and he was a really
democratic ruler.
