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SOME CARDINAL SINS
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having done their duty." It appears still more natural that a resolution of the Socialist party in the Italian Chamber demanding restrictive regulations in regard to the employment of the military in collective conflicts should be voted down.

The first effect of the shootings of the month of May of 1898 was to clear the situation in the class-struggle and make even the blind and the short-sighted optimists see how matters stood. The following is a nearly complete register of the bloodshed of recent years:

1901, June 27, Berra 2 killed, 10 wounded
1902, May 4, Patugnano 1 killed, 7 wounded
1902, August 5, Cassano 1 killed, 3 wounded
1902, September 8, Candela 5 killed, 11 wounded
1902, October 13, Giarratana 2 killed, 12 wounded
1903, May 21, Piere 3 killed, 1 wounded
1903, April 20, Galatina 2 killed, 1 wounded
1903, August 31, Torre Annunziata 7 killed, 10 wounded
1904, May 17, Cerignola 3 killed, 40 wounded
1904, September 4, Buggera 3 killed, 10 wounded
1904, September 11, Castelluzzo 1 killed, 12 wounded
1904, September 15, Sestri Ponente 2 killed, 2 wounded
1905, April 18, Foggia 7 killed, 20 wounded
1905, May 15, St. Elpidio 4 killed, 2 wounded
1905, August 16, Grammichele 18 killed, 20 wounded
1906, March 23, Muro 2 killed, 4 wounded
1906, March 21, Scarano 1 killed, 9 wounded
1906, April 30, Calinera 2 killed, 3 wounded
1906, April 4, Turino 1 killed, 6 wounded
1906, May 12, Cagliari 2 killed, 7 wounded