XX. — The International, the Nihilists, the Black Hand, «&;c. Ill

Differences in Masonry between the "Conservative Eepublicans" and the "Logical" Pai^y — Consequences to the masses from the victories of the Freemasons — State of the people in Italy after a quarter of a century of Masonic rule— Misery of the Peasants reduced to semi-starvation and to slavery by taxes and the anti-religious laws— Denial to the mass of Italians of the Franchise — Exorbitant taxes on the poor — Happy condition of the peasantry under the Popes — Masons in power bound to advance the Atheistic Programme against their wiU — The Secret Directory and their Anarchist War Party — The International and its division into National and International Brothers— The Black Hand— The Nihilists— The Anarchists with ourselves — Duty of oiu- Government in the face of Dynamitards, &c.