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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„ |
