PREMIER CRISPI.

Te Aroha News, Volume VIII, Issue 488, 12 July 1890, Page 5

PREMIER CRISPI.

One of the Grand Old Men of European* Politics. Crispi ia indeed one of the 'grand old men 5 who have in recent years had so large a share in directing the destinies of European states says n writer in 4 Frank Leslie’s Magazine.’ He has passed his three score and tenth year, and yet his physical and mental powers seem diminished. He holds his own as stoutly against his antagonists as he once fought the myrmidons of the execrable Bomba under the deep blue skies of Sicily. For, like Cairoli and many other deputies, Crispi was one of the gallant soldiers of the Italian deliverance. Born in Sicily in 1819, he came of that famous Grajco-Roman stock which contributed many a fiery spirit to the Southern Italian revolution. 4 The Sicilian of the Gneco-Roipan race,' says q, recent writer, ‘is silent, suspicious, wise, faithful, unable to forget either a good or evil deed without having rewarded or avenged ; not easily moved from his purpose, and always armed with infallible logiq. Full of boundless self-confidence, he hates cowardice and indolence ; will use any means to obtain a desirable end ; is a faithful friend, a terrible, irreconcilable, but honest enemy, and more inclined to action than to words.’. This might servo very well as the description of Crispi himself, a true son of that remarkable race.