" I, who live among these quiet people, and I know that the manners and customs of the poor inhabitants of the country, who have nothing to eat in proportion to what they work, who do not have enough to be covered from the weather and snow from the Apennines, in the huts, which are untrustworthy asylum much of rural people, I know that, for the military profession, as in many of those habitations can not be a moment for the rest of the people that eat that is not humanly possible to eat, because they live where life has become miserable and forlorn ... the fate of the poor owner who works his land, is sadder than that of the sharecropper of our locations: where if the farmer can save his life still life in the months of greatest need, in the years from a shortage of employers' reliance on the rich harvest: you can not resist the small owner of mountain misery of a life full of hardship and debt and sinking in general, is swallowed by the fish 'wear! "(Bulletin of the federation in the Tuscan-Romagna for the Forest Reform Florence A. 1 No. 1 January 15, 1905)
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