Hunger Robbers for Robbery Wars, 4
The living conditions in Naples and Rome were so miserable that the cost of living and taxes were low, public finances were thriving, emigration and poverty were virtually nonexistent, and care facilities, often managed by the clergy, provided an excellent welfare compared to Turin, where such facilities were abolished, thus causing widespread poverty and a further increase of the already huge debt. Another meaningful indicator of the social climate is that, during a five−year period not long before the unification, the death sentences carried out were zero in Naples and one hundred and thirteen in Turin, plus nearly ten thousand pardons granted, for both common and political crimes, in Naples.
Debt, in fact. The public debt of Turin was the highest among the pre−unitary states, and it was three times that of Naples, in the face of the population of Naples that was three times that of Turin.
Banksters, needless to say, cherished Turin and hated all the other pre−unitary states, Naples, Rome, Florence, Parma and Modena, etc., and intended to turn them from dangerous examples of prosperity beyond their control to dairy cattle well aligned in their slaughterhouse.
Hence, the patriots exerted an intellectual pressure promoting the “modern”, “constitutional”, “liberal” regimes of Turin and other European countries under the control of banksters against the “backward”, “despotic”, “illiberal” regimes of Naples, Rome, Florence, Parma and Modena, etc.
Hence, London demonised Naples as a “rogue state” via a political and press campaign, and as a result the adjective “Bourbonist” became the universally accepted derogatory label under which anything traditional is stigmatised as negative. Here’s an example of this, in the form of a textbook case of double standard: In 1848, Naples intervened in a revolt in Messina supported by London; there was no massacres, and the Bourbonist army brought the civilians to safety; the King in the press became a “monster”. In 1849, Turin intervened in a revolt in Genoa; there were five hundred civilian victims; the King in the press was still a “gentleman”.
