Before sixteen million inhabitants, the dictatorship has run over guarantees, violated rights and outraged citizens. With savage cruelty he has torn apart the independent press, the only remaining manifestation of freedom, he has filled the jails with honest citizens, he has started workshops, he has seized property and has not respected even the inviolable of the home ... You are incapable of developing your citizens, that is why we do it, because you are incapable of defending your freedom, that is why we have come to defend it for our children, for posterity to whom we do not want to leave only the stain of our ignominious cowardice. Because you do not use your rights, we come to use ours, so that at least it is clear that not everything was abjection and servility in our time. From "Vesped" May 15 1903 For the rest, we do not dispute the point: if there are such men of divine origin on earth, let t...