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remember the demonstrations of civil servants in the courtyards of the Ministries, and the Ministers themselves besieged in their cabinets for not having immediately granted some demand, or for having dismissed a hall porter.
The judicial administration had to be re-established—the creation of a single Court of Cassation (in the place of the existing four) and the reduction of the number of inferior courts had been studied and voted a hundred times, but never carried out.
The reorganization of taxation—you remember the congeries of disastrous laws and decrees inspired by the purest demagogy, which crushed the luckless and patient tax-payer, the capital levy, the super-tax, the infinite series of additional taxes of the most inequitable and vexatious nature, the confiscatory death duties—all this has either diappeared or has been reorganized and co-ordinated by the admirable and tenacious efforts of the Finance Minister De Stefani.
I shall not speak of the educational reforms, which are magnificent, event though requiring partial revision, but which, to mention but a single detail, have called
