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“DO ug toe ottipr inquiries by the Barons Franchett! and Sydney Sonnino were seen in 10 perspective by a later writer who made these comments: Rather than being 12 q ckhventional-type organization, with a fixed code of rules and a recognized 14 bode of officers; a secret society; » loose freemasonry such as that which cag bind anarchists of all countries together in sympathies if not in form; or. :19 , 4 Fooitical leacue, the Mafta might instead be referred to as a social el ph@Pomenon, 2 product of instinct atnong a people vho had, under the brutal 23 Jo gyotism of the Bourbons, and the extortions and oppressions of the Bourbon a roffee, lost all respect for law and all idea of an {mpartial and impersonal 28. iugitce between man and man, These forces "made each man an Ishmael 30 ambhg his fellows and spread an eceential epirlt of anorchy."" The "moral" 32 7043 that developed "turned upside dovn all the accepted notions of honor in morality. Jhough neither an open organization nor a secret soctety in be ordinar y sense of the terms, cnd though it had no central authority, rokdwernirant, and no laws, yet ‘the croups of Mafiosi, who were to be ‘ou in every tovn and village under local chiefs vere more or less connected with each other in symprthics and common formulae of action, 46 on by open bonds." It is this unlyve form of organtzation which prevails 54 - 39 -