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VT, The Brea Picture The trfia in Sicily is an unofficial fewJal system of power and. -: pairenage esta abiished and pininisined by craft and force. Itis a malignant " throscack to the days of Riecalo KMachlavelli and Cesare Borgia, many of whoece principles it employs in modern dress. The scheming Maftost, wherever they may be found, silently arrogate to themselves on the one hand ie ; ity, such as regulation, patronage, and at aed oa “a ? ; « 4 norers of saver nment author and they rob the people. and force themselves : Lexaiion, whito on the other h \. ! Coservers in recent years have pointed out that the Mafia no Longer : paraniiicolty into fae inber: joom of the state. } if ean claim even the miserable excuse for its existence it once held out to” bes! athe people: the control cf crime. While St is true that the Mafia controle ; poe = crime inthe sense that it dumipates certaln criminal operations wherever it, 7 ie can, it moderates the extent at crime only ta the bearable limit, beyond whet further trecpass would mean efther the destruction of the productive soctety,, on vhich it depends for its porasitic living, or & popular rising against it ina wave ef reprigal that youll encompass the destraction of its elements. wae |