Breshy and the Italian Anarchists in Patterson

The crops had been poor, and the peasants saw themselves face to face with famine. They appealed to their good king, umberto he would help. The wives of the peasants held up in mute silence their emaciated infants. And then the soldiers fired and killed those poor fools. Breshy's soul recoiled in horror. At night, he heard the groans of the wounded. Some may have been his comrad his own flesh. Why? Why these foul murders?