Today -100: October 25, 1922: Either we are allowed to govern, or we will seize power by marching on Rome

Mussolini tells the 1st annual convention of the Fascist Party that the government has given in to his demands for elections, soon, under new rules. He says he wouldn’t join the cabinet himself, but has demanded for the Fascists the ministries of war, the navy, foreign affairs, labor, and public works. He says democracy needs to be superseded by super-democracy, whatever that means.

The US is banning ships entering US ports with alcohol onboard, but British law requires steamers to carry a gallon of brandy for every 100 steerage passengers. For medicinal purposes, obvs.

Boy, Bonar Law’s Cabinet sure contains a lot of viscounts this and marquises that and dukes of whatever. Which means that the colonial secretary, for example, won’t be in the Commons to defend the government’s colonial policies.

Ten IWW members are being tried in Sacramento under California’s Criminal Syndicalism Law. A former aide to Big Bill Haywood claims that during the war Wobblies tried to send poisoned canned goods to American soldiers in France.

Woodrow Wilson will be able to vote in next month’s election after all. New Jersey, a state in which he no longer resides, will allow him to vote as a (very) absentee voter. He’s registered at a one-room apartment in Princeton he once lived in but which is now occupied by a student.

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