New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-09-18


ton in the fsce of the universally notorious fact
that no human being dreams of using force
on even persuasion TO induce him 20 leave Rome.
IL Is true that the mob which composed the meeting
have mentioned in favor Of abo!iS:ing the Law OF
the Guarantees, demanded that The Papal palaces.
e., the Vatican, which lac nbabits and the iateran,
which serves only a nu5oum-should he taken
from him. But all the world know. very well that
there is not the remoest chance that any such sug
geStion should be acted on and that the real main
object of the meeiagai-as the Italians have begun
amuSngly to cali ihe attendants at such demonsra-
tions-was to cause difficulty and embarrassment for
the Ministry.
The truth, however, is that the defnitive de-
parture OF the Pope from Rome would not suns tho
interests or purposes o. either party-o either the
Papacy or the Italian Government It would be o
capital error, and OF which the Church is in
the least likely 10 be guilty for the Papacy to pull
l'selt UP by tAe roots from tho soil in which it has
grown. However much it may be urged that it Is
not now thriving in that soil il would Dc so palpa-
hly An exotic in sny other that it would at once
VisibIy dwnde to proportions absolutely insignii-
can't in comparison with those which it still assumes
in its old tradi onai habitat. Unquesrionably Rome
could do better without the Pope than tho
Pope without Rome. And il would need
gong INTO the matter at greater length
than would be possible in the space Won could afford
me to explain all the threads of sentiment which
would make the departure OF the Papacy from Italy
uhweicomc even to those Italians who have least love
Tor IL. 1t Is something which nobody else has got
Ii Is indissolubly connected with all that has in the
past enabled the Italians to claim that primary in
civilization their title to which they yet unwill-
ing to abandon, and to which they have still more
real claim than is for the most part rightly under
stood by 1ransapine Europe. Then there is the real
and more practical consideration that any nation
which should have afforded n home to the Papacy
would, Mt all events in the present condition of
Europe, find no difficulty in using it as a weapon
against Italy in case of need. No! The world may
be assured that with the exception of few fanatics
OF the Extreme Left. Italians would zee with no
little regret the departure of the popo for any other
home
So his Holiness may with tocrable security await
the martyrdOm which his determination not to leave
Rome is expected to bring upon him "Nec tecum
viverc possum sine te !" said the old poet TO his
mistress. And really Italy might address the Papacy
In somewhat similar language
AT the time when the utterly unjustifablo aggres-
sion OF France in Tuns was beginning to show itself
IN All Its monStrous audacity, the politicians of
Europe with very general accord observed that
Germany-i. e., Bisnarck-allowed France to do
whatever she pleased there. because it well snitsd
her that permanent and internecine hostility
should be placed between France and Italy And
IL is becoming more and more apparent every day
that the calculations which prompted such a policy
were entirely well founded. For some few weeks
past the Italian, Austrian and German Press has
Deen occupying itself with the increasing symptoms
OF coming alliance between Italy, Austria and
Germany. 1t is now said-and the report has with
III the last DAY or two assumed great appearance
OF beng well founded--that King Humbert is about
10 Vist the Emperor of Austria at Vienna The
Austrian Press affects to assume rather fine air of
one graciously asserting to the eager proposels of
sultor; but the truth is that Austria is also
anxious Tor the alliance. 1t is iutimated that if
there Is to be any such friendship nothing moro
must be heard of any Italia Irredenta" nonsense
mat Is matter of And Italy will be ouite
ready TO meet Austria on those terms
The National feeling which is now burning with
Indignation and resentment for the wrong that has
been done by France in Tuns is incornparably more
strong ana earnest than any sentiment of hostility
toward Austria in respect of Trieste or the Trent
district ever was. And with very good reason Italy
can live and prosper and advance toward the bright
estfuture that any Italian desire for her hont
possessing Trieste the Trentino Bat she can
neither live nor prosper advance toward any
object of her legitimate ambition unless and until
she is able to resist the determination and the al
tempts of France 10 make the Mcditer-
ranean French lake and attribute
to herself the primary Of the Latin
race. All the talk about the Latin race" by the
by is mere nonsense and fiction. small portion
only of the Inhabitants of France in any wise be
long to the Latin stock. Aud one would have
thought that " Caesar de Bello Calico" might have
suiiiced to teach all schoolboys as much Bat all
| that matters little Our French friends not only
choose to consider themselves Latins but insist on
behaving as though they were the elder branch of
the family.
Now the grounds of enmty arising out Of these
pretenslons and the result of them and will be
necessarily permanent and admit Of no reconc;1i,
tion Italy must be again reduced to tie condition
Sie occupied Tor so many CENTURIES France must
be compelled to keep hands off" the Mediterranean
meantime II is very curious to observe how thc
whole OF the German and Austrian Press which was
duii OF cement to France to work her viii at
Tunis as long as the thing was still to be done j.
now equally full of sneerng and gibing reproarhes
Tor what has been done The conclusion of the
aforementioned alliance if in truth the general cW
pectation be realized will be the most pr1mlnently
Interesting Italian, and indeed European fact Of
the coming autumn. -
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