Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-11-23
ITALY FEARFUL OF ISOLATION
Ono Of the Days Hest Cartoons.

III ALI FEA[NFOl
NEW YORK. November 22.-The Eve
ming Post prints the following from
staff correspondent in Turin, Italy:
In Italy there are two principal cur
sympathy with Franco. from long
F. entertained admiration for England.
| and from horror at the atrocities Of
the war. they grow in strength and
F! Importance, because the course OF the
| conflict affects and threatens tevery
day more nearby the interests Of
Italy.
One OF these currents. the most emo
tional and most colorcd. by patriotic
aims. sways those parties related to
the disciples of our Risorgimento tthe
| Nationalists), or to the school OF
cans), or. finally. to the followers OF
/! the humanitarian theories which opened
a way for themselves through the
| bloodshed OF the French Revolution
! tthc Revolutionary Sociaiists).
The other current comes principally
| from Democrats. Radicals and Reform
! list Socialists. Tho second considers
with great attention the present In
tercsts of Italy; starting from an ex-
animation OF facts. II arrives at pas
| sionate conclusions; and II does not
| conceal from itself how grave II would
| be for Italy and for her economic de-
vclopment. should she find herself
Isolated at the end OF this great war.
| which Is ovcrturning all values OF ma
| terial and political life In Europe.
| The first tNat!onalists. Republicans,
| and some SocIRlists), at the sight of
/ tortured Belgium and of France mem
| aced with defeat, cried aloud In the
name OF humanity, and also OF italian
unity. and Is not yet silent. The second
| has been growing. rs II caught the
echo OF national sentiment. more and
more sympathetic with France and
! England: and, as. with tho increasing
defeat OF Austria, there has appeared
J the danger OF the falling apart OF the
Austrian empire, and the other danger.
, equally great. OF Russia's advance to
the Adrintic. and the probability OF
| Italy's being obliged nnally to reckon
with RUSSIA, II has become more and
more eager for intervention.
| How italian Minds Are WORKING
Here Is the patriotic argument:
Italy has outside her boundaries
/ three italian provinces TO redeem: peo-
pie OF our own blood. invoking us with
| outstretched arms. This dream, which
two years ago seemed unrealizable, has
| now entered the field OF concrete posi-
bilities. Austria. according 70 the
almost universal opinion. has no more
strength Of resistance. Our interest Is,
| In this solemn passing hour. to take
Trent and Trieste. Fiume and cara. We
| must keep this program before our
| eyes and In our hearts-not In diplo-
matic disguise, not for the sake OF
| Adriatic or Balkan equilibrium, or OF
Latin resistance to the eruption OF
| SlavisT-but solely for the national
and ideal purpose which. for half a
century, guided Mazzini. Cavour and
US Join Itself to the years 1866. 1859,
| lS49 and 1s4S. National unity. still un-
| attained. must he achieved. The work
| which under our fathers was inter-
rupted at Custom must accomplish its
end. 1t was not at the Isonzo that tho
! great Italians. from Dante to Cavour
placed the boundaries OF Italy. To-day
we may re-estnblish them where our
! race ends. Let us open our eyes to this
truth. With what sorrow and scorn
| shall We DO regarded, In tho realm OF
| shadows, by the heroes OF thought and
| action, who broke the chains Of our
! slavery and laid tho foundations of
our country? Let us consider what an
! inexorablc curse will be laid upon our
I, graves by our sons. If we allow the
{, brilliant meteor to pass without arrest
i ing IL. The Italian martyrs of Aus
! tritn tyranny, the innunerable throng
of those who sacrificed their lives in
the galleys md on tho scaffold. In Or
I der to constitute liz an independent
nation. are waiting!
| These things are said and written
| openly by the Nationalists; tho Repub-
4 licans. with q more steadfast renem-
brance OF their leaders. loudly proclaim
| them; and II the, Revolutionary So
cialists DO not say them, thoy listen,
and some among them applaud.
Democrats. Radicals, Reformist-So-
cialists, too. demand intervention. The
difference between the two sets Of
| opinions lies In this: one party (Na-
tionalists and Republicans) desires i'm
| mediate Intervention, Mt MI COSTS for
| the sake Of n united Italian race: tho
! other Is equally DESTROYS o. interview
| ton, but bases Its desire upon def
! mite reason--thc fnct that Austria has
! been defeated by Russia, or, at least, is
In such q condition as TO render de-
| feat, not merely probable, but certain.
| The difference between the two parties
Hs not great, The first is logical In
demanding immediate intervention, be-
| cause helping France and Russia in
| tho destruction OF Austria signifies
| triotic ideal to which they are prin-
! cipally tending. The other, calner.
Hooks toward the interests Of the whole
| Of Italy, and not only OF the three
provinces not as yet within our po-
! lttical boundaries, and desires thorough
preparation, because 1t foresees the
necessity OF intervention at no distant
1 date. But neither party really regrets
| our present neutrality, OF wishes tn
precipitate events
| Argument OF Practical Considerations.
|; And here Ia the matter-of-fact arr
guinent:
! The European war. they say, though