Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-08

shore and as faithful dogs We defended
our masters.
These services. rendered at the peril
of our lives, how have the Italian mas
ters reQuited them? In overwhelming
us with abuse and in treating us with
contempt and disdain. 1t had been
easy in the past, now long ago, to gain
over the Slovene 30 the superior civil
ization of the Italian. Had this been
done it would have been useful now.
We would have been we'll with them:
we would have spoken the Italian Ian
guage, embraced their ideas, sustained
their nationa Inspirations; in a word.
we would have been friends in place OF
enemies. Overwhelmed with outrage.
we have become irreconcilable enc
mics. BY detestable play on words
the Italian affects to treat US as
1t must not be assumed that the Slo-
Vene eX-deputy has overcharged the
situation as it was
Attitude Toward and is. I have my
Al self. when on ex-
countries, witnessed the arrogance OF
the italian toward the simple but sensf-
tive Slovene peasant. On a certain oc-
casion l saw a hairdresser chase from
his shop young Slav who had come to
ness and perfume, and the Italian
apostrophized him thus: IVA via
schiava!" ("Get off with you. slavery,
using thus precisely this play on the
word slav of which the Slovene deputy
has complained. Italy has lost her OPP
portunity in the past; 1t is perhaps not
too late to recover the lost ground.
Such faults are the errors of govern
ments and governments must atone for
Vlanr,, be- l. -
by teaching citizens the spirit Of the
golden rule, do unto others as you
would they should do unto you.''
If Trieste is veritable Latin col
largely inhabited by a constantly ris-
ing tide Of Slavs And this tide. ac-
cording to a writer, has been directed
with subtility by agents of the imperial
government 1t is to Prince Conrad Won
Hohenlohe principally that the substitu-
tion of Slovene for Italian has been
slowly effected. The government at
Vienna has manifested further inter-
est in Trieste by the construction of q
spacious harbor in Muggia bay. to
which railways give access. shortening
thus by several hundred miles and
many hours the distance between Ham
burg and the north Adriatic coast. The
journals of the "Kolossal Hansiatic en-
porium" also manifest the satisfaction
Of the Germans Of that city over the
achievement of an enterprise which is
considered as sort of anticipated pos
session by Germany And this antici-
pated occupation in the future is made
mo more oS,,. certain "a and suggestive BY such
unsere Hafen am Adriatiches Meer"-
Trieste our port on the Adriatic Sea-
Under such circumstances It Is easy
| to understand that the cabinet at Rome
| never for moment seriously enter
tanned the propositions made by Prince
Won Buelow, Germany's special ambas-
sador to Rome. NJ. Salandra's speech
delivered at the capital confirms the
affirmation Of the Corriere della Sera
that Austria was bent upon war. Italys
policy was simply one Of temporization
! that she might be better prepared.
As for italian aspirations. there was
no secret. for they had been declared
from every housetop
Aspirations in Italy-that Is to
Well known say. in every journal
They were announced
In the Garabaldian solemnity Of the
quarto at Florence and in the theater
Of the Fenice in Venice the redemption
of Trente and Trieste.
Italy's policy of irredentism as to
Trente and Trieste included the mari
time hegemony of the Adriatic and the
provinces in which the Lion Of Saint
Marc had left the imprint of it's pow
erful claws. In the presence of the
clinical conditions in Austria the Slav,
the German and the economical neces-
stiles of Austria, the latter, it was GER
tain, would make no concession except
under the threat of Germany.
Italy, it was certain, under the ever
increasing power of the irredentists.
allies. AS for race antagonisms be-
tween Slav and Italian, Italy would
atone for the faults committed by pow
erful seductions which she may exer-
which may follow the war.
A great injustice to the Slovenes
must be confessed and repaired. The
wounds are still bleeding, but Italy will
learn to treat the wounded with an
affectionate and fraternal hand. The
scars will be healed and the Slav peo-
pies will be attracted to one of the
greatest foyers Of civilization by q
process, of rapprochement which will
be effected by their brothers in the
provinces Of Galicia and Transylvania.
A writer of authority, NJ Louis de
Laigue, minister plenipotentiary, writ
ing on the subject of Italian unity, in
dulges in the following vision of Italy'e
redemption of Trente and Trieste:
CLOSING the eyes of the body in or
der to render more intense the vision
Of those of the spirit. evoke with pc
eullar precision ;n pc th the
tique city of Trieste. A warm sun
shines and scintillates from pro-
foundly blue sky on the waters OF the
arises with its silhouette recalling a
past tragedy; but today under the in
tense light whose atmosphere floods
the white castle, which seems to have
dressed itself for the fete and welcomes
the great 'Gonfalon of Savoy which
floats from its crenelated tower
Everywhere the city is decked with
flags, the king appears and the COR
tege passes on to the historic Cathedral
of Saint Just. Amid cries Of Viva San
Giusto! the Italian flag ia raised on the
Campanile and then alongside the
standard Of San Giusto, the Campanfle
whose mass reposes on the Roman
foundations, which still include certain
columns of the pagan temple of an
cient days. With that standard it is
the proud past of Tergeste which
unites itself indissolubly to the re-
newed glory of united Italy"
CHI. CHAILLE-LONG.