The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-10-05
GugIieImo FeEraE@

ILhiy mas proved LnS uSLtA1btS Oh
Austria, says Guglielmo FsErero, fa4l
nous Italian author who wrote "TThas
Greatness and Decline OF Rome
FerreTo in a recent article says:
The Austrian generals who are
attempting to lead the GerTnaLt
hordes once more TO gorge their APE
petites by pilIags in the valley of the
Pc have been obliged to recall tho
story of their ,proclamations. ThbT
have reminded the soldiers thas
their fathers and grandfathers dee
scended before them from those
mountains to Cypress Italy.
We also know this. We, too, ia
these days of supreme crisis. when
the empire OF Austria and the king
dom Of Italy are at grips in a death
duel, recall the century which per-
haps will close with this battle. We
congress of Vienna, where the greed
of the Hapsburgs won in the end
against the wiser doubts OF the other
states, and Lombardy and Venice
torn from their own family, werA
conducted like slaves into the camp
Of the conqueror and bound to the
Austrian empire.
We also remember that from thai
day Austria was the torment, this
her turn Italy has been the ruin anAs
perdition OF Austria.
10 Boomerang 20 Austria,
I'VE carry today on our body thaf
scars of the chains with which shes
loaded us. but the dynasty OF the
HapsburgR fell in the second half oG
the nineteenth century from fits en-
cient splendor, and it totters today
because It wanted Italy for itself on
the fall Of the empire Of Napoleon
Who can tell all OF the injurN
Austria did us from 1915 TO 1870
not only in the two provinces sub
tect to her rule but also-and mor@
in the rest OF the peninsula. In tho
little states trembling under herr
threatening protection? Her suB-
picious consideration of the interests
Of the state made us lose fifty years
And what years! The most silently 1
fraught with growth and develops
ment OF the whole century.
impsded All Reforms.
From 1915 till 1859 in all Of ITALY.
and outside OF Piedmont after 1873
I'm order to make her. way maora
secure, Austria, with intrigusa, with
threats. with corruption. multiplied /
and emblttered the internal discords
OF the peninsula: sustained the most
perniclous elements I'm power, ana
ptEHeEuLeu tho uVplv9@ uuASSLMsAge4
She protected ali abuses ana Ina
peded even the most essential res
Scale Is Turned.
Destiny, however, has brought /
our vindication az well with AUS
tria. which was our jailer, as with 1
Europe which lightly gave the tools
with which to torment US. BY GOV
citing italy Austria lost her pradomi-
nant place in the German world and
was obliged to yield the scsptar To
pirs the scour Of the world.
THE Italian question and ths
complications IT created in all Ed
ropean affairs opened the way For
the grim ambitions Of Prussia.
What was the italian questi4n.
created by the congress OF wfenfsa
and a bitter one since 1913, excepe
the sacrifice of a people, which for
its ancient culture might cona
itself the first born Of Europe. tnan
occult reason Of state?
And what 'aaa the Balkan ESIe8@
ton, from which this war. unlifs
by time or space. was set IN H1us5as1
except the ireradieabie clashina
the interests and ambitions df
great European powers, which,
babe the little Balkan states I'd sFs
in peace or to make war; to e
themselves into Independent Bts
bv their own forces. or TO lekngEa
the protection of n stronger p'oE
Events. however. are beg8n1
10 speak clearly. even 20 t1a
least disposed to listen. and E1s
will succeed in restoring her lhf
TO order I'm such q way that &
and small states can live SIDE
side. without togmenfing, corT18pt
or exploiting the smaller bY
larger. or else the old world
perish. convulsed in ruin bys
cate stronlle.