Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-11-10
GLORY THAT IS |TALY's
BORN OF HER SACRIFICE
nor the German Sword
Intimidatc.
IN1BUED By GARIBALDTs SPIRIT
Menaccd With Fate Like That OF
Serbia and Belgium, She Refused
to Seek Security From Huns by
Sale of Her Soul.
tDT SIR HALL GAME. X. ID. Ed
International News Bureau.l

international News Bureau.l
Walking from the Porta Pia (the
army OF Italy entered Rome forty
eight years ago) along the broad ave-
nue. OF the Ncnti Settembre, one sees
down it's deep declivity. over the roofs
Of the old Roman palaces. across the
IiDer. and up the steep ascent of the
Trastevere, n huge figure, banked by
against the sky. 1t is the great eques-
TRAN statue of Italy's lberator. Gius-
1t dominates Rome. 1t towers over
IL with the .mperious mien of the mas
ter. Seated on lis charger the figure
eternal city of his hopes. When the
brilliant Italian sun. rises on it,, the
bronze face OF Garibald seems TO shine.
almost to blaze. AS with triumphant
Joy at the supreme realization OF his
drcam-"Roma Morte!" But when
IN shade; the whole huge. masterful
figure. dark against the fiery sky,
seems TO look down on Rome with
menacing. almost u threatening aspect
gloomy. stern and grim.
The sun is rising ON the face OF
Garibaldt today; That In the great
Ing shoulder TO shoulder with Great
Britain, France and America against
the forces that would cnslave the
great libcrator still lives, that the soul
OF Mazzini survives in her soul. and
that the traditional aspirations OF Vic
to BIO fulfilled. If it had been other
wise. and Italy had been fighting side
by side with Austria and Germany. the
brave. and loyal Italian people would
have been in honor bound to bear down
and destroy the mighty statue that
stands over Rome. instead OF decorat-
do to-day, with the sacred and immor-
tai flowers Of gratitude and freedom.
What story lteiv's n,rt In thc 80"
She was bound in Ausus,. -.i., 49,. 1.
secret document, but everybody knew
that IL required that she should join
compelled 10 engage in defensive war
Hence. the first question for her II
those early and fatefui days, was
against Serbia, and waged by Germany
against Belgium. although apparcntlS
aggressive. was i'm reality defensive
what would happen to her II she do
cided against her allies? She did de
eide against them. thereby giving thu
lie to their kaisers and chancellors
who had been telling the neutral ma .
lions that the war had been forced
upon them. BY all the written and
and Austria ought then. II they had be-
l;eved their own story. to have de
clared war on Italy. They did nos
to whecdie her. to try TO buy her. to
bride her, and corrupt her. body and
soul.
FAILED IN THEIR ETEoRT
TO BRJRE ITALY
They failed. After flooding the
peninsula with lying literature: direct
ed chiefly against ourselves. Germany
sent back to the Italian capital its most
astute statesmen. its most subtle dtplo-
matist, Won Bulow, who was married to
a much admired Italian woman. 1t
was all in vain. Italy knew her own
49, 1t0 IL n n ynn lr M Inn
her own heart. She had begun with
contempt for the nation which could
attack Serbia, under the pretense OF
Ferdinand, and with loathing for tho
other nation which could violate Bel
GUM after It had sworn to protect her,
horror of the perpetrators Of those
outrases in Liese in Louvain and in
Rheims. which were scorching mems
eyes In the name Of war.
Still. Italy, although separated from
her former allies. was not yet taking
sides against them. Why? There WAS
even OF misunderstanding among her
own people. Whispers reached them
that their King had said Che never
fight with her former friends she
should never fight against them. This
was Il blow to Italian pride, for Vic |
tor Emmanuel III. is the best beloved
man in Italy. the father OF his peo-
pie, whose heads would bow before
his will even though their hearts were
The people did not know all. AL
though their country had not openly
ming, She was in it from the first day
and hour Even when they were res
tive under the thought that Italy was
doing nothing. WINE BEYOND the1r A,ps
against the worst tErant that
had yet threatened the world. their
rNnniry was a'resdy o at war
silently in her tailors workshops.
where uniforms were being prepared
for mighty, army soon to take the
field, and audibly in the forGes Of Milan
and TERM, where vast quantities or
were being hammered out for
4 long campaign
WAR ENTERS ITALY
IN ONE GREAT STRIDE
Then. in one supreme and vivid mo-
mcnt, the war entered Italy at stride
It came in n profoundly impressive
form, the dead body of Bruno Carl
IA id. one Of the GrandSons OF the lib
erator. Fighting for France. Bruno
iad fallen in Il gallant charge at the
'front.', and his brother. who was by his
side, had carried his body out of the
<now Rome do not need TO be told how
t Was received there. We can see the
.ense mass OF uncovered heads in the
'iaZze dele Tcrme stretching from the
ioors Of the railway station to the
rome fountain at the top OF the Via
tacionalc. and we can hear the deep
well Of the GaribaldiaE hymn. which
'omcs like a challenge. us we'll as
moan from $4,000 throats., Not for the
irSt time was IL dead Garibaldi being
,ornc through the streets of Rome
nd those OF us who remembered the
arlicr day knew well that with the
'ody Of this brave Italian lad the war
ad entered Italy.
That was the great and awful hour
When Italy stood on the threshold OF
Ter fate: hut though Great Britains
Icart was bleeding from the sacrifices
he had already made. and had still to
make, and though Italy's Intervention
neant so much TO us, we did not feel
hat we had Il right to ask for It, The
reaty that bound Italy to England had
ot been written on Il scrap of paper.
t was in our blood, born of our de-
'otion to humanity, to justice. to lib
uen. Therefore. with the world in
rms about her, let Italy do what she