The Washington times., 1919-11-26
Today
In a Workers Pocket.
Up Goes Silver.
An Italian Republic?
A Simple Russian.
By ARTHUR BRISBANE
(CopyrtKht. Is1e.)

By ARTHUR BRISBANE
Copyright. ls1s)
A scaffolding fell yesterday.
Three men were killed. When the
body of Isidor Grossman, brick
layer, was lifted from the ground,
$500 in Liberty Bonds, s277 in
paper money fell from his pocket
That is better than finding a pawn
ticket, or a dispossess notice, as
you might have done few years
ago.
The value of silver goes climb
ing up. No wonder W. j. Bryan is
excited. It took a big war, how
ever, to do it.
Today the metal in a silver dol
lar is worth five cents more than
the dollar-but If you NETT down
the dollars, TO get the silver, you
viii be put in jail
The trouble, they say, is that
Chinese are boarding silver. Per-
haps they are getting ready to
fight Japan, want silver to fight
with, and put it away as Prussia
nut away at Spandau the gold re-
serve that was to beat al Europe.
Good is accomplished when the
accomplished little dreams it.
For instance, the United States
Government has treated Italy
shamefully in the war settlement
The city of Fiume, which is
Italian, the northeast coast of the
Adratic, that was the property of
the people of Italy for centuries,
should have gone to Italy when
the war ended.
In the days Of Cavour, Mazziri,
and the great Garibaldi, the Ital-
ian nation was swindled by Napo-
leon III, later well beaten By
Prussia Napoleon did not keep
his word, did not even allow the
Italians to take back Venice from
Austria They had to wait for
that until Bismarck came along.
Napoleon sympathized with the
Hapsburgs, not with the liberty
LOVING people of Italy, so he left
with Austria the unredeemeJ Ital-
ban territory WHICH ABSOLUTE
LY BELONGS to Italy.
The United States shows lack of
justice, lack of appreciation for the
splendid work that the Italians
have done for liberty and for IN
dnQ<xy IN this country, when the
lan1B hat belong to Italy are
4 1nn3ed over 30 people that wont
know what to do with them.
But. good comes out Of evil. A
republic in Italy may be the result
Of this Republics unfair treat
ment Of the Italian people.
Italy would be a gamer if out
Of the unjust treatment to which
she has been subjected by this
country . great Italian Republic
should arise. That republic viii
know how to get ultimately what
belongs to Italy. Meanwhile, may
the United States realize that the
Italian people of the twentieth
century should not be tied down
b. the tricky deals between the
Hspsburys and the imitation
Napoleon.
Every corporation will tell you
that Government ownership would
be q terrible thing So it would,
for corporations. For instance,
with the war over the postage rate
Of three cents was changed to two
cents. Now Mr.. Burleson proposes
to cut the price to one cent for
local postage. That Is done by
postoffice run by the people and
making a profit
You haven't noticed any private
corporations acting in this way,
have you?
II you believe news from Rus
sia, not always reliable, they shot
Mr.. Bakromoff, president Of cer-
tain Soviet His crime was OBJ
tanning money under false pre-
lenses. He raised rubles, and said
he had used them to bribe Clemen-
eeau of France and Wilson of
America. The story was that the
American President got one hum
dred and fifty thousand rubles,
which in American money would
be about enough to buy a good au-
tomobile. M Bakromof seems to
have shared the sweet simplicity
of the little child that helped the