Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-24

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With me.
pl1er, why have we not regilded with
dollar gold the equestrian statue of
Marcus Aurelius2
1--WE have two enemies equally
ignoble and implaeable-the foreign
enemy and the enemy inside our
gates. We conquered the foreign
enemy And he now seems to be
reborn under a new name, and
with a novel doctrine. he is once
more facing us, claiming for him
self what is ours.
ave might have imagined that
the enemy within our gates would
have been squashed by the same
smashing victory. Not at all. He
is at it again more dangerous than
before because he is now protesting
the new doctrine of immortal prin-
cipies. And so, Italy, the ancient
and great Italy, stronger than its
fate and purer than its glory, is again
staggering under the load of that
unspeakable humility which for 50
years made her vegetate in obscur-
ity.
What Kind of Peace?
"And the people of the Star Span
gled Banner does not conceal that
It has concluded the best and great
est of its work, i.e.-the achievement
of eternal idealism,' and Italy al
ready allows strangers to interfere
in internal affairs.
What kind of peace will be i'm
posed upon us in the end?
"Pax Ga1lica? CA French peace?)
PAX Britannica? CA British
pax stelligera? Gan American
peace0
"Wel, no. Enough. Victorious
Italy, the most victorious of all ma
tions-becaunse victorious over her
self as we'll as over the enemy
shall have been her Alps and he;
sea a Roman peace. Enough. Smash
the loaded scales. If necessary VIC
shall face the new conspiracy as or
ardit-faced storm troops faced the
enemy--with a bomb in each hand
and a knife between our teeth. Il
is not possible for the treaty oil
Versailles to renew against US, un-
der another form, the infamy d
Campoformio.
The paramount question now is;
will that mixture of slaves Jugo
Slavs) try to perpetrate upon us the
same sort of swindle with regard tc
the coast and the islands which, with
the secret of avowed help of ar
allied nation, they practiced upon us
with regard to- the fleet we had con
quered
Ships are ships and land j:
land. A people does not abandon its
land even as 4 paid crew abandon;
its ship. AS Romans, as Italians
you prefer death-and a people who
call themselves Latins (the French)
want to help you die to make room
for the Croatians in the Loggia o.
the Venetian magistrates. Unfor'
tunately, there are people who hole
a like view within our gates az
we'll as on the other side of th'
Alps. 3
Given Everything.
AS far as / am concerned, | have
given everything and / am ready to-
day to sacrifice every friendship
every love, every convenience to oui
own cause. And like me, know /!
every fl hting man to the most mod
est of private soldiers. And l shall
be with you to the last-and yol
know what / mean by this promise
\ And wish all Italians were today
with us in resolute and opel
unanimity. / wish 1 could STAMP
out that attitude of beggar anC
adulator to raise the intrepid stan
dard of victorious people wht
wants to win and knows how. Thos,
who are not with us in this view ar,
condemning you to serve and II
4 perish. They want you to be til,
slaves of the slaves. They wan
to kill you and your hope. Faithful
Dalmatians! If the injustice is &C
complished. you will load YOU
boats with the remains of you
glorious ruins and you will put t,
sea with, them. And once upon til,
sea you will sink your relics ant
yourselves to meet under the wave
our dead, and thus in their compan,
you will no longer be serfs, Blu
free men among free men. Thus
will be said that the victory o
Italy was written on the water"