La libera parola. [volume] (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1918-1969, 1919-07-26

AIllGIlCdu uGl ~ OII6llJe Ill6Se,
mel Suo testo inglese, perche i
nostri lettori possano metterlo
sotto il muse del noStri avversa-
II, quanto ha detto, il poeta-sol-
dato Gabrielle d'Annunzio, pro-
posito della Lega dele Nazioni:
ROME, July 4.-On the fate
full evening in April, when Italy
declared war, | said:
United we shall win. Forw-
ardw
These same words | repeat to-
day, when forty millions of TIA
lians, united in spirit and firm
ness of purpose, are watching for
Italy's due.
Italy has grown into a nigh
ty giant overnight. A great light
shines on her forehead-the on
ly ray of clear light in the sudden
darkening of justice. l repeat
that Italy alone is great to-day;
that only Italy is pure.
What we miStook for great
ness in others has turned out to
be nothing more than pretense
and hypocrisy. Nothing but cow
ardly pretenses surround the
peninsula.
But the hatred that foments
all around us is merely the mean
resentment Of the weak and
stricken towards the Vigor of
Italy's wholesome youth. We ha-
We carried our cross. We have
now replanted a newer, a taller
staff for our flag, which is un-
furled upon the wave Of our pas
sionate love-it is the most beau
tiful in the world.
And why? Before whom shO-
uld we now haul it down? Do l
see any great Power-great in
the spiritual sense-lined up ag-
ainst us to-day? l see only a
crowd of big, petty merchants,
big petty shylocks, big petty CO.
unterfeiters.
German-American Bankers
Behind 1t.
History repeats itself. Four
years ago, across the green-clo-
thed table, we were confronted
by a bland, amiable and aged ex-
Chancellor (von Buelow). Across
another table, equally green-clo-
thed, we are to-day confronted
by another face.
1t is a face that reminds one of
horses head. This "boss" is
thanked by two badly disguised,
badly mad-up scare-crows label
led: Equity" and Justice"
But we know that a German
American banker, faithless and
double-faced, is hidden behind
each Of them; for instance, Jo-
ham Schiff, of Frankfort, OF
Warburg, Of Hamburg.
Against the miscevious intri-
gues of this new triumvirate
Italy must dare all.
The American Congress, impo-
tent against Russia, is all the
more impotent against victo-
rious nation-the most victo-
rious of all nations.
l should say, rather, against
the savior of all nations-for
that is Italy.
Italy to-day is rising united
I for its traditions, for rights, the
rights of its people, and for its
faith, religiously kept to those
who are now trying to reduce
the alliance to the level of a sha-
| meless bargain.
Will the triumVirate pronunce
sentence? Whatever they may
say, wherever they may speak,
their voice has the unmistakable
ring of coined gold Their very
throats are choking with gold,
their very teeth are filled with
it. Gold will settle them.
They Seek Only the SpOils.
We are no longer their dupes.
Their voice is raised only to-
quarrel over the worlds doom
to dispute over the freedom of
/ the seas-to trade and barter
over the question of spoils; to
sell bloodless Belgium; to free
Germany of the strangling bloc
kade in order to profit from Ger
many's hunger; to bargain about
Africa, Asia, and 0ceania; to inn