La libera parola. [volume] (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1918-1969, 1920-03-21
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ther be conceivable with The
dignity, The nobless and The
grandeur of the highest Legi-
slative Body, in which YOU hap
pen to detaiu a seat, that low.
trivial, vulgar tcrminOIOgy YOU
employed in discussing the
FiHme question. ON last Salm-
day February the twenty eight
Ammo Domini 1920.
Those few dagocs. - who
insist ON the, so hystrionicalIy
declaimed; principle Of self
determination with that other
great dago known. all the world
around, with the immortal ma
me of Gabrielle D'AnnunZio. -.
naivcly believed in the void
words of your Master. forget
ing that Demagogy is not De
mocracy.
There is not fault. at all. to the
Dagoes COR the Americans of
yesterday, as You. with oppor-
tunism of your own, called
them, while fighting with the
Yankee Division) if they. logi-
cally, refuse to yield to the self
appointed Dictator of the world
- for they remember, perhaps.
much better than you do the
ethical principles adopted by
your Master i'm his acrobauc
political ability Of ante belIum
and post belIum.
] feel sure. measuring you by
your own expressions, used so
irreverenlly Of the solcmnity of
your office and the uobleness
of the Assembly, where You are
supposed to represent a oiViliz-
ed State, you, never. got the
blessing Of classical educa-
tiou.
. You will apprehend that those
men. YOU called dagoes. are di-
rect descendants from the La
Tins who ruled the World.
/ Now, the Latins from La
lium the most Italian Province
|of Rome) are exactly - i'm the
light of History. not, certainly,
.Or your stories. OF Philology
and Geography. - solely. pro-
perry and exclusively your de
sPised and hated dagOes.
Had You, ever, got an ordina-
Try Classical education, undoub
lely, you would have known
that The ancient ROmae Patrcs
Gonscripli, or Senators, We're
nothing else but the Ancestors
|of those dagoes you despise ad
minimize, against any senti-
Imcnt of deCenoy, equity and
social Justice.
| And those Senators of Rome.
keep This in your mind, Senator
Shield. or PatercuIe Conscrip-
te, were declared, by an Am
Ibassador to the Roman Senate,
worthy of belonging, not only,
to an Assembly of great Legis-
lators, but, surely, to a Council
of Gods.
o tempora, o mores! What a
comparison between the So
emn dignity Of an ancient Dago
Senator and a, supposed to be,
refined, intelligent and very e.
ducated Senator from Tennes-
see...-
On account of historical sim
cerily. ! would dare to advise
you to make an amendment to
the American history, changing
, those hateful denominations of
America, Columbia and, even
! that christian name of yours,
: all Dagos names, with some In
dian names of PocahOntas OF
> Iroquois: surely, it would seen
+, and be more appropriate to any
senator who disgraces the mos
honorable Body with those
:" words you, so naturally anC
nstinctively pronounce.
The American citizens of TIA
liam birth, reminding that nau
P eous episode of your senatorial
y words. will repeat to you thi
teaching: Civilization is a wa
Of light with darkness; of trutI
6 with faIsehood, of the illumi
mated intellect and the rectif1et
}, heart with the barbarism o
ignorance and the a7imalism o
e the savage.
- Frankly
81 Y. T.. CINQUEGBAN.
g Providence. r.. l., March 1926