Evening star., 1925-10-31

In the very echo or 1OCdrnc, WIFI
it's assurances. of peace in Europe,
comes the voice of Mussolini demand
ing power, He talks not of men, who
are created equal, endowed by their
Creator with certain inalienable rights,
among which are life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness. He talks of how
the individual must SacrlnCe hlmSell
for the good of the state. In MS re-
cent SpeeCh in Milan he said that tas-
cisr1, ''intends to control the destiny OF
italy until oyerthrown by force. 1hlS
defiance was made on the thlrd ami
versarv of the forcible seizure OF pow
ar hv a man who had been q leading
socialist only few years ago, but
who has led the opposition to com
munism and socialism since he
achieved Dictatorship
YOU have lost your trump card,
Trotsky of the Russian Soviet told
the Italian socialists in 1919, When
Mussolini left the Socialist party 10
lead the bIaCk-shirted Fasclsts INTO
Rome to demand of the King the power
to govern Italy.
''Mussolini is the strong man VINO
would have led our party 10 victory,
mourned Lenin. Yet as soon as MUS
solini won the dictatorship he became
the leader of the opposition TO social
ism.
In Italy the opposition TO Fasclsm
consists of three parties.
The first is the Socialist party, IN
Guiding the communists. they had
gained control OF all industries, fac-
tories and business of the country, but
the government let them hang them
selves with their own rope by per
hitting them to discover for them
selves their inCapacity 10 do business
without capital, organization or mar
kets. After a few weeks OF futile ef-
fort the communists and socialists
were glad to surrender their captured
factories. when the FasciStS made the
peaceful conquest of Rome three
years ago.
There the Fascists met the Popular
People's Christian parity, led by the
clericals of the Catholic Church, who
depended on hopes of uniting moral
support of Catholics all over the world.
Their ''moral support" proved to be
confined largely to sympathy with
church ideas. but with little tangible
aid for the political upbuildlng OF Italy
The third opposition came from
Freemasons, who, departing from the
fundamental principles of Masonry as
known in America, opposed the church
and the socialists. but had no sympa-
thy with the Fascist proletariat. The
bitterest opposition in the last three
years has come from the Italian Free
masons, for they have been without
constructive policies and have centered
in opposing the spirit Of nationaism.
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The secretary general of the Fascist
Council of Eighteen is Farinacci, who
leads the fight against the other op-
ponentS of FaScism, the F'reemaSonS.
Strange political party, the Free
masons, who in America are no more
likely to be counted as political than
is the Y. NJ. c. a. or the Independent
Order of odd Fellows.
lust as MuSsolini iS accused of
having deserted the socialists, so his
secretary general of the Fascist Coun-
cil-whose office may be ikened to
that of our Secretary of State-is a
former F'reemason, bound by the
usual oaths of memberships. Secre-
tary Farinacci confesses that he was
n Mason. but his defense is that he
ioined in order to be in a position to
help force the King to enter the
World War, though his opponents
allege that the date of his joining
was later than that of Italy's enter
ing into hostilities, hence his defense
is void.
These personal facts of history in
dicate the bitterness Of the con-
troversies raging in Italy during the
last three years, following Mus
solinis "peaceable conquest"
In a recent article by Count An
tonic Cippico, Senator, he deprecated
the prevailing idea that Fascism is
dependent upon force. He declared
"the Mussolini regime is not one of
dictatorship, although it has been too
many times so misrepresented abroad.
Very few countries enjoy such free
dom as the Italy of today"
Count Cippico defends the recent
expulsion of an American newspaper
correspondent by asserting that he
was carrying on d deliberate cam