Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-11-25 | Page 2 | Calls on American

Calls on America. "I call with my whole son! upon the Ijreat American public to help us settle the thorny question of Kiume. The latest program of Foreign Minister Tittoni is so very moderate that it ought to be accepted. ac-cepted. We absolutely can yield no further. fur-ther. "1 have alweys felt sincere friendship for America, and claim that America should be on our side should help us escape f rom this painful situation. 1 have addressed myself personally to President Presi-dent Wilson as a friend. I address the American nation as friends. Do not let the Italian people have the hateful feeling that the great American democracy opposes op-poses what is Just. As the Adriatic question ques-tion may cause a new and violent conflict. con-flict. Italy desires to settle it as quickly as possible. "As I said before, Italy does not desire de-sire further wars. Even with the Jugoslavs Jugo-slavs she wishes to have friendly relations. rela-tions. They are' our neighbors and must, therefore, both In their own interests and ours, share in our civilization. "No country perhaps has greater courage cour-age than Italy in enduring great sacrifices. Therefore, wo shall reduce all our expenses. ex-penses. In a few days 2,000,000 Lire of new taxation is to be imposed, and we shall launch a loan destined to decrease our paper currency. Add to this the admirable ad-mirable power of our people to work, and if America will have confidence in us and 'provide us with raw materials on credit, we will soon pull ourselves together; to-gether; soon our finances will recover and, unless some new unpropltlous event Shall, occur, we will be the first country of Europe to put our financed into satisfactory satisfac-tory shape."