Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1870-04-15
From the Y. z. Mercantile Journal, April {
Italian Labor in New York.

1tditdH IaUOr III Now lVFk. =
One of the most able and enter
prising of the journals published in
the city of New York, on behalf of
the foreign nationalities among us,
the Eco d d'Itulia,--lias, very re-
Gently uttered note Of alarm con-
'cerning the Italian labor in this me-
tropolis; and since much of the lat
ter is just what many Of our in
terror towns and cities need to a
greater or less extent, the facts stat
ed will be interesting to many of
our readers, especially throughout
! the South and West.
The Eco, We regret to observe
makes tn. existing state of things a
text from which to preach against
Italian immigration to the United
States, whereas it should, we think,
rather explain the causes of the tenn
porary stagnation that has prevail
ed in business here. and point out
to the new corners the fields of ac-
tivity that lie beyond our over
crowded seaport. That it should
seek to abate the extraYagant ex-
pectations with which so many EN-
bark for this country, is well enough
but we must add our opinion that
those who come with reasonable
views, and who, on landing here,
make haste to seek either the right
opening elsewhere for their peculiar
kind of employment, or for such
employment as they can get, even
if it be not the same as that to
which they have been accustomed
at home, will succeed.
4 ArtiZans and mechanics of all
kinds necessarily enjoy peculiar ad-
vantages, but there are opportuni-
| ties for house servants and agricul-
tural laborers, too. We can hardly
call to mind any class, in fine, who
cannot procure sufficient occupation
to yield food and shelter. excepting g
those whose false pride prevents
their taking hold Of the first respec.
table chance that offers.
But the editor of the Eco has 9
discouraging account to give of his
personal experience among his new
ly arrived countrymen. He says
that he is daily called upon in his
: Office by Italians, young and old
who were in civil professions home
Some of them were engineers, ,archi
tects, surveyors, scho oo1masters, dry
goods clerks, students, public em
ployees. whose natural intelligence
: at once reveals to them the actua
condition of difficulty into which
they have faHen, by landing her.
without anything provided or mark
ed out for them, beforehand.
At the same time, there are hun
r dreds of Italians in this city, many
; of whom, too, are old residents, wht
are entirely out of work, and th,
Eco mentions, as an illustration o
their desperate circumstances, th,
fact that, in a single week. half ;
Y dozen young men who had fled from
military conscription in their nativ,
Italy, were compelled to enlist as U
S. soldiers, here
4 b. AHS otucSO- liStiltclS, uIuU
makers, and musical instrumen
: makers, are all deficient in employ
ment. and these branches are con
siderably recruited by Italians
Hat-makers and stone masons com
plain bitterly, and the poor Italian
women have not even the paltry re
sort Of the needle, there being, som,
: OF our local journals have alleged
o many Thousand expert sempstres Sc
now unimployed in this city. =.
Among the Italians thus left near
A " destitute in our midst, are re- fir
, cd scholars, skillful artists, exper
!. fenced jurists, instructors of bot
T. sexes. and even theologians. Their
K are also many scientific cultivator
e of the vine, flowers, and fruit; sill
r. and olive growers; winners an
landscape gardeners. In fine, tller
. is scarcely any department of prat
e tical knowledge, useful in a ne
!. country, that has not it's represent;
tive among these people. More
e over, as class, they are industr
u GUS, sober, and reliable, with all th
f. peculiar vivacity of action and r.
:. pidity of comprehension and adapt;
II .tion that has ever distinguishe
their race. Indeed, it may be safel
Y affirmed that a large proportion G
Y the people of Italian stock, now lal
is gushing in New York city, are pr
e. cisely the men most earnestly wan
t. ed, ut this moment, in many distric
i. of the South and West, where ne
A. enterprises in cultivation call for e,
r. pert trained hands, and the adorl
[e ment of fresh cities springing 3,
er almost by magic in the far lands b
the Missouri call for the a
l of decorative art, atmoderate price
= We hope that the remarks y
r have made on this subject may a
ed tract special attention, and elie
- such action in behalf Of a deservir
ce class of immigrants, as will pro
not only relief to them, but be
e tit to the country. ~
,g General Spinner on National! Ban
e. and the Funding Bill.
n WASHINGTON; April 3,-Treasur