The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1888-08-11

"Let MS believe that pure thoughts, brave
words and generous deeds can never die;
let us believe that they bear fruit and add
forever to the well-being Of the human race;
that a self-denying life increases the moral
wealth of men and gives us the assurance
that the future cii be grander than The
past"
1t is safe 10 say that over no other man
of the cenlurv haye the most pronounced
agnostiC and the eminent orthodox clergy
man stood to do mortuary honors. Almost
every grade of society and every shade of
religious belief assembled to do honor to
the deceased. His cremation on the same
afternoon returned to their original ele-
ments all that was mortal of Courtlandt
Palmer.
All the week we haYe been wrestling
with the Italian problem, and we are now
confronted with the startling fact that
there are $4,000 of them in the city of New
York alone, and over 100000 in the United
States. 1t is now clearly. demonstrated
that the great body of these are assisted
immigrants, and that their relation with
the bosses who import them is virtually
that of master and slave, They hive to-
gether, fifteen or twenty in single room,
men, women and children, all packed in,
till the health authorities have been COM
PEELED to interfere to prevent a pestilence.
A band of rascally Italian spectators haye
leagued with certain steamship companies
i
from whom they received ten dollars head
for each'immigrant; then when the immi-
grant arrived here they turned around and
robbed him of his wages as soon as he got
work, and this infamous traffic has been
going on for years. By fraudulent swearing
whole gangs of them that could not speak
word of our language have been made ci5i
zens of the United States, and the boss
contracted TO vote them in grags, and this
is the materal that decides our elections.
There are only 10000 Cinnamon in the
United States, and there never has been
since 1850 more than 2f1 900 all told. Yet
we were SO fearful that John was going TO
gobble us up that we passed the most
stingent laws to keep him out. John has
never given us the trouble that these
Italians have. The great body of them
look like brigands, and if they are not
they have evidently mistaken their profess
sion. Even the smallest boy goes with a
stilleto in his boot, if he has any, and if not
he stuffs it down his back. Stabbing and
murders appear TO be their faYorite past
time, and scarcely week goes by that does
not hear of an attempted assassination.
Mrs. Cignarale, whose death sentence has
just been commuted to Imprisonment for
life, shot down her husband in open day,
after taking lessons from her loYer how 10
handle pistol and kill HIM. Andre, her
loyer, persuading her that there was no
punishment for killing husband here in
the United States. While there are
numbers of Italians here holding high
social, mercantile and financial positions,
, there is no denying it that the great body
of them are disgustingly filthy and brulally
ignorant. Wherever gangs of them work
together they usually become terror tc
the neighborhood, and the serious question
is forced upon us now: "What are yor
going to do about it?" A Congressional
Committee has been sitting here all the
week, and daylight is being let into the
crookedness of the Italian Padrones. But
here they are. They must be fed and they
must be housed, and it may startle those
who are opposed to cheap labor to learr
that these immigrants can live like Nabob!
4 l1,,t txr-f fixa dau UUa x,;n hou
] to put up the bars and keep them out az
. we did to the Cinnamon, or if we would ado
+ another Y, 900 to the 900 we now have
in New York, the Americans about here
+. will have 10 seek refuge in Rome, Naples
!. and Palermo, for America will no longer bt
7; an abiding place for them. Already the!
d have possession of all the fruit-stands anC
I boot black stands in New York; they con
i troll the hand organ business and do nine
tenths of the street sweeping. What is il
e store for us from this Latin deluge we know
d not, but in the calamity which threatens u
IS we feel like crying OUT Save us, oh saw
g us, from Julius Caesar, Marc Antony
Brutus, Cassius, Cignarali, Abrutzzi, ant
all the rest, for if you don't we're don
for.
Brother Harrison still continues his tri
umphant march on the citidels of sin; bu
n l record it with grief that the devil, takin.
II advantage Of Brother Harrison's engage
n ment with the brokers, has made descen
# on Zion's Colored Church in Brooklyn
AZ which nearly proved its ruin. Last weel
D the church had picnic They too
p several large barges and a towboats an
Z went up the river and now that the DANCE
,e is past we consider il mercy of Providenc
N that one half the congregation was nc
= utterly destroyed. The party got off a
o. right, about six hundred strong, and the
ar had laid themselves out for big days ell
ID joyment; but the hawser was scarcely cas-
g of from the wharf when it became eviden
al that Satan was on board in propria pei
O. sonne, bent on mischief. A black toug
10 on the lower deck drew profane pack {
,e cards and challenged any of the lockers o
e. to little game of draw-poker with fit
,d cents ante. Another laid down swei
f. cloth aud started in business. A thir
n amused the crowd with three-card mont,
We while the fourth assured the assemble
es crowd that there was not one of them coul
r. tell where the little joker was. Deaco
is Baldwin and Trustee johnson tried to ste
ly them, but one half of a ripe water-melo
ly planted rudely on the top OF Brothe Bal,
es wins head neapacltated him from furth'
a expostulation, and plaster under the ia
Mt made Trustee johnson think of the eartl
H. quake at Charleston. In less time than
ut takes to tell it the air was alive with razo
e. and beer glasses flew in every direction
he There was only one policeman ON the boz
st and they chased him into the pilot hous
lb Later on one of the brethren got ashore /
k a small boat and telegraphed for the polio