The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-07-30
THE IrAL1AAs IN soUrn AMERICA.
Their innuenes In Brasil. the Argentine Re-
pubfo md Ururuay-It IL OF JonT stand
inr-Thsy are the Tuukees OF South
Thcre-fsnrIhuIhs nj pAt sail

There-enribnidi ms Their Patron saint.
MoNTEv1DEo. July 1.-The second Of June 10
q saints day with the Italians OF the New
World as well rs OF the Old. The saint whom 1t
commentaries has not yet been cnnonized by
tho Church. and. in view OF tho able ad.
monitons addressed by Leo XII H. to tho French
anti-republican Bishops. 1t may be cafe to
assume that he never will be canonized. But
1t Is not too much to say that at the present
time no Italian saint in the calendar is in
voked with such faith and favor by the masses
OF his countrymen on the banks OF the Lo
Plata and the Parana, Of the Tiber and the Poas
san Giuseppe Garibaldi. Doubtless l might
say rs much OF tho Italians who dwell on the
banks OF the Hudson and the Mississippi. But
though the italian i'm migration into the
United States has begun Of late years to exert
distinct and Improbable influence upon the
industries, upon the commerce. and perhaps
upon the politics also OF the great republic
the true Italy OF the New World Is to be found
not In the northern. but in the southern half
OF the American continent. There are historl-
cal, climatic. social. and religious reasons for
TINS. Tho very name OF America, OF course.
10 Italian. and tho bold navlgators who first
carried tho flag OF England as we'll as the flag
OF Spain across tho Atlantic. we're Italians. II
the Chicago Exhibition Is really m cant to cee-
brate the discovery OF the western hemis-
rhcro Italy is entitled to the first place at
that Gargnntuan banquet OF the nations.
But, down to the very eve OF our national
Independence. tho civilized world knew little
and c,rej lass about tho urdsor .rd tho Mic.
sissinni ,bo c-n,t I.Ln. ,n5 ~, luo.,h.ni.o
When man tnIk md writ, -, "Arar,co - now
and of the "Araericans" they com monty mean
tho United States. OF which. not so very long
ago. a British philosopher much worshipped
in New England, the Inte Mr.. CARLYLE. was
good enough to observe that he thou ght them
chiefly noteworthy as hayo- produced "many
millions OF the greatest bores ever known In
the world" But when mon smoke OF America
and tho Americans In tn, middle of the last
century. they meant Mexico and Guatemala.
Peru and BRAZIL. tho yiccroyaltios and Can
taincies- General over which Catholic Spain
and Catholic Portugal held sway, from tho
shores OF tho Mexican Gulf TO the Pacific. and
from California to pa.aponiu This was the
| America" of tho Catholi, rnces and Of the
Mediterranean States, Naturally. thereforo.
when the domination OF Spnin anu por.
| tugil came to nm end in tho Now World
during the first quarter OF the current century.
and with that domination the exclusive com
| mprcial system which Ind closed the norts OF
America" against all flags and suhiects OF
other powers, the attention OF tho Catholic
and Mediterranean States was drawn away
|
| Protestant. and anti pathetic along the north
| ern horizon, to the Spanish and portucuese
America" lying warm and bright in the
sunshine Of the tropics. and allurinE with all
the traditions of Catholic conquest and Medi-
| terranean adventure.
| For one Italian who went to seek fortune or
a new home in the United States during the
three decades which followed the restoration
of peace in Europe in 1915. at least a hundred
went to Mexico. to Brazil. and to the regions
now known as Uruguay and the Argen-
tines. A great majority OF these Ital-
ians went to the New World from the
seacoast and the mountains OF Liguria, from
Genoa from Piedmont and from Lomhsrdo-
| Ncnetia To say this Is to say that they were
emigrnnts certain to succeed and to plant
their race In tho country OF their choice; in
dustrious. thrifty. Intelligent. energetic, con-
tent with small gains il those gains were con-
slant and continuous. Their descendants are
| to be found to-day throughout the great Bra
lillian province. now become a State. and not
unlikely to become n nation" Of Rio Grande
do Sui. and throughout the adjacent Spanish
| American States OF Uruguay and OF Entire Rios.
| Wherever found. they are prosperous for the
most part above their ne!ghbors OF 1berian
| or OF Lusitanian blood. For the most part. too.
they arc quiet. orderly people. holding them-
|
INSCRIPTIONS politics OF the land: temperate
in their habits. simple In their tastes. ener-
Getic and industrious.
Tho revolution OF 1919 In Europe was
followed. as we know by widespread
movement OF emigration to tho Now
World The great tide Of emigrants" to
tho United States nbout which we hear 80
much land yct SO little to tho purposo) really
beam at that time. II You take tho humble,
OF immigrants from italy into tho United
States in 1890 as givon by that remarkabl d
culinary artist, Mr.. Porter, you will nnd that
eig Int Years Of tho Immigration assigned 70
1890 would have sunlceI to bring into the
United Statos all the Italians recorded by tho
census as coming into thcm during the sew
cnty years from 1921 to 1890 According t
Mr.. Porters census. and speaking roughly.
tho Italian element In the United States
amounts to about two thirds OF per cent OF
the population. According to tho best sta.
tistics accessible in Buenos Ayres the