Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-11-04
The ITALIANS.
BY Signor Fred Bellondi.

Scion, the great Grecian legislator,
said that the Italian is the best cti-
zen.
The best government is that under
which an offence against one is con-
sldered an offence against all. The
italian has an open soul; he does not
want peace for lucre or for his profit.
He fights against every injustice even
though he lose all. lie will defend
an injured person even though that
person be stranger or foreigner never
before known or met. He does not
humble himself to the victor and is
not easily discouraged. He manfests
hate and love: in hate and love he is
invincible, but he never descends to
c0wardice. He forgives if deceived in
his business, but never if insulted in
his honor.
The renegade Italians are knaves
without conscience. They have all
faces under the same cap. Fornica-
tors, robbers, spies more than Cain
hated Abel, they hate their Italian
brethren.
Foreign dominions always used
such rabble and many historical facts
show that in Venice, for instance, the
Austrian often seemed an angel in
comparison with the renegade italian.
In all other nations foreigners can
mix with the native population but
never could foreigner adapt himself
to the italian nation.
The italian never endured long
servitude; a foreign master never
could put his root in Italy. He could
be supported by the rabble, but true
Italian cannot endure foreign rule.
a foreigner never can eyangeliZe Italy.
Not only Italians say this, but the
best educated Americans, German
English and French. This can be
proven by facts and statistics. How
ever, ii is difficult also for an Italian
to- evangelize his fellowmen, because
the rock Of ndtferentism is too hard.
The priests in Italy, generally speak
ing, preached the religion of the
decima.
The number of Italian emigra-
ton stands above all others. Last
year $4,000 Italians came to this
country. And why do they come here
while they know that there is no fair
err land than Italy: There the fields
give four or five crops of hay: the rice
fields are crowded with heavy ears:
the clover is like a blOssoming thicket.
the corn fields like canebrakes. The
whole land is of marvellous fertility,
and still the population is poor. This
is an amazing problem. And all
know that the Italian farmers are for
instance the greatest diggers of the
ground that there are in the world.
The principal cause of poverty is the
excessive taXation-u with which the
land is burdened. What prosperity,
what spirit of enterprise, what prog
ress is possible in a country where the
soil is taxed 33 per cent of it's net
income? Speaking of the buildings
on which, owing to over valuation,
the owner sometimes pays as high as
80 or 60 per cent of what he receives
in rent. That is not tax but plumber
on the soil. Add to this usury, still
very prevalent. understanding the
creation of national banks, and the
selfish combinations of trusts and
capitalists.
The peasant had not become deSir-
Gus of the overthrow of the old regi-
me: he had not been reached by the
republican propaganda of the kazzini-
ans; he had remained quite Indifferent
to his political rights: but for the
last 20 years he has been more and
more interested in that which social
ism breaches. in the elementary form
adapted to his mental condition: You
have nothing: they have everything:
take their place.