Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-06-10
ITALIANS ASK NO FAvORS
Able 90 Take Care of Themselves
Father Crowley Thanked.
Editor Of the Democrat:


Dear Sir: Allow us through the col
umns of your paper to thank the Rev
7. NJ. Crowley for his kind words In
our behalf. and his contradiction of the
many false stories about our race.
There is In. this country a certain
part OF the American press-ignorant,
malignant, saturated with prejudices
and secondhand ideas-which, with al
most criminal obstinacy, is constantly
publishing unjust. ridiculous and in
famous articles against Italy and the
Italians. just as though the former
were the Boeotia of the European con-
tinent and the latter a horde of dirty.
ragged, rascally beggars.
Yet. If there be one nation above all
others that should speak, write and act
towards Italy with respect. reverence
and gratitude. not alone for the past,
but also and especially for the present,
1t Is this same America For the past,
for was 1t not an Italian who discov-
cred this country, redeemed it from
savagery and opened the road to civil
Iization3 For the present. because
Italy is the mother of electricity. from
which america derives it's Industrial
greatness. its numerous life commodi-
ties, its enormous wealth. its power in
/ home and foreign markets
| Did not Galyani discover animal cleo
! tricity, Volta the voltaic pile, Pacinotti
the true principle of the electric motor.
Ferraris mot. if you please, Nikola
| Tesla the piano magnetico rotante"
! by which electric energy can be trans
! mitted to any distance
/ Bitter frIIfhS those TQrhapc FOR nQF-
tain envious minds. but none the less
truths pure and simple Electricity is
an essentially italian. science and the
i last browning touch to its wonders
wireless telegraphy-ha been given to
the world by an Italian. Guglielmo
/ Marconi.
/ Perhaps it is not ountimely here to
call the attention of that press-which
dishonors its mission, and is dis
| grace to its profession-to few sound
| facts. and to observe that:
| Excepting the United States, Italy
is the only nation in the world which
is able to close its budget with sur
plus of several millions. Italy has. in
less than forty years of its deliverance
! from tyranny. created that which cost
to other nations hundreds of years of
| perservering preparation. of bloody
struggles, of gigantic expenses. of rev
| olutions and wars. Italy can point
! with legitimate pride to the increasing
physical and moral education of work
4 ingmen. to the progressive decrease of
| illiteracy. to the diminishing number
of criminals, to the moderate consuplp-
| ton Of alcoholics. to the thrifty habits
of laborers. to the absence of ruinous
| luxury among the middle classes, to
the extreme cautiousness of its fnan-
eiers, to the peaceful intervention of
the government in unavoidable con-
! fiicts between capital and labor. to the
predominance of moral principle in the
constitution of the family.
| The Italian legislation tends to pro-
| tect the physical integrity and morality
of marriage, the spirit of association,
the freedom of labor as a basis OF in
ternal peace and welfare: all of which
eloquently testify to the high grade of
civilization which the nation had
reached In the face of trying and adj
verse conditions and of bitter enmities
! famed by the execrabIe coalition OF
/ the Holy Alliance and reactionary Eu-
| rope. In politics. in art in science. In
morality. in everything pertaining to
civil progress and enlightenment Italy
cannot be considered inferior to any
! nation
j Those who judge the Italian people
/ upon the surface only. ignore the mex
J haustible depth of the national genius.
| the fecund resoluteness and persever-
| ance OF the race. the thinking ability
acquired by ages of political and re-
( ligious servitude. the secret Lissimu-
lating patience OF their working facul-
ties.
+ If Italy has. every year, an extraor-
| binary emigration. it is because she
i produces superabundant population
and being thus prolific, she shows her
self an eminently moral nation
And n thousands of Italians seek
| fortune in foreign country, they go
| there, not to beg nor to become OBJ
! jects' of public charity. not to spread
corruption and immortality nor to con-
spire against the laws and institutions
of the government which accords
/ them hospitality. but to labor for their
daily bread. They give the strength OF
their brawny arms. the sweat OF their
brow and often their ~very life blood;
those who employ. pay them-not al
ways. alas! fairly or justly-and they
are quits.
We need not seek the greatness Of
italy in the past, nor recall the immor-
/ taI glory of Rome. of the Comuni, or
/ the Renaissance: the italy OF to-day
can take care of herself and. asking as
/ sistance of none, can make and mould
/ her own future.
ITALIANS OF WATERBURY.