Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-11-07


 ITALIAN DEMOCRATIC RALLY. Yesterday wasea banner day with the Italian democrats of Waterbury, and they knew it, for almost every one of them crowded into the auditorium and listened to addresses on the na- | ional question for over two hours without showing any signs of tiring of the subject. The Italian Marine band rendered several selections and kept the audience interested until the ora tors showed up.
 Luigi Ruggiero presided and he fill 1 ed the bill in very creditable man. | ner, speaking in English and Italian, just as he thought the occasion called for an explanation in both tongues.
 Attorney F. r. Guilfoile was the first speaker aud although he didn't speak in the language of sunny Italy, everybody appeared to catch on and his remarks were received with tre- mendous applause. MT Guilfoile treat ed his subject in m admirable manner and gave his Italian friends good ar l gument in support of his contention that if the Italians as we'll as other working people want to do what is best for themselves and their families l they will rally round the standard bearer of democracy, Alton B. Parker, i, and vote the whole ticket.
 Mir Guilfoile was followed by Ben jamin Witkowslzi, who talked interest ingiy on "Americanism."
 Attorney Louis Casabona of l Springfield, Mass, was the first speak CT who talked in the mother tongue 1 from the start to finish, and it was in teresting to see the audience lean for ward to hear him. MT Casabona said i in part:
 T am here tonight to fire my last shot in this remarkable campaign, 1 and when tomorrow, I shall return to my state 1t will be with heart full of 1 hope that the people of Connecticut will on next Tuesday elect the demo- cratic ticket from top to bottom.
 "I am glad and happy to address such large audience of Italians, be- cause it gives me the opportunity to dis cuss with you the issues involved in this campaign, issues which are para mount, and of interest to every man, to every patriot whether he be born in this country or somewhere else.
 "We have indeed reached the part ing of the way. Tn this campaign the paramount question is not only the | l to the polls and exercise our duty as citizens simply because the republican party claims to be the purveyor of na- tional prosperity; no, there is involved in this campaign something more I loftier than the mere question of bread and butter. We must decide whether or not this country will con tinue to remain country where hb- eral institutions can exist, or whether we have to look forward to a dispotic l government as the one that has com 1 pelled us to leave our native land.
 Make no mistakes, my friends. If the republican party is permitted to carry out the policies to which it's leaders have pledged it during the ! last few years, the United States of I America will be republic in name ealv. aud not in fact. It is said that history repeats itself. There is no saying truer than this. We Italians ought to know some history of our own country. We ought to know, for j instance, that the fall of Rome was due to conditions, political and social, just like those that exist to-day in this country. As soon as Rome denied to all her citizens equal rights under the law, the process of decay began, and Rome was Rome no longer.
 We came to this country because we believed i'll the American theory that no man, politically speaking, was
 better than another; that our govern. ors were simply our servants and not our makers; that freedom for me and for you would also mean freedom to every man living under our national flag. But, may ask you, What has become of that theory and that prin- I cipleT We have to-day men who while advocating the election of Theo- dore Roosevelt are not ashamed of stating publicly that that glorious document called the Declaration of 1 Independence, written by the immor- l tai Thomas Jefferson, is nothing more and nothing less than 'glittering gener. alities.'
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