New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-07-03
ITALIANS In THE SOUTH.
n,;,;ng ont Negro Labor and I'M
gro1ing Waste Lands.
1,rv > CspeciaD.-How the

1850 July CSpeciaD.--How the Italian is
b' Ting the negro OF the South and improving
srpP- -. regarded practically worthless
amos 9,-respondence printed this week in The
.oTth - .r-ers' Record" TWO interviews are given
Nah@-"..t an American, who represents the old
one ,,erlers and the other with an Italian
tins ks from the point OF view Of the immi-
VIZ - re correspOndence is from Independence.
gT~N-' 70 Italians established settlement half
core years ago. - -,..o.,... -....- .,.,.,..
ia '.--,tioa from the Mediterranean. c. l..
TIE - q the leading citizens OF Independence.
says: ..,.,, =, ,,,. :. 80
ND tie own 10Y - 10 80 - an acre .nat are nov, now
seA1s 6ti acres sold twenty-five years ago for
:Ia. ana %ls SO -C3 The assessed value of lands
~ acre. nersI has been doubled in the last four
year Fcyel0pInent. The answer must be the Ital-
q c Migration that has come here and improved
me ma ios!ty OF farmers have done away with
negro labor Why Because the negroes ,a Are
is sueegss' - knows II mus come out OF the
s-ognd he always at work wheh ms "oIh IS
nse t ,,szfior OF his desra bty as citizen Is
IN llo ask4d can say thai thus far il our twelve
sfte,5 Years experience with Italians they have
g. -i- Ibis AT the stores meet their paper
tfe banks when due and often before. 90 hot
think there is case on record In this parish where
-. S-are las had TO prosecute them for crime or
T1i=icraeauor and that is saying great deaI When
a. consider Ih.t there 80 or 80 families living
her aI.d every berry season there are probably
fye hundred more who come 10 assist III harvest
II ,aa s,eak from experience. and say that thus
far 1 have found them good neighbors and good
tenants They are .ruGdl anu Iil 1 anu
AMEN working as tenants They are always willing
men, aud cheaper than the negro labor Of to-day.
til, wants a dollar = day Tor a IlsIi do!itI worth
ihe s.o.e man With lf the negro Afer they arr
f1a they q-g 10 iyeG
ana live better and spend more money as their
means justify. hey are generally speaking. clean
'!Ttaiians are capable OF Improvement in many
vsvs which is not the with the negro; and,
as far as ] know here they have conducted them
selves in a moral law-abidEg way. l am. OF
ence We have had with thHm. As fruit and truck
growers me VII ne h'-fd 10 PeaI' ana see no
reason why they cannot be used 10 advantage Tor
0' Ias2s are not hard TO teach as rule They
want make money. which Is their sole object.
gni they Try follow Instructions. and il is in
,oo This Immediate section would never have been
what il is IN short time without the Italian
II E- = - ,f,irl- +l'y, can ~rale iiI-ir@ a., te6
acres OF land and have $1,000 they will try it. and
nTl fi1 e ron which IbeT ear derive Iiveii
hood. and have nome. besides. Numbers Of them
hYe settled here on ten acre plots and madr llY-
ing and saved up money. Notwithstanding the fact
them peaceful, law-abiding citizens without the
dreaded stiletto.
George EIlessi, az italian farmer, says:
In another generation. when my children speak
the English language and own good homes, why
should they not be as good Americans you are,
whose forofathers came from ireland. or some one
else VINO spTang away from any Of the other ma
tons? The. say an Italian doesn't spend any
money. An Italian comes this country without
anything. and he doesn't spend anything until he
makes II. The first thing he wants TO do is to
buy home The negro rarely owns a home or
really cares for one, and spends a dollar a day
while ne is only making 10 cents. and sooner
later goes 20 prison. while the Italian practically
lives in prison tOr three four years and spends
nothing. and then buys a home. An Italian farmer
with a home paid for and a few hundred dollars in
the bank viii spend money just like any one else
4 few q the older ones, with commemorate love
Zo- the place Of their birth, 10 the old coun-
~ 70 spend their old age and die amid the scenes
a their childhood, but their and daughters re
main in their American homes. where life presents
80 many attractive possibilities. and rear large
families Of thoroughly Americanized citizens.