The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-07-09

1LCI1: NlCE1MOND, VA. 81
twenty years 'ago7 No; even the bandits
Of the mountains Of Italy and those OF
Sicily were not the pastlnnsters In Grim,
that those of our land were.
Everybody knows the Italian govcrn-
t,1c1t can land only such Of It's subjects
Tn the South as arc allowed to land at
Ellis Island In New York, and 1t Is folly
to say 1t Is trying to rid Itself OF Its
undesirable ~ citizens by foisting them
on the South. II Is already rid OF these
people and I think It only a kindness
on the governments part IN advising them
to come South to climate more like
their own sunny land, aud shows a de-
sire to help Its sons and daughters, which
Is most cotnmendnble, although they are
about to sever allegiance to the mother
country. and also to help build Tip tho
Southern States who are in the market
for new people. }
Mr.. Editor, have no objection to the
Yankees. as our friend Is pleased TO ca
them, coming here II they will conform
to ot,r customs; butt generally he will
not. He comes with n buster and hurrah,
that he knows 1t all, Is the great / ain,
Wise guy and we are Infants In world
anu WcaaCuu tcdCn MN no.
thing; but with the foreigner It is so
different. He comes here to learn He
has heard all his life OF the great Amer
lean land OF promise and would sell the
coat OF his back to make up his pas
sage money to come over, content only
to show clean bill OF health and full OF
hope and confidence that his strength will
initiate against the suspicion In the COM
missioner's mind that he might become IL
public charge. How can any one want
to refuse entrance to a people so full Of
hope, ambition and confidence they can
succeed In life?
1t would do the heart OF any patriotic
American good. though 1t is often pathetic
to see the awe and reverence in which the
aliens hold this country as they line up
IN the barge office. Though they often
cannot speak a word OF our tongue, their
faces light UP with Joy when the inter-
prefer tells them they have passed; what
horror depicted on their faces when they
are to be deportcd back to the miserles
of the old life. How can any one deny
this glorious land Of liberty and freedom
to those who CROSS three thousand weary
miles of waste to gain our shores? And
those that enter. 1t is like q dream to
them: 1t would be like heaven If they
could come South with welcome. Happy
they go. 3ngliEg few American coins
moro often copper and nickel than sill
yer and representing all their worldly
goods. their quaint garments kaleido-
scopic riot Of color peculiar to the
foreigner. Yet those men and women
adopt our customs and, in time, make
good citizens. and their children lose
accent and become Of us entirely. If they
do this in the North. how much more
roa 1N thn,, ol~
southern customs which are more like
their native ways, and how quickly they
would become our people?
Moreover, 1t Is cruel, a crime against
humanity to keep these people in the
North. crowded in the great cities where
their sunny natures are warped and
hardened by their hardships. No wonder
many of the boys become criminals, and
the innocent and unsuspecting girls meet
a fate worse than death. II is our crime
when we deny these people the Southland,
where under the balmy air and sunshine,
they and their children would blossom
like rose.
We cannot hold with any reason that
We arc better than the northern people.
And II the Italians are good enough for
them. they are certainly goo denough for
U.s. Why are we not willing to do by
olAiCt 90 We "Outu ildS lucIlla 40 ny
us? The Italians sprang from an illus
trious speople-a people of great. noble
and history-making deeds. Italy has her
George WashngtonFin Garibaldt, and an
Italian made 1t possible for us to be
what we are to-day. Do not we who are
rich owe her somethingTshe who
Is poor, and struggling with an
ever increasing population and con-
sequent added burdens-by taking some
Of her sons and daughters to build up
new homes in the West? Especially when
we want new people and those people
happen to be as good and honorable as
any people In the world? II we refuse
them. we go against the traditions of our
fathers, so ably upheld and defended by
the editor OF The Times-Dispatch. who
founded this country as an asylum for
the oppressed OF all nations-no one ma
ton or race was barred then. and If it
was right then, 1t is right now.
Let them come, Mr.. Editor; we want
them, kickers to the contrary. All great
movements are opposed at first. The
purchase Of the islands in the Orient and,
by some. the Panama Canal, and dire
disaster to the country was predicted, yet
show me the man who doubts the wis
dom fthose two acts, or but some added
pate who would part with either. There
can be no such thing as an Italian
problem that can have any analogy to
the negro problem. The Italian is white
man and Christian. and all white men
are welcome and equal in all respects in
this land which is Gods own country
u am not an Italian, but am
AMIGO DEGLIs 1TALIANI.
The Cotton Mill Industry in Dan
y vile.
Editor of The Times-Dispatch:
Sir.-About the first story told one In
connection with the cotton mill business
in any town engaged in that line OF
manufacturing Is that when General
Johnston surrendered in 1865, and the
different generals. colonies and other
commanding officers We're bidding fare
we'll to their commands, one old colonel,
more noted for his ingenuity III methods
OF attack than for his oratorlcal powers,
called his men together for the parting.
He had prepared carefully worded
speech. in which he had set forth the
trying conditions under which they had