The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-11-22

and found it very satisfactory. Indeed
it is the success of Louisiana with TIA
Ian labor which has made Mr. Scott
so eager to adopt the same labor for
his own State
There are probably $4,000 italians in
Louisiana, and all are doing well. When
the Duke Of Aosta on his recent visit
to New Orleans gave $4,000 to the TIA
liam poor Of the city, the money was
returned to him by the italian Consul
and the Italian societies with the in
formation that there was not an Italian
in New Orleans who needed assistance.
The Italian can get work the day he
lands here. and he begins saving money
the first week At their arrival TIA
lians usually go to work on sugar plan
tations, where they are rapidly dis
placing the negroes, proving more effi-
cient in every respect.
In eight Or ten years they have saved
enough to go into business or to buy
a farm. For miles around New Or
leans they are going into the truck
farming business and are prospecting.
In New Orleans they have crowded
into nearly every line of industry, and
into every profession.
In the cane fields the Italian has
shown himself a good worker. A ira
di;ion comes from slavery days that
the negro hand is more prehensile than
that of the whites and is better suited
for cotton picking. and also that there
is some bond of sympathy between the
negro and the mule. which enables the
negro to handle mule better than a
white man can. The Italian mas ols'
proved that tradition.
For the last few years the Italians
have been pouring into the cotton coun-
try and into Mississippi through the
Yazoo delta Shall this immigration be
continued. encouraged and extended?
This is the question which the voters
of Mississippi viii be asked 70 pass on.
Mr.. Scott strongly advocates this i'm
migration, pointing TO the success OF
Louisiana, formerly a negro State, out
now with a white majority which is
growing larger every day. The Italian
viii supply the deficiency Of labor in
Mississippi and enable it TO develop its
resources He will take the place Of
the departing or degenerating negro, and
he will help to solve the race problem
by getting rid of the negro majority
and making Mississippi white state.
The arguments on the other side are
mainly those Of prejudice The white
Of Mississippi is probably
the most purely Anglo-Saxon in this
country and there prevails something
Of the old Know Nothing prejudice
against this heretofore unknown Latin
race.
There are several specific complaints
The italian in 1905 aroused much
prejudice against himself as being the
chief means Of transporting yellow
fever through Louisiana and Mlssls-
sippi- Again. ii has been argued that
the italian. because he Is a competitor
with the negro working by his side in
the fields on terms OF equality may
-raternize with the blacks and that
here may arise race Of Latin negroes
or mulatto Italians. introducing new
and dangerous element into the already
race problem But such
fears have proved groundless- The
italian soon adopts the prevailing
Southern sentiment on the race ques-
ion.
The Italian issue came I'D in a con-
-rete form in Bolivar county, the
BLACKLIST county in the State, few