The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-09-07
AN EXAMPLE
a Dealer in Human Flesh Con-
demned in italy

mead OF the steamship Agency and
Employment Bureau in Vieksburg
= Denounced for frauds to the detri-
nent OF his country men who mmi-
grated to Mississippi, who were BY
HIM recruited in Italy and for violat-
ing The Italian Immigration laws.
ff1e tribunal OF Manila on the 18th
Of June ult, passed sentence upon
him for one year and ten months and
and fine of 1898 Lires
There is pending al present
against Tierelli and sixteen others of
his confederates another trial for in
! furious frauds against the immigrants
and for violation OF the Italian Ia-
migration laws.
''Tirelli IS one of the worst figures
connected with the horrors OF Italian
Immigration in the state of Missis-
,sippi He is the principal purchases
OF human flesh, courageous agent of
:, American and Italian spectators.
who gave hand to send sure death
in that malaric, plague-ridden coun-
I try the poor immigrants. For
= several years Tirelli succeeded with
: impunity to forward his work as a
3 slave trader-greedy and cruel 70
+. him made head of all companies Of
: iaborers which were rccrlited in
{ Italy or in the populous New York.
s where the fatal dramas OF 'bossIsm
:. assumed a cannibalistic aspect. 1t
. is a certainty that Tireli has had and
will continue TO have protectors, but
Justice has reached him because the
tears spilled by the victims in mo-
n1ens OF fearful suffering and des
pefation were not spilled i'll vain.
=, "The Italian justice-not the
. American; for once at least We
should wish that our modern slave
. traders 1yrching in the State of
Mississippi should not be set aside.
at was toward the end of 1904,
warned of the plan and mode of pro-
cedure organized by cotton planters
of the South especially of the state
of Mississippi, in order TO attract
Italian labor in the malaric zones OF
that homonious river, that we raised
our voice and decried against it. feel
ing that it was our dwty and patriot
ie charity At that time we had
many lively disputes. This was at
an epoch when all were for sending
of American labor clement i'll the
South, the 'disluterested' promised
themselves enormous gain from the
vast enterprise.
I'VE alone spoke. we who were i'll
= the right
+ an the meantime in Mississippi
Ttreiii -, -. a.. iates were CALL
> ing families. and from the rural dis
trie# of Italy the vast herd of hr-
mainly came, fatally directed to
moral destiny
Then the events gave us the right
THE sustainers OF this undertaking
began To melt away; the enthusiasm
began To cool; those who waited to
capture understood that il was only
thc American planters who wanted
TO seat" from those aecur5ed lands
they. began to unite their complaints
TO- the tears, of the men. of their wo-
men and their children. The pages
of the horrors. Of Mississippi began
TO unfold and were read in America
and in Italy.
Thus were the atrocities of Long
wood Deeson, Shelby, Marathon, lie
tota Landing, Sunnyspde: Greenviile
and Vicksburg, countries strewn
with the victims of the base merch-
ants Of human flesh notably among
them A. L. Tireli and Carlo Curcio,
brought to light
= n,""Who is Tireli. the condemned of
the tribunal OF Nantau.
- "For fifteez, years. he was employ
led by the consular dcleeate of Mis-
,sissippi, Mr. Piazza, when the said
consular delegate, on account of adj
..yanced age, six years or SO ago. re-
fired from Office. Tirelli assufed.
without having received authorize
-,tion from the consul at New Or
leans. the management. He at first
made himself TactotHn afterwards
eontinued aharnei undsturbed (and
here the fault lies with the consulate
at New Orleans) to do thing of every
color. astonishing the good faith 81
the Italians. assuming a credit he did
!. not have, usurpine consulate titles
and functions. passing himself off as
'Roval Delegate OF CONSUMPTION
I'VE have in our possession a vol
luminous 'dossier' OF documents re-
latius to the slavery OF the Italians
=. in Mississippi.
THE ietterheads used by Tirelli
qualify him as agent fer steamship
fines. correspondent of the Inter
assumes the defense Of whatever
rights and regulates whatever jurdi-
cal controversy in Italy or elsewhere
liquidation of credits. consultations
4 patents. for inventions-but let Us
pot aside all this Royal Delegate OF
5 Con erip'ion'
can enornity, as can be seei1-oi
which mo one ever paid attention and
in the consular district of louisiana
ssin this ambit IS the state of Missis-
: sippi. and in Italy-but which served
I.Tirelli 10 catch an infinite numbel
4 of fortunates.
"The facts of Longwood and Mara.
thon were denounced The colonia
ssnewspapers.. of last year. about these
days made very irnpressIonable re
+ Violations. The American public and
{ The Italian public were terrified.
% THE Commissioner of Inlmigra
tion was compelled upon ths
strength OF public opinion. to give
course to the results of an inquesi
conducted by the Consul Fara-Forni
with what outcome we know today;
The sentence of Mantua and thu
pending trial.
81 "Of what is Tirelli accused?
First of all let us remember the
ease of Longwood:
"Panni Vittoric, Alfredo Massilli
Maria Panni and others left Siniga-
lia. attracted by the promise that ir
the state of Mississippi they woufd