Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-10-31
TO TEACH FOREIGNERS
Proposed to Distribute
Pamphlets Among Them.
THEIR RIGHTS AND DUTY
Information Needed by the Pros
pective Citizen.
THEIR OBLIGATIONS OUTLINED
Work Suggested by Sons of the
American Revolution-The
Hamlet of Hawarden.
By WILLIAM F. CT RTIS.
al Correspondence of The Star and the
Chicago Record Hera Id

lineage RECORD Herald
NEW YORK, October ~, 1907.
The Sons of the American Revolution
have recently done an act of practical pa
triOtism. which will undoubtedly 90 a
great deal of good and VIII be universally
commended. Several members of that or
ganization have for some time been dis
GUESSING the necessity of taking steps to
better the condition of newly arrived inn
N grants in the United States andS to
educate them concerning the privileges.
rights and duties Of citizens There is no
agency a present to inform them concern
ing our institutions or to assist them in
becoming good citizens. On the contra
~, they are apt to fall into the hands of
interruptions politicians, socialist agita-
tors and others who use them for their
own purposes. Not long ago | described
the pernicious activity of an Italian an
archist named Petrel.a among the ignor-
ant miners on the MeSaba range in Mime
sofa. Pettiella admits, rather boasts.
that he had to fee from his native coun-
try six years ago TO escape arrest for dis
turOinS the peace CT the community: he
Joined the colony of anarchists at Pater
son, n. j., upon his arrival and was EN-
ployed by that class of undesirable citi
Zens to pervert the minds of other Italian
grants Unjl ne went 10 Minnesota
on commercial speculation to organ Za
the foreign miners into branch of the
Western Federation, for which he was to
receive a certain percentage Of the cues
and initiation fees he collected from them.
He is Il glib talker, keen shrewd judge
of human nature ard although unprcpos-
sessng in appearance, and has only been
in the country a few years he is looked
upon as an authority on American insti-
tutions, and has a certain magnetic in
fIence that has made him effective in
such work.
Most of the miners and IahOrcrs on the
Nasdba range are new arrivals from Italy.
Hungary. Poland and other European
countries. a majority of them having
been in this country only two or three
years, and only a few of them can spnak
The English language. 1t has been easy,
the refore. for Petriella to fill their minds
with wrong ideas Of American instiru-
tons and the rights and privileges of citi-
zans And there has been no person or
organization to cOuntera"t his infiuenc
or correct the impressions he has created.
Such a man can do an infinite amount OF
injury, and there are many like him en-
gagged in similar propagandas.
The Sons of the Am erican Revolution
in studying this subject have discovered
that Intermittent attempts have been
mad by local school boards and Other. or
CARNATIONS to instruct newly arrived inn
migrants concerning the duties and priEi-
. !tSFS OF fit!Zs nSi1lp IN ttiiS country. anC
, thus make it easier TO assimiat- them into
/ the body polite These efforts have
doubtless had bane fetal effect fan
, as they have gone. hut everybody agrees
that il would be MUCH better to begin the
work of education on the other side OF
tn" water before tn" Immigrants sail
and on shipLoard before they are exposed
! to the evil counsel that usually iutercppts
them on their arrival
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'f'it P"i"'S concerning "iich Il newly ar
rived foreigner should be advised The
following Questions are discuss. 4.
/ WHAT onrorfunities are onar to III
foreigner to work for a salary or wages
which will nav him well?
. Is if or nor time that any. ona cor
become rich in this countryo
. What aho1t tho ralig;o, Of .,;,
country?
4 Can children obtain q l,a+tar adnc.
ton here than in the lana iron, Which ,
have come?
\ What iS the liberty abopt Which 7
have heard so nucho
G. In a general way how, is. tho co,,,
,ry governed? "''
!. How far will if he nosefhIa fo. mo .,
for my children to ba,,s ,l,,,it 49, t %
with The govarnnant If rbiS cniI,'t,,, - wv
Here ar some Of Tho ,ncyrarS.
~ The pnopio of tLa I|n;to, c,.+ -
all v-o,.kers in ono r-a,, ~. a,otha,. ~
ic no nnbIa clasc ,,,Itioh 49, ~. ni1S
L,v1rv nJn ,rh1 Cnr,,a., Ia,,e ~ va ~
worl, in one ,yay ~ n,,otta Tt,t,'u =,
worl. to ha dona ON ~ fo ~ -
wines il, III. n,iIIe n,, t.,ii no III ne
yoiIroads IN 10 ni,;a 20 ~ - ol 't '
~ thaea Mn i,r, (. CO.. 90 "a II anu d ].
Fa ~ iri I,,, 40 ,t.' compensation
aI,,aat tt,at ;, IN, ~ IL SoG must no,
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a. .tie tssult 81 own iapor ana say
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t,it W i,Sil are open To
~. 10 t2 mlil come olily as
= ' r1 VI i'poi anu Iliuns'ly ana ildpit
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!poii SouI 9eH anu oti no one else whether
20 rr Soe ~" Vi netoi'ie poor. NV
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tiiealis Una. tllt government uoes not pay
tol me suLpoit 81 any pritstS or MINIS
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