Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-10-20

In 1905 il attained the enormous figure of
1861. For the first SIX mont $ OF 1906
it reaehed 45s,61". Italy, I, adds. 'tanDa
more and more to become an immense
reservoir for Labor The labor is excellent
and il Is frequently demanded
Meanwhile and the Questions Diplo-
matique is 5 lent on that head. what Ee-
comes of the government thus abandoned
by is population?
The authors Ghere are two). NM Nellie
and Darlow, of an article entitled The
Italian Exodus" in tn"
The Land Nineteenth Century for
Of Gold September wr.te;
Emigration has become
kind of epidemic. Glowing reports %
high salaries, and successful careers, ana
lighter taxes. and easier conditions of life
beyond the sea act Ike a magnet on the
young men who would formerly have
toiled on In patient poverty at home In
some regions the Italian landowners are
trying to draw agricultural Labor from
provinces where the rage for emigration
has not as yet become so mperious The
government also is doing whatever los in
It's power to promote this internal migra-
ton. Here and there it has established
agricultural colonies Of peasants FIR Lom-
harcY and the provinces of the Roma gna:
such co.onies are found prime pally in
the Roman CampagGa. in Sardinia and In
ta!abria and other southern districts
a second result of this exodus closely
concerns the friends of peace. The pres
ent military organization and its require
ments cause grave anxiety. The truth
IS the hurdcESome military systems of
the continent are the cause.
For a fact, aside from the misery which
reigns in the south the burdens imposed
ny family expansion. emigration is I'M
doubleday accentuated by the exigencies
Of the military system. Consumption
should furnish each year 100000 new re-
cruits for the active army and 25oOo Hor
Ftke reserve. For number of years the
number of cOnscripts has not exceeded
$1,000. and in the year 1896 this number
fell to 10000. In view Of the exodus OF
young men there is no other remedy eX
cept to interdiCt emigration. The gov
eminent Will seek diligently some other
method to retain its population. What?
The authors of the Italian exodus con
ciude:
Unless some new forces intervene we
may live to discover that the center of
the Latin races has visibly shifted across
the Atlantic"
A Latinized North America will have
one great advantage which perhaps has
already attracted the attention Of Ny.
Root II will add immensely to the pres
tige of the United States in their future
relations with the Central and South
American republics. Both truth and in
terest now combine to inspire the North
American to be less boastful Of his Anglo
Saxon origin, which never was demon
strable
NJ Chic refers to the small number of
Italian immigrants in the United States
who, agrculturists. are not engaged i'll
agriculture, but in the pursuits hereto
fore mentioned. He asks: us it be
cause the Italian peasant hates the soil
that is not his own? Or does he seek
in other work to forget his past hard
experience and thus cure the nostalgia
from which he suffers? These two rsy-
Geological elements play a considerable
role in the choice of professions by ltal-
ians in the United States
Note must be taken of the information
he receives in Italy of the high wages and
the ease with which the fruit merchant,
bootblack. barber, not TO forget the music
and the monkey, amass money In America.
In Italy he recalls the preceptor who has
forced him, his, wife and children to
leave the family home. and his simple soul
will not admit that the American tax
gatherer is less rapaciouS.
There are, said NJ. Chic, Italian agricul-
turists in the United States, and these are
highly prosperous. The
PROSPEROUS colony of Vineand in New
Jersey is composed of 600
ptlSOHS, anu Icpl eSeHtS
practical attempt at agricultural COM
munism. 1t Is in reality a cooperative
union of proprietors who work large
tract of land and cultivate cereals, fruits,
vineyards, raise cattle, make wine and
exploit on a large scale the products OF
1000 persons there are $50 proprietors,
or about one for each family. There are
other successful agricultural colonies in
Jersey and New York.
The mass of Italians in America reside
in. the cities. The census shows that IN
New York there are 900 fruit merchants, |
300 meat shops 300 restaurants, 1900
barber shops, 800 cobbler and Dootblack
stands.
The government should adopt measures
to induce it's Italian colonies to abandon
the cities and resume their agricultural
pursuits. The Italian. it has been as
sumed heretofore was only a temporary
resident Now that he proposes to make
this country his permanent home the gov
eminent should exercise its pa,ernal care
SO far as to induce him to so where his
labor is so mucn needed.
When the tinan cial and military condi- |
tons in Italy seem to bar the emigrants
return to his country the United States
government should promptly adopt him,
attach him to its geDe and constitute him
its permanent peasantry without which
no country may be truly rich and pros
porous.
To this end there are lessons to be
learned by the American farmer and
planter, who first of all should employ the
Italian in groups, with his family, con-
stitutng thus a colony in which NJ may
live happy and contented and without that
nostalgia which invariably attacks him If
iSoiated and separated from his kin or
people. The Italian immigrant is looked
upon with suspicion because of his as
sumed bad temper and tendency to the use
of the stiletto. Those who know him best
that these are not his character
istics, but are due to the vicious condi-
lions of his life in the s ums of our cities
1t is only a short while ago that there
was almost an epidemic of the widest ac-
cusatOns against the Italian emigrants in
New York, which were proved in almost
every case to be groundess, and which
were severely reproved and condemned by
the police judges before whom the cases
We're brought.
La Ressegna Nazionale of Florence con-
tains an article In which 1t counsals the
Italian immigrant to form in America, ~
the German. Irish and Swede. Lega
ltalo Americana, or Italo American
League which may serve as "a moral.
political and intellectual guide to the end
that it may build up a Greater Italy in
the United States iF it may not do so in
Italy" The author likewise invokes the
names of Italians who have left a glorious
name in America-Ch christopher Columbus !
AmerigO Nespucius Giovanni da Veraz-
Zano, Terranova, Sehastiana Cabotto. En-
rico Tonti, the Companion of La Sale, and
t. I n