The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1908-04-04
Bclie and obscure them.
Till the world shall laugh at their
death and their fall.

lIt 1l1SIl dtlu luo.dClllEtIlS, lOO, IldNC
fought a. long and gallant fight in this
country against anti foreign prejudice,
and from the point-o view of the ltal-
ian they have succeeded admirably.
Yet VIC read that 4 few days ago the
high officers Of th4 Ancient Order of
11ibernians and Of thc German -Ameri-
can National Alliance met and formed
plans for standing and acting together
against any and all projected legisla-
ton intended to. make the lot of the
European Immigrants harder. Quito
right, and the Italians of America
ought to offer their co operation
promptly. whateVer battling is done
for justice to the Italian immigrant
must needs bring before the American
people that they owe to Italy a bound
less debt Of gratitude; secondly, must
necessarily keep fllem Informed on
correct opinion regarding the cmigra-
tion in Italy; and cannot fail to make
them in tin1e abandon tho absurd
BLACK Hand" slander for a sane APP
probation of the italian as material for
Il citizen of tho most desirable class
Why They Are Opposed.
a writer treats sof the hostility to
the italian workmei, cvinced in certain
quarters of the United States. He finds
it strange that Gerlnans and the Irish
4 or 4c
American life, while the Italians are
still considered intruders, and meet
with opposition and discouragement.
He points out that Italians have done
more for America than the sons Of any
other country. Columbus discovers. II,
Amerigo Vespucci gave it it's name:
Enrico Tonti shared in the discoveries
of La Sale; l1eSs declares Antonion
Moucci to have been the real inventor
Of the telephone, and the late General
iii Cesnoia and Msrconi are named as
modern Italians who have greatly benz
Gifted America.
The reasons gigep by Americans for
deposition to the Italian immigrants,
he sums up thus:
"Tlley do not make this country their
home, but save their money to send to
Italy or take back there with them.
They are. paupcr labor. cutting down
American wages They are considered
Mofio A,,{i
Catholics hate them, supposing them
70 be the cream of Catholicism. Catho-
lies dislike them OH the ground that
they have little or no religion
1.-THE rapidity with which the Italians
of New York. Philadelphia and Chicago
are accommodating real estate, and the
enormous number Of abandoned Yam
kee farms which they are turning into
gardens, literally making by their pa
tient industry two blades of grass to
grow where one grew before, fully an
swers the charge that they are but
birds Of passage. They have no desire
to live again under the Italian govern
ment, which turned them almost to
the starvation point, no matter how
hard they dug and delved On the point
here King and O'Key. in the book
above quoted, treating of the Italians
in South America. say:
The Italians Future.
"In the vast plains Of South America
lies the future Of the Italian people.
And great future it is. Another
century there will be 1Oo,o0o,0oo Ital-
ians, and Italian will be, after English
and Russian, the most widely spoken
of Aryan tongues. The italian colon
list clings, as rule. to his nationality;
he has all the Englishman's tenacious
love of the language and customs Of
the mother country. He keeps his
close connections with it, social, edu-
cational, industrisl-he has not ambi-
tion to live under the national nag.
circumstances have shaped it other
wise, and he has brought with him
better memories Of what Italian gov
ernment means. He prefers to become
the loyal citizen Of another country,
to work out his individual salvation
there, and let his own native force
make him the predominant element in
It,"
Should any citizen, native or natural
lied, adduce against the Italian in.ni-
grant his tendency to take the law in
his own hands for vengeance, it can
not be amiss to remind him that the
papers of a few weeks ago (January
12, 1909 contained the startling in.
formation that murder trial in Breat-
hitt county, Kentucky. had to be sus-
pended becousc Of the danger Of whole
sale slaughter by armed mountaineers
of Judge, jury and witnesses, IL the
case went on. And these mountaineers
be It remembered, are native stock o!
long descent. Booth Tarkington's "a