The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1909-05-28
On Home Mission Work Among.
Italians.
Rev, Vim, One Of the Pioneers in the
Work, Tells Large Audience
About Il.

The large congregation at The
Southern Methodist Church rJoyed /
fine treat on last Sunday morning. |
II had been announced that the Rev
w l. Reid, OF Catlettsburg, would
be here and conduct the quarterly !
meeting services, including sermon.
AZ the conclusion Of the usual in /
tfoductory exercises the pastor, the
Rev G. c. Hutchinson, announced
that instead Of the expected sermon
by Mr.. Reid the congregation would
have the pleasure Of listening to the
Rev Mr. Winn, who was a missionary
TO the Italians In the United States
Mr.. VIM Is n member Of the West=i
crn Virginia Conference Of the NJ. j..
Church, South, and his work at pres
ent Is that OF conducting schools
among the Italians in the coal fields
OF West Virginia. lie prefaced his
most interesting address by speaking
OF the pleasure he experienced in
being able 10 visit Louisa again and
to speak in this church,
u WIS received into this Confer
ence," he said, "and received from
Bishop Fitzgerald, in this building,
my first work. | was here and was
most Hospitality entertained ut the
beautiful home OF Judge Stewart"
After speaking few moments along
this line Mr.. WInn told very graphic
ally OF his work. He said he had
gone 10 Tampa, and there, among the
many thousand Italian laborers, he
Lad studied the language TO the end
Tat he would be better fitted for
his chosen work His difficulties, his
failures, and his successes were re-
hearsed In a very interesting way.
At present he Is, as we have said,
engaged In the work OF teaching
among the Italians in the mining
regions Of West Virginia Mr.. Winn
seems to have gone into his work
with heart and soul, and with II very
engaging and successful way. He
Knows. evidently, how TO get at the
human side Of the pupils intrusted
To him: find the gem which is GOV
cred by dirt ignorance and false
doctrine--a sort OF social contribu-
ton, as It were, and to make Of this
gem Jewel IT for the Kingdom,
Mr. Winn said much that was, to
most Of us, new, and to all of us
very interesting As the GnCi"nts
divided all Gau into three parts. 50
did the speaker divide all Italy:
Northern. Middle and Southern. From
Northern Italy come the higher type
OF emigrants-the scholar, the artist
pnd the nobleman who seeks an Amer
lean heiress. These Italians are only
- twenty per cent illiterate. From the
middle country we get the merchants
and a few other kindred types, forty
two and one-half per cent illiterate,
and from Southern Italy, including
the island Of Sicily, where the dread
full earthquakes Of five months ago
destroyed so many cities and killed
so many thousand people, We get the
lborers, the man We calf the Dago.
There are more italians in the city
OF New York than there are in Ma
pleS They are found from Maine
to California and from the lakes
TO the gulf. He begged us net to
call them Dagoes, II we valued Cur
peace, II not our lives
The Italian laborer knows how 10
10 the minimum amount of labor con
s,stent with the keeping of his job
lie was rugal, economical and saw
ing II he got dollar aud quar-
fer a day the dollar would be hoard
ed More than likely the man you
derisively and contemptuously call
Dago could buy you at your highest
'self-valuation.'
At the close of Nj. Winn's address
the pastor told the congregation tha
be had pledged ten dollars TO the
school conducted by Mr.. Winn, ant
that while he would not take up