Republican farmer., 1919-07-18
CLERGYMAN IS TAKEN TO TASK FOR STATEMENT !
DiNigris Says Rev. Rose Has Confused the Cues
 tions At Issue.

Joseph De Nigrts Of :s Steuben street. F. prominent member of tho local Italian Amertccaization con- wilEarn Wallace Rose of this city.
 takes a.-e clergyman t6 task fer q public article the ~.tar had written, regarding the ,.sss.f 1s Of the Ameri-
 can citizen Of Italian blood on the Plume question.
 In his letter De Nigris makes an
 able exposition of the reasons why, in his opinion, the port of Plume
 should go to Italy and scores Presi-
 dent Wilson. His letter in part fol-
 lows:
 Reverend Sir:
 "A few days ago I read your letter
 in La Sentinella, and also your letter
 in the New York World of June II,
 and I must say that no friend of the
 Italians would have made such in-
 situation as that made by you. As a
 matter of fact you nave confused the
 question at issue. You say that the
 the American press and everything
 American. This is not so. The issue
 is purely between the Italians and
 President Wilson. The Italian press
 say that President Wilson did not
 represent the will of the people at
 Paris, and that we all know, for he
 was not authorized by Congress to
 Italian press is distilling hatred of
 act in the capacity he did. I must
 also say that every Italian-American in this country is a loyal citizen. This has been proven by the American army sent to France.
 While the population of the United States is only four (4) per cent. Italian, the American army of expe- dition was composed of fully twelve (12) per cent. Italian-American boys, and a big percentage of them volunteered their services to fight the common enemy-Germany, Aus tria, the latter the Jugo-Slavia of to- day. the Italian-American press which you accuse of distilling hatred to the American press is that very same press that exerted the Italian American boys to take up arms against the common enemy.
 Going back on the question of Italy my dear Rev. Rose, I remem- Der very well when you spoke of the deeds of the Italian army when you said that it had to fight against three anies-Austria, Germany and
 nature-but you soon forgot all about
 that, and are now thinking differ ently than you did when the help of
 Italy was badly needed.
 You may ask me, if you are an American citizen, why do you stick for Italy? My answer to that would be like the man who gets married; he marries his wife because he loves her. but that does not mean that he should forget his mother. It is espec- ially so when she is in distress and needs his help. He may love his wife
 as much as a man can love, but next
 comes his mother. If his wife has
 trouble with his mother, it would be his duty to step between them and
 make peace and not attempt to strike either one or the other, but he would be Justified to tell either his mother or his wife, as the case may be, that she was wrong. Therefore, no matter how much one loves America, he has always some love left for some other country in which he was either born himself, or his father or mother come from or even his grandfat ther or
 grandmother came from, and I dare
 any one to dispute this fact-even the editor of the Bridgeport Sunday PoSt'