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sional men—business men, doctors, layv^, ymvnroWtaiis mi4 w yfacytrnnKrto America to improve their business, to have better chances to make a for(Beloved Catholic Pri st \yho Tobl ('hicago Women's Club Joliet Had Best Italian Colony in United States.)must picturesque and producesREV. JOSEPH TONKLLO.Chicago Women »Best Italian Colony in Unitedpeople. 1 protest with every of my .Mood, lor the Jove of my country and for the sake of truth. But if by scum is meant that the Italians an* mostly from the poorestc 1 ass e s, f -nwi ashaipetU,knowing ftrtt tvelt iiriw the jwwr wt the in use beloved by Christ. M rs, Y ales only a few days ago c alled the pdbr the “true gold Of this wmld,” lovely atid beautiful words which should be engraved in the hearts of all rich Americans.The Italians who come to this country can be divided into three classes.First, the loafers, Jhe swindlers, the robbctjh the ex-convicts and the like, Those Italians-, fortunately wry tow, are had seed, and the rich and gefie rollsa rulo, to change tle ir lt;t ook *1 MIPP Pious ami deep-rooted -habits of. evil-doing. Yet eveif some of them founda redemption. Thanks to America for this!The second class is ffirmed of profes-WUI K -UiJ)' a,lIU lllfc'M *'' v 'thv American wealth. They are by tbousahdsntiirning under ;i tropical to* freezing to death ip order to extend jtfrr network of your railroads. By thousands spending half their lives in the bowels of the eafdh. getting crippled and old ..before! they are fnvn. to dig Ipur coal. By thousandsJilting your land, melting your nted. making your iroii and copper and silver and gold to . make- you rich and happy In this World.But let us leave that man alone! I suppose he hasr nevor cotne in contact \yIth the good-hearted, hard-working 1 tfifiaIts and eniild no) realize that If the poor are .‘The true gold of this world** the Italians are the finest specimens of t hiS -gold'. ■■ ■ ■• ■, ■F. itunately. rod all. Americans are; {kv .the Th^fOtC..;:piue broad-minded, true Americans who wish only to do gcaid. T met occa-n\f , . ' . ir,tl,rn,uv Flonally a few of them everywhere Inla the- American spirit -nut—- - -rtho I’niti(I Ktatefvand a good numberin Joliet nf tote. When 1 went there intoNovember I found one of the best Ital-ia^coloiiies in the United Htates andonly to the Italians themselves^ but to the good will, sympathy and appreciation of the people of
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Joliet Weekly Republican
Joliet, Illinois, US
Fri, Mar 27, 1903
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