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ins « -send-off I, A few years ago an American’ hidy Ji.nl pium'ised In gIVfe t.tjrou for ill. education of some poor.,. Italian chikjn n. Hut .1 groat man, prominent in edueathihal i‘i teles and in benevolent meL't ies, upon hei’hg asked lfis adviet'. answ red: Let those Italians alone! I cannot tc Ii you how 1 fell as* the words of that despicable . huin sl,rta!k lay.Wfc..4 fwb-, ashamed,,'4?*^ not of being an, Italian, but a man, a brother to sin ti a j.efltp*d brute,, Let those, Italians’ alone! And yet it'is an Italian. I believe, who first made this •otint: v known to the yv odd. And yet “’Aw t is an Italian who gave this country the name of A morion, And yet there ate by thousands the Kalians why work day and night to produce part of thv American wealth. They are by thoiisahds-ltiuning underIttropVcat SUtt j r freezing to death' in order to extend Jhe network of your railroads. By Ihousgcds spending half their lives in th* b owe Is of the earth, trotting crippled -and old .before they are men. to dig ypur coal. By thou.sand s'Jilfing your land, melting your steel, making your iron and copper and silver and gold to , make- you rich and happy In this World.But let us leave that man alone! I suppose be has never eome in contact with the good-hearted, hard-working Italians and colild no( realize that If the poor are the true gold of this world” the Italians are the finest specimens of this pdd. .Fortunately, not all. Americans areLike 1 p.. p, nplr I 011 nteuu .1 I n ■ 11 are i\uno broad-minded, true Americans .who wish only to do good. I' met occasionally a few of them everywhere in the United Ktate.fC and a good numberin Joliet of kite. When 1 went there in November J found one of the best Italian, .colonies in the United Htates and altrihiih il Ibis not only to the Italians themselves, Init to the good will, sympathy and appreciation of the people of Joliet. --V.I was scarcely a month there that the people, the press, the authorities, did for me so many kindnesses that I was really surprised. Almost everybody, ; Catholic and non-Cathollc, wanted to help me.And here in Chicago there at* Some ‘ Americans who do their best for the good of the Italians. There Is a ladywho opened'tjhe doors of her institution to all Italians who wish to educate apd , ameliorate themselves, and though not a Catholic, invites the Catholic priests to help her in her good work. There are some other ladles who give up the comforts of life, the social pleasures, and consecrate their time, their money, their life for the : 1 no■ Lionetlon of the Italians, so numerous In the neighborhood of'fitate and Twentieth streets, (food bless them all!Now, give mo a handful of these gen-erous'wtmnm 'm‘town where an Italian colony exists, ready to assist the priests and sisters in their work; give mo some millionaire who by the great phi vondties and richly-endowed ]itrar- . its. inaccessible to empty stomachs and rags, would build large houses and schools for the blight Italian children, and in less than a century I Will give back to America in Italo-American race which will be the pride of the country.In less tlmn a century of these sons of glorious Italy, of this race of Caesar, of Cicero and Virgil, Columbus, Dante, Gilileo, Raphael, Carnova, Verdi. I will turn over to America a people of rulers, if soldifrs. of orators and poets and writers and urtists who will finally
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Joliet Weekly Republican
Joliet, Illinois, US
Fri, Mar 27, 1903
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Joliet P.
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