Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1893 — ITALIANS BY THOUSANDS. [ARTICLE]

ITALIANS BY THOUSANDS.

The Exodus to This Country 14 Increasing and Unchecked. Over 1,030 emigrants have left Italy for this country since the outbreak of cholera in Naples, and 42,000 immigrants have come from Italy this year. According to the official returns 75 per cent, of the immigrants who come to this country from Southern Italy can neither read nor write, and they are largely of a class described in a recent dispatch from Naples who “hide Jheir sick under beds,” believing that cholera is.the result of the upper classes trying to poison the lower, in order to reduce the population. Considering the fact that Bradstreet reports that over 1,000,009 men have been thrown out of employment in this country in two months, and that thousands are crying for bread, it seems extraordinary that we should allow these people to come here and take the bread from the mouths of our own , people.