. Home Missionary, The (April 1905-March 1906) . atstands behind the pushcart, andsprinkles an odor of garlic as it walks;the Italy that is hated by our work-men almost as much as the Chinese;the Italy that imports the Mafia,and pursues strange and terrible re-venges in the slums of our greatcit es. In one word Dago Italy. The average American makes noattempt to reconcile the two. He admires the Italy^of history and art,and unhesitatingly gives it placeamong the great lands of the for poor, immigrant, Dago Italy,he simply despises it. And yet these people of DagoItaly—they are of the
. Home Missionary, The (April 1905-March 1906) . atstands behind the pushcart, andsprinkles an odor of garlic as it walks;the Italy that is hated by our work-men almost as much as the Chinese;the Italy that imports the Mafia,and pursues strange and terrible re-venges in the slums of our greatcit es. In one word Dago Italy. The average American makes noattempt to reconcile the two. He admires the Italy^of history and art,and unhesitatingly gives it placeamong the great lands of the for poor, immigrant, Dago Italy,he simply despises it. And yet these people of DagoItaly—they are of the same kind asthose who made the Italy of the was such as they who followedher old dukes and counts and foughther battles in the middle ages. Itwas they who rose under Garibaldi,drove out the Austrian and madefree Italy. It is they who have madeItalian art and music what they areand have been. For the genius rep-resents only the tastes and longingsof the masses behind him. Think for a moment how greatlyimpoverished would be our inherit-. ITALIAN RAG PICKER S SHOP
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