Sons of Italy; a social and religious study of the Italians in America . hat the principle of nationality livesin the right that each people bound together by blood, lan-guage, and territory have to dispose of their own inhabitants of Trent and Trieste, torn from the mothercountry, tried to keep up Italian language and feeling bya Pro Patria Society. It was crushed. The Italianlanguage was forbidden and Italian newspapers has always dreamed of uniting these lost provincesas France has of Alsace-Lorraine. Italy has not been blindto the dangers of the Triple Alliance
Sons of Italy; a social and religious study of the Italians in America . hat the principle of nationality livesin the right that each people bound together by blood, lan-guage, and territory have to dispose of their own inhabitants of Trent and Trieste, torn from the mothercountry, tried to keep up Italian language and feeling bya Pro Patria Society. It was crushed. The Italianlanguage was forbidden and Italian newspapers has always dreamed of uniting these lost provincesas France has of Alsace-Lorraine. Italy has not been blindto the dangers of the Triple Alliance forced on her by Bis-marck. In 1912, Mr. Charles Lapworth, who spent sometime in Italy, wrote, The question now is, what will happento the Triple Alliance? Germany is alarmed and longs fora Bismarck who bullied her (Italy) when a weakling withno army or navy. France is now a tried friend of can browbeat no longer. Italy is a strong, vic-torious, young nation in a position to pick and choose. l ^harlet Lapworth, Tripoli and Young Italy. SONS OF ITALY. THE ITALIANS CONTRIBUTION TO AMERICA 317 Before 1914, Austria had strengthened her military holdin Italys unredeemed provinces, and the Austro-Italian fron-tier was on practically a war footing while the Franco-Italian border was neglected. Austria nearly stabbed Italyin the back during the war with Tripoli, but Italian generalshad the foresight to have a large army on the northernfrontier before they sailed for Africa. This Tripolitan warwas forced on Italy. Her natives were imprisoned, perse-cuted, and murdered in Tripoli, and her business mendeliberately hindered in their legitimate enterprises. UnderGerman influence the Turk ignored her claims for redress,and German steamers were bidding for North African tradewhile all Europe had acknowledged Italys sphere of in-fluence in Tripoli because of her large colonies there. Thenwhen Italy declared war on Turkey, and, led by the Dukeof Abruzzi, her dreadnoughts star
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