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There follows a transcription of the above August 25, 1884 newspaper clipping from The Sun:
Italians,
They wear their clothing as long as it will hold together, and then replace it with other clothing that they get perhaps from areas and ash barrels. They live on soup made from bones picked from the ash barrels and on vegetables that were thrown away at the markets.
The Italian will work at the hardest and most offensive kinds of labor, enduring the persecution of trades unions; he will run a gauntlet of stones on his way to his corner of a room; he will eat his meal made from what Americans throw away.
The one thing that seems to agitate the average member of a labor union more than anything else is a man who never shirks his work, who does his work well, who lives as cheaply as he can and retain his health, and who steadily refuses to squander his money. The crimes of the Italian are industry and frugality.
When prejudice drives out these people America loses a class which for honesty and thrift and all other characteristics which should be found in good citizens are unsurpassed.
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