The Italian himself is at last waking up to this fact.
In a political speech recently made by an Italian padrone, he bitterly reproached the alderman for giving the-four-dollars-a-day "jobs" of sitting in an office to Irishmen and the-dollar-and-a-half-a-day "jobs" of sweeping the streets to the Italians.

This general struggle to rise in life, to be at least politically represented by one of the best, as to occupation and social status, has also its negative side.

We must remember that the imitative impulse plays an important part in life, and that the loss of social estimation, keenly felt by all of us, is perhaps most dreaded by the humblest, among whom freedom of individual conduct, the power to give only just weight to the opinion of neighbors, is but feebly developed.

A form of constraint, gentle, but powerful, is afforded by the simple desire to do what others do, in order to share with them the approval of the community.

Of course, the larger the number of people among whom an habitual mode of conduct obtains, the greater the constraint it puts upon the individual will.