Luckily,
it is a fact that so much has been written in American
newspapers and periodicals in the past few years about the
danger of the Black Hand and the criminals from south Italy
that the authorities on the other side have allowed a rumor to
be circulated that the climate of South America is peculiarly
adapted to persons whose lungs have become weakened from
confinement in prison. In fact, at the present time more
Italian criminals seek asylum in the Argentine than in the
United States. Theoretically, of course, as no convict can
procure a passport, none of them leave Italy at all--but that
is one of the humors of diplomacy. The approved method among
the continental countries of Europe of getting rid of their
criminals is to induce them to "move on." A lot of them keep
"moving on" until they land in America.
Of course, the police should be able to cope with the Black
Hand problem, and, with a free use of Italian detectives who
speak the dialects and know their quarry, we may gradually, in
the course of fifteen years or so, see the entire
disappearance of this particular criminal phenomenon.
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