Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1903-06-17
The Foreigner Gives a Few Reasons
Why He Forsakes Native Land
for the New World.
A LAND OF OPPORTUNITY
All Have Heard Of Its Glorious Pos,
sibilities and Where Happiness
and Freedom Are Waiting.

ia anu ne VIII lacOnlcally answer
For work"
And mo- because of liberty the
visitor. actuated by preconceived no.
tions, may ask.
mo, for work" the Official will re-
ply. About all the liberty they care
to possess is the head of the goddess
on the American dollar"
The official is both right and wrong.
When an immigrant arrives at the is.
land he is questioned as to his ma
terial condition and prospects: Are
you in good health? Are You capa.
Bile OF work, so that you will not be.
come a public charge? What are you
going TO do when you land?' The
man answers, II can take care Of my.
self and | have come here to do IT,"
and so the official Is right. but he is
not required by law 10 inquire OF the
mans heart thoughts and his hopes;
and so he is wrong.
A visit to the various pens in the
big receiving station, in company with
a polyglot interpreter. will substanii.
ate this statement. 1t will do more.
Ii will show that many an immigrant
talks Of work first, because. dimly or
fully, he feels that work and plenty
of opportunity to work is the basis
nf biphpr LIVING and lbaptE
Jan Jablonski, who came from
Prussian Poland the other day. bound
for n Of the three lake cities where
Poles are numerOus-Chlcago, Buffalo
and Cleyeland-is representative Cf
this class.
why have you come owe here.
Jan Jablonski?" asked the interpreter.
For work" was the answer.
And isn't their any work To be-
done in Poland?" ven on the interpra.
ter.
yes
Then why have you come here ia
work."
Because there is much more work
10 be done here
How do you know"
The Pole searched through a pocket
of a heavy coat and pulled out a bun.
die of soiled and much worn letters.
He searched through the pile for a
moment, then pulled out one.
MY brother" he said, as he unfold
ed the paper. lives in Chicago. He
wrote me that there is much TO do
there. You are not tied down to n
kind of labor he said. You can do
many things and make money at all.
You can get up in the world. If you
want to. and you can surely educate
your children.
And you came to do all these
things?" asked the interpreter.
Yes" was the reply.
And which do you want to do the
most?"
ITO work hard to take care of my
three sons and two daughters and ed
ucate them" was the answer.
This desire to make a better home
for the children and to fit them more
properly for life has a strong hold on
thousands of the fathers and moth.
ers who pass through Ellis island.
Little Freda is in school the whole
year round writes a relative or friend
in America. My Tony stands at the
head of the class" is another message
sent to the old world home. "All the
children are going to school and can
read and write. and VI can make
enough to keep them there is a fire.
quent third. In such manner is Amer.
lea held up to old world parents as
the children's paradise. and thOus
ands of immigrant fathers and moth
ers, who tell the blue-clad officials
that they come here TO work, come
In truth to work for the clinging
brood that they bring with them.
Herein may be found the reason
why the second generation Is so cas-
lily absorbed in the American body
polite. while the first clings tenac.
iously TO old world customs.
My wife and H. said Antonio Sa'
brolla, from Rome. to the interpreter,
will work for the children and send
them TO school and make them like
your children"
But how about yourself and youI
wife-won't you become Americans
too?" questioned the interpreter.
Sabrolla shrugged his shoulders.
I'VE are old" he answered. "A
bent olive tree full grown can not be
made straight. II is enough for M
to work to make orr childrru bk'
yours"
A similar answer was given by al
Australian German miner hn md iol
the anthracite coal fields OF pennsy
vania.
Maybe my sons. when hey ar,
through school. will becoul" store
keepers like my brother he said
and live in a fine house like Ameri
cans, but my woman and are use'
to a hut
OF the single men every one ans
wered ito work, when asked why h
came; but pressed as were the mel
of families. many amplitied their brie
replies:
ITO work at many things and &c
up and be somebody. said a north
ern Italian.
ITO work for a home for my sweet
heart and have her here as my wife
Why? My brother in Minnesota say
this is a fine country 10 raise 4 fan
lily in." said a Scandinavian.
ITO work and do as | damn pleas,
so long as | don't break a law wa
the reioinder Of a bristling Irishmln.
ITO be left alone at your work an
in your home, and not have your pro-
crty and liberty taken awav hy III
soldiers" was a Firms answCf.
OF the hundred or more immigrant
who were interviewed, so 10 speaI
this Finn was the only one who spok
the word "liberty." This Is explaine
by the fact that Finland is bein
roughly Russianized just now. viii
in other countries represented anon
the immigrants questioned no drast
measures have lately been institute
Even a half dozen Poles. typical re
resentatives of a liberty-loving rae
failed to use the word. But th'
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