Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-09-18

Uncle Sam Is philanthropic as we'll
as aggressive and enterprising. His
hospitality Is only exceeded by his
commercial and industrial instinct He
Is glad to welcome the multitudes
from other lands to his vast domain,
but he is of too practical a turn of
mind and too thrifty a manager to rest
content If his newly-adopted children
do not speedily get busy to their per
sonal profit and the good of the coun-
try Year after year as the food Of
immigration has flowed into the coun-
try in ever increasing volume the
task of properly providing homes and
work for the multitudes has grown
more and more complex, until at last
the necessity Of a more thorough and
systematic method OF handling them
has forced itself upon his attention.
AS result of this increasing RESPONSE
bility he has been led to open what
Is undoubtedly the greatest employ
ment Office in the world. In other
words, your Uncle Sam is now an en-
plOyment agent, with something like
100000 people to find jobs for each
to distribute the incoming thousands
to parts of the country most needing
the immigrant so that the interests
OF the individual as we'll as that of the
country will be best served.
Foreigners come to the United
States. settle down in masses in the
cities, form wretched slum quarters,
live in much the same conditions of
poverty and misery as they were &C.
customed to at home. and toll in
sweatshops and factories for pitiful
wages. Much crime and no little vice
inevitably result. If these people
could be judiciously scattered over ag-
rtcultural regions, they would have an
excellent chance for prosperity and
happiness, and their industry would be
vastly beneficial to the community at
large.
This is exactly the purpose for
which the federal employment Office
has been organized. 1t is a new Sec
ton of the Bureau of immigration at
Washington, and is officially known
as the Division of Information. At the
head of it is Terence V. Powderly. Its
business will be to give all possible
encouragement to the distribution of
newly arrived aliens, sending them
where they are wanted, and to en-
able farming or other communities
which need work people to secure
them. With this end in view all obtain
able information will be gathered and
placed, in printed form, in the hands
of immigrants.
There is practically no demand for
more work-people in our cities. But
everywhere in agricultural regions
they are badly wanted The southern
states are desperately anxious to get
them, at good wages. Texas is so
eager for them that she is willing to
defray the travelling expenses of any
aliens willing to work who will come
her way. Not only this, but she will
build homes for them of the kind they
want; and such advances of money
may be repaid on the easiest possible
terms.
The employment Office has sent
formal inquiries to all of the states
and territories, asking about the local
demand for labor, the opportunity for
settlers, the price Of land and other
such details. OF the replies thus far
received some have como from Tho
governors, others from boards of agri-
culture, and yet others from the state
immigration commissioners. They ap-
pear to indicate that nearly every