Norwich bulletin., 1910-03-10

For the second number of the r. M.
 c. A. entertainment course the Central
 Baptist church was practically filled
 on Wednesday evening to hear Dr. E.
 A. Steiner, professor of psychology at
 GrinneH college, Iowa, who is an au-
 thority on immi grafton, and whose 1ec-
 ture, On the Trail of the Immigrant,
 dience feel his thorough Knowledge of
 the question the extensive inquiry he
 had made into 1t and the force of his arguments, while interspersed through
 out it were the many entertaining
 word pictures and situations. clever1y
 presented. Dr. Steiner is an interest ing speaker and held the undivided at tention of his hearers.
 Dr. Steiner was presented by Rev. P. c. Wright, who referred to his ts-- tensive work in connection with the subject and he was greeted with ap- plause He referred briefly to the early settlers who came to their country and their locating along the river courses in various directions and the asSirni- lation which has taken place among them. The j,effux of the S1nigrants is various nationalities, who seem to diff fer in complexion and speech, come to this country. We feel the difference of blood and language the difference so- cially, religiously and politically.
 They are an economic menace. We feel that our native population is be- ing plotted out, but yet the fact is our native population is being pushed up rather than out, and the wage up rath- CT than down. Ninety-six per cent. of these people funded in New oYrk are conductive in 24 hours. If railroad work, blasting, mining and laboring on extensive scales is to be done this type cannot be surpassed. If, during the past year 900.000 university graduates had been landed in New York instead of those foreigners. the immigration wouldn't be solved. There would be no one to work Those graduates would all want to be earning their living by their brain power. AS it is there is something to work on and those for eigners can gain from us and we from them
 Some ask if they do not live on very little and carry their money back to the old country. This, he says, he finds to be true, but that is not all they car " back. They get the American ideas and ways, and carry them back for the betterment of thir own country and people. He told of being in the steer age of a returning ship on the way across, and found that 1000 who were returning carried back $25,000, but on the same ship there were few first cab in passengers. yet most and one of them had thousands which they would spend in the old country. The steer there, but those in the first cabin do not. There are evidences in all sec tions of Europe of people who have been to this country and return for the betterment of their countrymen.
 Another question is, Do they rise to our standard of living? This he pro- ceeded to show was the general trend. When they first some here they live They have to take board CTS, and many live in single room. As soon as they begin to get little the boarders have to go, and they have their homes and try to pat tern after us, and soon get to live and act like Americans.
 Some ask, Do they possess racial qualities to unfit them for aSSinula- tion? Are they going to be a marked people with race problems? Men, he said. are what environment makes them. It is found that among those who are strongly marked racia1ly that there are marked changes. He told of a Polish boy who had. been in this country but six years, But who was acting as bel1boy. and having read dime novels, was ready to go out and Silas Collins, Ki1onsky having been his former name. If they have the op- portunity we have for intellectual im- provement, they will grow very much like us.
 wiH they be able to appreciate our cultured. political and social ideals? It to this country they are very polite, act as we do, whether for better or worse. They are net cultured, for if they were they wouldn't do our dirty