The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-10-27
Governor Baldwin Speaks On Duty
 To The Foreigner
Tells Connecticut D. A. R. it is Momentous Ore to All,
 Especially to Women

New London, Oct. 2z-The presence of Terrence V. Powderly, chief divi- sion of information, bureau of immi- grafton and naturalization, Washing ton, and of Governor Baldwin and staff featured the annual Field day of the Connecticut Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, here yes terday afternson. MT. Powderly de- livered an address on .'Our Duty to the Immigrant and Governor Bald win spoke on s'The Foreigner in Con necticut."
 A marble bust of Oliver Ellsworth, an illustrious jurist in Connecticut at the time of the Revolution, was un- yelled by Mrs. John T. Sterling of Bridgeport. The bust is to be the gift of the Connecticut Daughters to Continental Memorial Hall in Wash ington, headquarters of the National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution. Six years ago. the Con- necticut daughters purchased the old Oliver Ellsworth homestead at Wind sor and converted it into an historical museum of the Revolution.
 Governor Baldwin.
 Governor Baldwin said in part: N An occasion like this is a fine one for saying civil platitudess I shall let that opportunity slip by, and ask you to consider a question of duty. It is a momentous one. It addresses itself to women, perhaps, more, even, than to men. It is in one light a question of duty, and in another a question of self-protection. I ask you to consid- CT with me our relations as citizens of Connecticut to the foreigner in Con- necticut.
 He is here. He is here to stay. He is here to become part of our social and civic life. His blood is to mix with our blood; his traditions with our traditions. His children, born on Connecticut soil, are to be Americans. as fully as We are.
 The question is new one. It is new because until recent years immi- grafton has come mainly from Teu- tonic or English-speaking nations. The blood of the Celt was not akin to that of the Anglo-Saxon, but the Irish who came here in such num- bers about the middle, of the last cen- tury, had been bred-willingly or un- willingly-under English institutions and influences. Now come the Ital- ians, the Slav, the Greek, the Arme- nian. the Japanese.
 Most of them are eager to identify themselves with America. and those who are looking forward to return to their native land, look to it. gen. erally, only after years spent here to win an America fortune.
 There is a solvent which can com bine these races with ours, and which is daily combining them. It is to be found in our public, schools, and in some measures in our Sunday schools and churches.
 Here women have the largest part to play They constitute the majority of the teachers. They constitute a majority in the church.
 xxytfI, v>1n o1r1x.n !, steps already taken in this direction by the Connecticut Daughters of the Revolution. Your little Guida seems to me a capital hand book for the purpose for which it is designed. So far, so good.
 But it is not only the half helpless immigrant who needs your guidance. Something greater than he needs it. It is public opinion.
 Public Opinion is King.
 In our day, in our land, public opinion, is king, and in matters like this, the women can do much to lead and form it.
 What the incoming foreigner needs is not merely to be protected against imposition, and helped towards em- ployment, but the sympathetic pro- lection and sympathetic help. To of fer sympathy with grace, and know how to give it with sincerity, is one of the greatest possessions of woman hood.
 Many of these immigrants and per haps most of them, find one oldtime friend in their church-that church which, all over the world, has a ser- vice, in form about the same, and therefore equally familiar to it's ad- herents in every land. It has a great and deserved influence over these peo- pies. It helps to keep them straight; to keen them in the path of orderly observance of law; to keep them clear of tendencies toward anarchy and towards communism.
 I say then to the Daughters of the Revolution, keep on with your labors for the welfare of the immigrant. They will be repaid. They will help to people our state with men who feel kindly to those with whom they have come to live. They will help to