The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-09-05
EDITORS ARE TOI
CANDIDATE v|E
ON Immigration
Voluntary Newcomers Should
Be Admitted and All
Others Barred
COUNTRY NEEDS TO
HIT UPON STANDARD
There Is SomeSense, He D.
clares, in Bringing Over u
Men Only Of In
itiative


Woodrow Wilson spoke for the firzfa
time tonight in New York city, y Y
the Democratic nominee for ~
presidency. s*S
The address was delivered at th&s
dollar dinner of the Woodrow VIII
son Workingmens league
Before going to the dinner. thl28
governor met two score editors m
foreign language newspapers ut tH&
National Arts club, .Gramercy paFI
and talked immigration to them. Hz
said:
There has sprung up in varinu
parts of this country, notably
northern New York, a movement Gn1t%
ed the social-center- movement cHxxx
fering in the schoolhouses. st3rs
pose every one of you has Realised &
that the immigrant gets his real intr6S
duction to the life OF this conntx{
through his children who 60 to nh 4
public schools 81 Rsazy3
The children feel they are intx11i
dneed into American life sooner tlaS
their parents do When ynu ilnaE {i3
movement which makes the se10&
\ hasises tha center OF the rc0menMa4 1TE
life of a neighborfIood, the neigh hQ94 e
gathering there In the evening III *
going TO school to one another IN fl
discussion of public affairs and n
those matters which concern qa1
equally, you are imagining the thin1
which is likely to be more potent thu
any other to restore the originMx
character Of America sNz
Town Meeting Important. ~
4 have always held with IeK6x
| son that the breeding ground U1sas
America used to lie in the town neA&ssS
ing, OF which everybody was mem
Der. and where all public of1cetx
without distinction, had to come md
render account of themselves ri i
a great deal easier to do this in wrIf@a
ing than to appear before a body o&
your fellow citizens and answer queM
tons. s33
Il was told that an immigrant Whit
had been in this country severaHS
years was drawn into one OF these
schoolhouse meetings. and after f
was over. he said. ss:gS
AT last | have seen the AmerteSI3
7 OF which | dreamed. the Amer1cS
! where everybody. where men OF aIt
I conditions meet together and disc6&
/ the same things as nefghbors, aH2S
where that discussion renders 7
| public office heedfui of public opfni69
| The thought in my mind Ii thiIf
! That man brought. to America
/ more vivid conception of Amer365
/ had who have refused to allow IN
i schoolhouses to be used for such p1a1
/ poses, Ss
Views ON Immigration.
IF we can hit upon a standaN
which ADMITS every voluntary
| grant ano eAciuues those Wno 90
not come OF their own motion,
! their own purpose % making n0l
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IN oyarsnnnliaa Ia hor marLat SS1s
| IS .oinp - he ,,nhann,n ssS sIef1rIS77
/ fian evervthing that Will he ASxf
| mental Ia the community ~ we35
/ ia the Immigrant,
! therefore it's Il, the tntar~sS
| government TO supply. or III w
rata encourage. the instrumen taIll3
..mA.eA-xiu- -prexent that very ti,l
viii multiply the ports 81 entryg5
that purpose and ease ana f4rifff
and guide the process of distri
ton. and above all thinxr. supptv
syYepathette Information which II
only welcome acceptable to those II
come.
| ..Your newspapers ana n,nwani
are nuhiished In Languages whirh
! NOT the general language ~ Amer
which IL modified. EnE1fsh. hsik 81
/ this stage OF the melting nat
| cess every Language in which I'd
/ ,,rtnt !, napar l. iarrea, u,,s,xI si.tss3
! United States and for che conyS@7
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