The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-27
TAFT SPEAKSAT
 POLISH MEETING Gives His Views on Immi-
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PRAISE FOR POLACKS
Need of Better Class of Foreigners in America and the Part the Polish People Arc
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 Cambridge Springs. Pa, october B. President Taft came 10. Cambridge Springs today He delivered an address at the dedication of the Polish. College in this town. He said:
 We are met to dedicate a college founded by and to be conducted under the auspices of the Polish National Al lance. This expression on the part of the Polacks of the United states of a desire to perpetuate in the land of their adoption the highest institution of learning for the purpose of furnishing to their educated youth an opportunity for the study of the language. the lit erature and the history of Poland pre- sents an interesting phase of the set tlement of this country by immigrants from European countries. If such an institution as we are now welcoming into life were to have the effect ot separating into an isolated community the Polacks who came to this country or preventing them from learning the
 
 terest in the body polite of the United States, and of minimizing their sense of loyalty to the government and coun- try of their adoption, then 1t might be questioned how far those of us who are not Polacks and whose first inter est is that of the country at large should encourage this effort. Fortu- rately no such narrow limiting motive actuates the movement the Polish AL lance has in view.
 Experience has shown the free air of America creates q natural tendency on the part of those who come to live with us and enjoy our institutions to learn the language, to fuse with other peoples and to take an active part in the politics of the country dating back from the first test in ringing liberty ' bell and releasing themselves from for clgn testimonials of tyranny. In the end 1t will be the privilege of the in- migrants to amalgamate If family of foreigners arrives in America tt hnds the children picking up quickly the English language, and if 1t would pre- serve it's own language, 1t must be in- sisted on by family discipline.
 Praise for Polacks
 Tie Polaclxs are peuple having qual tiles that We can well afford to embody mto our national hospitality. Genefohs and brave to faull warm hearted they have both the winning ways tth he irishman and urbanity and delightful manners of the French. With innate love for the picturesque and poetry they cherish all the traditions and legends and customs that add so much pleasure to their home life. They are agrarians. They love the soil. They know how to till it. Perchance through force of cir cumstances they have been brought ifo iudstrlal channels in this country more so than they themselves would like and more so than they will themselves be of our country. We are suffering from congestion of labor in the large cities and a light quota in the ooun- tryside We need farmers. We want farm laborers. The increase In the value of the products of the soil and the better emoluments now derived from farms are in the end certain to attract laborers and farmers to the country, and in this movement there are no people in the world who are better adapted to be successful than tine Polacks.
 Science of Farming
 Farming has now become a scientific profession. The problems we have here are the problems of the old world in- tensined, and we are bound to make one acre in the future grow as much as two acres grow now, an old world struggle. In this struggle with nature the Polacks can be counted on as some of our best future agents. The great body of our people are of English de- scent They have inherited that ten dency to take their pleasure sadly which was characteristic of the Puritans and indeed of all Engllshmen.
 The Polacks are Celts, or rather they are Slavs and they resemble Gelts. They have the philosophy of getting pleasure in life that the Puritan par took little of and from which the Puri- tan American descendant can emulate. They are exclusively artists in every sense. In music they have Chopin, d peer among masters second only to Liszt in the great school of harmony that needs no further recitation.
 Immigration
 1T can close OH the question of lmml- grafton and it's protection against unde- sirables by lovers of our country Of America for Americans,' an attitude well taken. I am one of those who think America is great now, but will have greater advantage in the future because of the infusion into our midst of the sturdy peasantry and the better educated classes who have come to LIS from tae European nations. In the actual develop ment of the country 1t would have been impossible Tor us to have done what has beer done, what has been done in the construction Of railroads, in the develop ment of our farms and in the establish ment of our industries had we not had the strong arms and clear heads of those who have come to us from continental Europe.
 .'Assuming that the foundation of our country and the original people here were from the islands of Great Britain and Ireland. and treating the foreign question as now one of immigration from con- tenental Europe, repeat that 1 do not share in the fear that our citizenship Is ultimately jeopardized by the coming in from other continental countries, outside of the Occident. for the permanent set clement among the peoples now here. Wo have perfect right to have and ought to have immigration laws that shall pre- vent our having thrown into our midst undesirable persons who are criminally inclined, the Insane and those of virulent infirrnitles. We have vast territory here in which we are interested in developing through constant and persistent effort,