The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-05-17
AN IMMIGRANT IS WORTH $I,000 so DECLARES GOVERNOR BALD. WIN IN HIS ADDRESS TO PLAINVIILE BUSINESS
 MEN.
THEY DO OUR HARD WORK
He Says That They Merit Kindly Treatment on. the Part of Citizens.

Plainville, May 17.-Gov. Simeon E. Baldwin was the guest of honor at the annual banquet of the. Plainville Business Mems association last night. He made the principal address. speaking particularly upon the influ- ence of foreign immigrants on this country
 sThese people bring us more than they take away" said the governor. ."They merit kindly treatment and a good deal of forbearance on our part. We must make allowance for their ignorance of our ways. our language and our laws. If we do, we snail ma must do by them as we should be done by if we had to work for our living in Poland or Sicily.
 Factories Bring Foreigners.
 "Factories bring the foreigner. They have brought him in great numbers to Connecticut and from many lands.
 DO we want him? Do we want present to the state, or a loan to the state. without interest, of $1, ,0O6? Fvery immigrant who lands on our shores under our present immigration laws. is worth that to the state he settles in. He has been fed and cloth ed and educated without a dollar or expense to us. His education Is gen. erally quite elementary and incom- lCs citizen he will have to add to it. But it has been sufficient at least to tell him that this state is a better place for him to work in than hts old homo was. He is ready to. work and able to work. if he were not, he could not have got past the immigration in- spectors and health officers of the United States. He is ready. generally. to work at anything; to do the hard and dirty and rough jobs, which aH American prefers to avoid when he can. He builds our roads, cleans our 1 city streets and digs our cellars. II we had not had the foreigner we should not have had our trolley sys- tenn. that grjdirons the state. The in.- migrant did the heavy work or lay 1 ing every one of our street railways.
 Less Educated Now.
 .sThey say that the foreigners who come here today arc less educated than those who came hero thirty or l forty years ago. It Is so. The lEisn l here then had had good schooling at l home. There were not three in hundred of them who could not read. l But the man who has hal good scnool- ling. whether he got 1t in Connecticut or in Ireland. is not ready to do day
 laborer's work. For that you neeo l uneducated men, content to do what 1 educated men can do no better and l will not adoaat au
 .'IiSkn TT Sltaltans and Russians and l Syriapa 'st lave come to the United l StateS binre &h century began could l lot read or wxites A third of the l Poles could not.
 "Last year over a million irnmi- 1 grants came to the United States, I Nearly. half of them had been either l day laborers or had had no occupa. | ton at all. Such men can be relied l on to do anything that comes along ! in the line of hard and disagreeable work. Wesshave found them ready. to |l undertake it.
 .sTheir children are. making good American citizens. They. talk Eng l fish, if their father and mother car not. They generally talk two .ian- H 9uaees-that of the school and the N playgroundi and the store,- and that sol the household. Not many Americans
 can do that"