The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-26
PRESIDENT AT
 DEDICATION OF
 POLES COLLEGE
Taft Makes Address at This In- sfitutiOn of Learning Under Auspices of the Polish Ma tional Alliance, at Cambridge Springs, Pa., Today

Cambridge Springs, Pa, Oct. 26.--- The following address was delivered by President Taft at the dedication of the Polish College at Cambridge Springs, today:
 we are met, today, to dedicate a college conducted under the auspices of the Polish National Alliance. This Oft of the United States. of a desire to perpetuate in this, the land of their adoption. the highest institution of phase Of the settlement of this coun- try by immigrants from European countries.
 freedom America creates on the part of those who come to live with us and enjoy our institutions to learn, to amalganate with other: people and to tics of the country is so strong as to arouse no fears that, in the end it will not be the natural and prevail ing force in all of our foreign popu- 1ation. Indeed, the force with which they celebrate their national anniver- saries and review the great deeds of their national heroes, instead of de- tracing from their loyalty to their new home and government, seems, as the years go by, to strengthen that loyalty and to make them better Americans because, as in the present instance. they are better Pohes.'
 President Taft next sketehed at
  and their work. He then said:
 e.It is indeed a sad commentary on the gratitude of peoples and nations to read the history of John Sobieski the greatest of the kings of Poland and of the Polish kings and note how the fate of Europe hung upon the lively small force. carried on against hordes of warriors that Islam and the Greek Turk was enabled to throw across the Austrian and Polish boun- Ia Yd nd ha other cities. The tender letter which Sobieske wrote to his wife describing light in the history of Europe.
 .The Poles are people having qualities that we can we'll afford to incorporate into the composite Amer tionaI hospitality is creating. Having, in the first place, the highest spirit of hospitality themselves, they are able to appreciate it with proper con- when they themselves re- ceive it.
 We are suffering from a conges- ton of labor in the large cities and a dearth of labor in the country. We need farm laborers. The increase in the value of products of the soil and the better ennoIuInents now derived from farming are in the end certain to attract farmers and 1aborers to the country in this movement there are ter adapted to, be successful than the Poles Farming has now become d scientific professionss. The. problems 5a Ms haxe here are as problems ina of the bound to make an acre grow twice as much as it grows now. The Poles may be counted on as some of our
 esOf course, this college we are founding is not the first Institution of liberal learning that the Poles have erected.
 4.I cannot close without some ref erence to the question of immigration and the attitude that ought to be taken by the lovers Of our country. am one of those who believe that America is greatly better in her pres ent condition and will have still cause of the infusion into our body, polite and social, of the ssturdy peas antry and the classes who have come to US from the nations of Europe. In the actual development of the coun- try it would have been impossible for us to have done what has been done in the construction of railroads, in the development of our farms, and in the esta blishments of our industries, had it not the strong arms and the steady hands of those who have come to us from continental Europe.
 Assuming that the foundation of our country and the original people Britain and Ireland and treating the 1 foreign question as one now of inn from contin mental Europe l repeat that I do not share in the fear
 
 Iy to suffer by the coming from other l continental countries of Europe for the purposes of permanent settle | m ent of any of the peoples who are now coming
 .tI have an abiding faith in the in f1uence of our institutions on all whoJ come here. no matter how lacking in l they may be, if they have the sturdy enterprise to leave home and to come out to this new country to seek their fortunes
 ssI am proud of our country that we have had it's doors swinging easily | open to the industrious peoples of 1 other countries that have sought ours l for greater happiness and quicker development and he would be blind 1 indeed who would deny that a. sub stantIal part of our progress is due to this policy of generosity toward those who are seeking the atmosphere of freedom