The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-07-31
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WE WELCOME YoUI
"a Greeting to Newcomers From
Other Lands"
Conducted by the National Woman's
Christian Temperance Union.)

Other Lands"
(This greeting, in seven different
languages and illustrated with the
American flag in colors, is given to
immigrants landing at our different
ports of entry.)
We welcome you to Jul great Re
public! We welcome you to it's free
public schools; its free libraries and
reading rooms; to the free picture
galleries and pleasant parks of our
great cities; to the vast grain fields
and rich farming lands of the Col
den West, to your new home-east,
west, north or SOUTH! While you
will always love the beautiful flag
of your own land, we hope you will
also love our red, white and blue
flag with it's forty-eight shining stars
for the forty-eight states of this big
Republic, which stretches from the
Atlantic to the Pacific ocean. This
flag floats over free public schools,
which are attended by thousands of
boys and girls, who have come to US
from other lands.
Perhaps you left your steamer feel
ing sad and lonely because you were
a stranger In a strange land. If so,
we hope it will comfort you to know
and realize that every member of the
Woman's Christian Temperance I'm
ion, a society organized in ten thou
sand cities, towns and villages of
America, is your sincere friend. We
hope some kind wearing the
little white ribbon bow, the badge of
our organization, was the first to greet
you as you stepped upon our shores.
We wish we might take from your
heart all its homesick feeling. We
hope you will soo find a pleasant
home in our country. Among u
members there are many women from
other lands and we cordially invite
you to join us, and to help us increase
the prosperity of our country, and
make it a safer and happier nation.
We should love to have the boys and
girls unite with our temperance So
ciety for the children, called the
Loyal Temperance Legion.
If you reached the United States
through the port of New York, you
rejoiced to see, as you entered the
harbor, the Goddess of Liberty-the
majestic figure of a woman holding
aloft a flaming torch to enlighten the
world. Yes. this is the land of true
personal liberty; for each individual
has the liberty to make the most of
himself or herself and to become a
useful, educated, upright man OF wom-
an. Some of the most prominent po-
sitions in business and government
are filled by the children of parents
who were born in other lands. They
are the governing power in many of
our large cities, and in some of u
states. Thousands of Norwegians,
Swedes, Germans, Italians, and men
and women of other nationalities,
now Americans, are enthusiastically
aiding in our temperance work. When
you have become an American citi-
zen, we hope you will vote against
the saloon and against the manufac-
ture and sale of all alcoholic liquors.
In many states, women as well as
men, are citizens and can vote.
The headquarters of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union are at
Evanston, Illinois, but wherever you
may make your home you will receive
from those who wear the little white
ribbon bow, a warm and true wei.
come.