The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-07

Finally the Commissioner came to l the conclusion that the war had lasted 1 long enough so far as the people at Ellis Island was concerned at least Some of them had been there for | months. He sent for their friends He found jobs for them. He secured i permission from Washington to ad- init them to the country provided they would report regularly to the Govern ment These were the people who had to go back to their native coun- try for some reason or other. Several | hundred were found good positions The men went to factories and mills. The women went to their friends and relatives. They come back to the Isl-
 and from hme to time to attend the concerts or to tell the officials how l they are getting along. The long
 months of waiting made many friend ships. It made some marriages too. For there is no war at Ellis Island. The people do not hate one another no
 matter what country they come from.
 They are like one big family. And the cornmissioner has found jobs for hun
 dreds of men and women in this way. You do not read about the horrors
 of Ellis Island any more. It is not spoken of as ''the Island of Tears" ev- en though many sad things happen
 there. The people of New York
 to visit their friends and to give the
 concerts and entertainments. The inn
 migrants get good food. They are
 protected by the matrons and watch
 men. There are seventy societies
 hot 1,~r t-@
 look after the immigrants and see that they are not imposed on.
 Ellis Island is no longer like pris-
 on. It is more like a home as the
 President wanted it to be. It is a place to help people; to get them start
 ed right; to give them the right inn
 precision of the United States. Ellis
 Island has become the right kind of a
 doorway. It is a doorway to freedom and liberty. and as such it is made as
 kindly and beautiful as possible.
 But the work does not stop at Ellis
 Island. Secretary Of, Labor W. B.
 Wilson found a law on the statute
 books that made it possible for the
 department of labor to find jobs for people, for immigrants as well as citi- zens of the United States. That had never been done before. When one wants a job in the United States he goes to a private employment bureau that charges a fee for the job, often as much as a man earns in a week or two weeks. Some of the employment bureaus are not honest. They get jobs for men knowing that they will be dis charged in a short time but what does the employment agency care after it has gotten it's pay?
 So the government opened up em- pIoyment agencies Of its own all over the United States. They are to be found in nearly all of the large cities. They find positions for men, women and children over 16 years of age. And they make no charge for the ser vice they render. AlNeady tens of thousands of persons have found po- sitions by this means And the peo- pie know thst they are shielded from robbery, for the United States Govern ment stands back of the agencies and if any wrong is done it can 1e imme- diately reported to the department of Labor and be corrected.
 As the Government makes no charge and does not want to make any money, it is only interested in seeing that the man gets the kind of a job he is fitted for and the employer the kind of a man that he wants. This year over 100000 persons will have been found positions by these means; they will have been saved the loss of time no less than the loss of money private agency.
 I,fe f<1 in hi Nh O immigrant Is being protected in his new home. He is given chance to go to work if he wants to. The Democratic Administration of the last four years has done more for the working classes and the immigrant than all the administrations combined for the last fifty years. It has stop ped child labor in all goods made for interstate commerce. This will take little children out of the mills and fac tories and will enable them to go to school and get an education
 This was the Emancipation Procla- nation of the Children. President Wilson secured the passage of the hour day for railway trainmen, for 800, ,000 of them. This means that the men and their families-probably D. 500, 900 all told-will have a chance to enjoy some of the pleasures of life The men will see their wives and chill dren more often. They will have more time at home.
 There never was so much work and at such good wages as there is to-day. This is true all over the United States. We have prosperity and peace-the two things that most people are most interested in., Prosperity at home and peace with all the world. Instead of the boys of America being shot down in the trenches they are at work at good wages. They are at school or college They are saving money with which to buy home. Not only is the immigrant protected as he enters the country; not only is he greeted with kindness-but when he reaches his chosen home he finds an agency there that is ready to look about and find a job for him. If he does not get the one he likes then it will look again until he does find what he wants.
 Whatever the outcome of the war there will probably be millions of peo- pie who will come to the United States when it is over. They will come to find their friends. They will come to escape taxes and mili- tary service, they will come for tho ou- sands of reasons and they will find, if President Wilson is reelected, some one at Ellis Island ready and willing to help them, and aid them and care