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— i| ll,e seat fartherest l»ck in the Senior How ‘our young est and our fairest sits, t rimful of jollity and good hu-mor. Flossie Is a studious girl: not one to lie found at the foot of her class: and capable of a hearty laugh over even a Physics experiment. Milford is her native town. She was born November 5,1891. For several years it has been her lot to keep the registration hook at our Public School Exhibit, she has tilled this place heroically in spite of her desire to preside over the punch-bowl.
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lion. 2 Expulsion. .'{) Solicitation. The attraction comes from the I’nlted States, the expulsion from the Old World, and the solicitation from the great Transportation lines and their emissaries. Sometimes one cause is more potent than another, depending on the time they come. Sometime ago when the religious persecution was active in Europe, America got the result when it reached Rivington St.. New York. In Italy military services are enforced, taxes rise, people are crowded and then comes poverty. The result is they come to America where high wajfw and steady work is assured. The average wage of Knglund is fifty cents a day. Itussia thirty: Italy sixteen: Hungary twenty: and I'nited States atiout one dollar. Thus we see one reason why they come. If a new mill or factory starts up somewhere in the country, it is only a short time till it is known abroad. The transportation lines are making their work sureand publish these facts as much as |x ssihle for their own gain. The immigrants like the freedom ring that those who have lieen here take back. A Hungarian going back to his native country said. I love the old home, hut I love America more. Stay in Hungary? Oh no: I do not even want to die there: but if I do. I want them to wrap me in thlsshroud.” pulling out tlie stars and stripes. These people have felt tlie uplift of our American free institutions, and they want them for themselves. One of these great questions which the government has to deal with, is that of the distribution of the Immigrants. The masses that crowd to our cities live in unhealthy places and do any work they can get. thus making it a serious matter. If some plan could Ik devised so that they would make good and just citizens, our country would Ik blessed for their coining. Ex-President Roosevelt-said, The need is to devise some system by w hich undesirable immigrants shall lie kept out entirely, while desirable immigrants are properly distributed throughout the country. These that crowd to our cities come in contact with the tenement-house evil. In these buildings, perhaps little lietter than rat-traps, are massed swarms of human lieings. the herding of wlmle families in a single room, in which they sleep, eat, cook and make clothing for contractors, or cigars that would never go into men’s mouths if men saw where they were made. Mr. Robert Hunter makes the statement that there are three hundred sixty thousand dark rooms in Greater New York. Then again the immigrant is the victim of the sweat-shop peril. Sweating is the system of sub-contract wherein tlie work is let out to contractors to Ik done in small shops or at home. The contractor is an organizer and employer of immigrants. The success of such work depends u|h»ii the cheap-« st help, no matter whether it is made in a clean or a dirty place. Another peril is child neglect and lalmr. which means illiteracy, stunted IhkIv and mind, and often w reckage of life. The sight of the throngs of children who are in these tenement districts, w ho know little of ago.xl home, have scanty and irregular meals, and whose surroundings are dirt, foul atmosphere and speech.disease and vice, bring l»e-fore our minds a pitiable sight. Rut perhaps worse than this is the traffic for the la» or of children. In this enlightened country of ours there are over one million seven hundred thousand children under fifteen years of age who are com nailed to work in factories, mines and fields. The greater part of these children are immigrants, and thus they are crippled, deprived of a fair education and a fair chance of life, because their lalxir is cheap. What will the Tinted Statesdo with these people? It is common for one man to swear at them, the semi-Christian to do everything but swear, and the Christian of three-fourths or seven-eights grade to regard them as unworthy a place here or of receiving am spiritual help from American churches. There is only one thing that our country can do with safety to itself make American Christians of the newcomers. We should l e guided in part h.v patriotism, but even more by a spirit of Christian duty. Weowethe debt of love and helpfulness to those that come, as well as a debt of loyalty to the nation. i
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