body." And it is the children of the immigrants who are thus
sacrificed to Mammon, the pitiless god of greed. Shall our Christian
young people have no voice in righting this wrong? Within a generation
they can put an end to it, if they will. Here is home missionary work at
hand, calling for highest endeavors.

QUESTIONS FOR CHAPTER VI

AIM: TO SEE CLEARLY THE DANGERS ARISING FROM CONGESTION OF
FOREIGNERS IN OUR CITIES, AND THE BEST WAYS OF GUARDING AGAINST
THEM

I. _Foreigners in Cities._

1. What are the chief causes of the following: (1) the rapid growth
of great cities; (2) the existence of slums; (3) the settling of
immigrants in colonies?

2. Is your knowledge of the lives of the poor sufficient to move
you to work for their redemption? Are any of those persons, about
whom we have studied, your neighbors?

3. Is the prevailing tone of New York and other cities American or
Foreign? Give illustrations.

4. What is the prevailing tone in city government? Is there any
connection between the answers of these last two questions?

II. _Tenement-House Evils._

5. Where do most of the foreigners settle first in the United
States? Of what races is the mass chiefly composed?

6. Describe the conditions under which they live. Do they find them
so or make them so?

7. What remedies can be applied to tenement-house conditions? What
do the workers among them think of the needs and prospects?

8. What can be done toward improvement by the family? the school?
the city government?

III. _Prevalent Abuses._

9. Do the slum conditions tend to contaminate new arrivals? Do they
actually deteriorate?

10. What is the worst industrial feature of the tenement-house
districts? Describe its workings. Tell of some typical sweat-shop
workers.

11. What political evils flourish in the congested districts?

12. What moral and social evils flourish in the congested
districts?

IV. _Effects upon the Poor and the Children._

13. What relation does immigration hold to pauperism and poverty?
To conditions of health?

14. Name some of the principal authorities for the preceding
answers? How would you answer those who disputed their statements?

15. Can you give any facts as to child labor? What do you think of
the policy of employing children?

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