-CHAPTER I

I. Compare modern immigration with the migration of peoples in
earlier times; for example, those of the Hebrews, Aryans, Goths,
Huns, Saracens, and other races.

Any good Encyclopedia or General History.

II. What resemblances and what differences between the Colonial
settlement of America, and the later immigration, say, during the
Nineteenth Century?

III. _The Causes of Immigration._

Hall: Immigration, II.

Lord, et al: The Italian in America, III, VIII.

Warne: The Slav Invasion, III, IV; 78, 83.

Holt: Undistinguished Americans, 35, 244-250.

IV. What agencies can you name and describe that are trying to
receive the immigrants in a humane and Christian spirit? For
example, the United States Government, American Tract Society, New
York Bible Society, Society for Italian Immigrants, and other
organizations and agencies. Study especially any that work in your
own neighborhood.

_As for immigrants, we cannot have too many of the right kind, and
we should have none of the wrong kind. I will go as far as any in
regard to restricting undesirable immigration. I do not think that
any immigrant who will lower the standard of life among our people
should be admitted._--President Roosevelt.

II

ALIEN ADMISSION AND RESTRICTION

Unrestricted immigration is doing much to cause deterioration in the
quality of American citizenship. Let us resolve that America shall be
neither a hermit nation nor a Botany Bay. Let us make our land a home
for the oppressed of all nations, but not a dumping-ground for the
criminals, the paupers, the cripples, and the illiterate of the world.
Let our Republic, in its crowded and hazardous future, adopt these
watchwords, to be made good all along our oceanic and continental
borders: "Welcome for the worthy, protection to the patriotic, but no
shelter in America for those who would destroy the American shelter
itself."--_Joseph Cook._

It is not the migration of a few thousand or even million human beings
from one part of the world to another nor their good or bad fortune that
is of interest to us. We are concerned with the effect of such a
movement on the community at large and its growth in civilization.
Immigration, for instance, means the constant infusion of new blood into
the American commonwealth, and the question is: What effect will this