The Old World in the New The Significance of Past and Present Immigration to the American People

As I sought to show, near the end of my initial chapter, the conditions of settlement of this country caused those of uncommon energy and venturesomeness to outmultiply the rest...

There is a certain anthracite town of 26,000 inhabitants in which are writ large the moral and social consequences of injecting 10,000 sixteenth-century people into a twentieth-...

More and more immigration is an economic matter, a flow of men rather than of families, seeking gain rather than religious and political liberty. Those who bring anything but th...

Although Leif Ericson discovered America in the year 1000 A.D., his countrymen made no serious use of his find until the latter part of the nineteenth century. It is only sixty-...

In his defense of Flaccus, a Roman governor who had "squeezed" his Jewish subjects, Cicero lowers his voice when he comes to speak of the Jews, for, as he explains to the judges...

From the outbreak of the Revolution until the fourth decade of the nineteenth century there was a lull in immigration. In a lifetime fewer aliens came than now debark in a coupl...

The immigration question is a live wire and whoever handles it may look for tingling surprises. One is a bit startled on realizing that through the "Bravas" from the Cape Verde...

The immigration from Italy has shot up like Jonah's gourd. During the last decade a fourth of our immigrants have been Italians, and from being a twentieth part of our foreign-b...

More than 5,250,000 people have been contributed to our population by Germany in the last ninety years. Deducting the Poles from eastern Prussia, and counting Germans from Russi...

On a single Chicago hoarding, before the spring election of 1912, the writer saw the political placards of candidates with the following names: Kelly, Cassidy, Slattery, Alschul...

In the dim east of Europe, far from the vertical beams of civilization, lies the melancholy Slavic world, with its 150,000,000 of human beings multiplying twice as fast and dyin...

"God sifted a whole nation that He might send choice grain into the wilderness." So thought the seventeenth century of the migration to Massachusetts Bay in the evil years of Ch...

Submergence of the pioneering breed--Growing heterogeneity-- Primitive types among the foreign-born--How immigration will affect good looks in this country--Effect of crossing o...

Stimulators of migration--The commercial interests behind the movement--The new immigrant as an industrial tool--How tariff protection coupled with the open door augment the man...

The Hibernian domination of Northern cities--Political psychology of the Celts--Practical consequences--Immigration as foe to party traditionalism--Citizenship of the new immigr...

Immigration and social atavism--Community reversions to the Middle Ages--Immigrant illiteracy and ignorance--New readers of the yellow press--The spread of white peonage--Caste...

Volume and causes of the German freshet--Why it has ceased--Distribution of the Germans in America--_Deutschtum_ vs. assimilation--The "Forty-eighters"--Influence of the Germans...

Traits of the Puritan stock--Elements in the peopling of Virginia--The indentured servants and convicts--Purification by free land--The Huguenots--The Germans--The Scotch-Irish-...

The great lull--The Hibernian tide--Why it has run low--Effects on Ireland--Irish-Americans in the struggle for existence--Their improvidence and unthrift--Why they lacked the e...

African, Saracen and Mongolian blood in our immigrants--The Finns--Motives and characteristics--Political aptitude--Patriotism--The Magyars--Social condition and traits--The Por...

Place of the Slavs in history--Lateness of their awakening--Size of the Slav groups in America--Occupational tendencies of the Slavic immigrants--Distribution--Alcoholism--Crimi...

Causes of the Italian outflow--Distribution of Italians--Social characteristics--Broad contrast between North Italians and South Italians--Occupations--Agricultural settlements-...

One-fifth of the Hebrew race in America--"The Promised Land"--Hebrew interest in free immigration--Waves of Russo-Hebrew immigration--Occupational preferences--Morals-- Crime--R...

The size of the Scandinavian wave--Distribution of this element in the United States--Social characteristics--Crime and alcoholism--Occupational choices--Readiness of assimilati...