Aliens or Americans?
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- ALIENS
- OR
- AMERICANS ?
- HOWARD B. GROSE
- With Introduction By Josiah Strong
- UNGUARDED GATES
- TO ONE WHO CHERISHES AMERICAN IDEALS, WHO HAS INCULCATED LOVE OF COUNTRY IN HER CHILDREN, AND SOUGHT TO INSPIRE IT IN ALL—MY WIFE
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION
- I THE ALIEN ADVANCE
- I. A Year's Immigration Analyzed
- II. The Inflow Since 1820
- III. Why They Come
- IV. What the Immigrants Say
- V. Solicitation an Evil
- SUGGESTIONS FOR USING THE QUESTIONS
- QUESTIONS FOR CHAPTER I
- Aim: To Realize Our Responsibility in Receiving One Million Aliens a Year
- References for Advanced Study.—Chapter I
- II ALIEN ADMISSION AND RESTRICTION
- I. Method of Admission
- II. Governmental Regulation
- III. Putting up the Bars
- IV. Excluding the Unfit
- THE DEBARRED FOR THE YEARS 1892-1905
- QUESTIONS FOR CHAPTER II
- Aim: To Realize the Necessity of Just and Adequate Laws for the Admission and Restriction of Immigrants
- References for Advanced Study.—Chapter II
- III PROBLEMS OF LEGISLATION AND DISTRIBUTION
- I. The Present Situation
- II. Proposed Legislation
- III. The Problem of Distribution
- QUESTIONS FOR CHAPTER III
- Aim: To Study the Problems of Legislation and Distribution Regarding Aliens
- References for Advanced Study.—Chapter III
- IV THE NEW IMMIGRATION
- I. New Peoples and New Problems
- "Seven soldiers lost to the Kaiser." (German Consul's remark on seeing this picture)
- II. The Italians
- IMMIGRATION FROM ITALY TO THE UNITED STATES
- NATIVITY OF PERSONS ADMITTED TO ALMSHOUSE (NEW YORK) IN 1900
- PROFESSIONS, TRADES AND INDUSTRIES OF THE ITALIANS ADMITTED IN 1905
- QUESTIONS FOR CHAPTER IV
- Aim: To Consider the Desirability of the Italians as Immigrants, and the Opportunity for Christian Work Among Them.
- References for Advanced Study.—Chapter IV
- V THE EASTERN INVASION
- THE EASTERN INVASION
- I. The Bohemians
- II. The Poles
- III. The Slovaks
- IV. The Magyars or Hungarians
- V. The Lithuanians and Letts
- VI. The Ruthenians
- VII. Other Nationalities
- VIII. The Russian Jews
- QUESTIONS FOR CHAPTER V
- Aim: To Consider the Desirability of the Slavs as Immigrants.
- References for Advanced Study.—Chapter V
- VI THE FOREIGN PERIL OF THE CITY
- I. The Evils of Environment
- II. Tenement-House Life
- III. The Sweat-shop Peril
- IV. Three Constant Perils
- V. The Cry of the Children
- 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
- References for Advanced Study.—Chapter VI
- VII IMMIGRATION AND THE NATIONAL CHARACTER
- I. Two Points of View
- Jewish Girl, Polack Girl Italian Boy, Spanish Boy
- II. American Ideals
- III. Various Effects of Immigration
- IV. The Religious Problem
- RELIGIOUS STATISTICS OF THE IMMIGRATION FOR 1900
- V. The Hopeful Side
- Portuguese Boy and Girl Spanish Boys
- QUESTIONS FOR CHAPTER VII
- Aim: To Realize the Effect of Immigration Upon the National Character and Our Individual Responsibility for Improving Conditions
- References for Advanced Study.—Chapter VII
- VIII THE HOME MISSION OPPORTUNITY
- I. Alien Accessibility
- II. Missionary Beginnings
- III. Protestantism and the Alien
- IV. The Call to Great Things
- V. The Individual Duty
- VI. Basal Grounds for Optimism
- QUESTIONS FOR CHAPTER VIII
- Aim: To Make Hopeful Beginnings a Strong Incentive to Great Expansion of Christian Work for Foreigners
- References for Advanced Study.—Chapter VIII
- APPENDIXES
- APPENDIX A
- TABLE I
- Number of Immigrants Arrived in the United States each Year from 1820 to 1905, both inclusive[100]
- TABLE II
- RACE, SEX, AND AGE OF IMMIGRANTS ADMITTED IN 1905
- TABLE III
- DEBARRED IN 1905, FOR REASONS GIVEN
- Wave of Immigration into the United States from all Countries during 87 Years
- ESTIMATED ARRIVALS 1776 TO 1820 250,000 ARRIVALS 1820 TO 1906 24,032,718
- APPENDIX B
- Table of Acts of Congress Concerning Immigration
- The Principal Excluded Classes
- Crimes Under the Act of 1903
- Laws to Protect the Immigrant
- Legislation Recommended in 1905 by the Commissioner-General of Immigration
- APPENDIX C
- Work of Leading Denominations for the Foreign Population
- MISSION WORK OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN 1906 AMONG THE FOREIGN POPULATION
- MISSION WORK OF THE PRESBYTERIAN HOME MISSION BOARD IN 1906 AMONG THE FOREIGN POPULATION
- MISSION WORK OF THE AMERICAN BAPTIST HOME MISSION SOCIETY IN 1906, AMONG THE FOREIGN POPULATION
- FOREIGN PEOPLES IN BAPTIST CHURCHES, THE RESULTS OF HOME MISSION WORK
- MISSION WORK OF THE CONGREGATIONAL HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY IN 1906
- STATEMENTS SHOWING NUMBER OF CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHES FOR FOREIGN SPEAKING PEOPLES, WITH THEIR TOTAL MEMBERSHIP
- Work of the Protestant Episcopal Church Among the Foreign Population
- Lutheran Work in the United States
- ANALYSIS OF THE IMMIGRATION FOR 1905, WITH REGARD TO RELIGIOUS AFFILIATIONS AND EASE OF ASSIMILATION[102]
- APPENDIX D
- Bibliography
- RACES OF IMMIGRANTS FISCAL YEAR 1905
- INDEX
- FOOTNOTES:
- The Forward Mission Study Courses
- YOUNG PEOPLE'S MISSIONARY MOVEMENT
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