CHAPTER III. Failure to Utilize Immigrants in City Government

FAILURE TO UTILIZE IMMIGRANTS IN CITY GOVERNMENT

Democratic governments must reckon with the unsuccessful if only because they represent majority of citizens 62

To demand protection from unsuccessful is to fail in self-government 63

Study of immigrants might develop result in revived enthusiasm for human possibilities reacting upon ideals of government 64

Social resources of immigrants wasted through want of recognition of old habits 65

Illustrated by South Italians’ ability to combine community life with agricultural occupations, which is disregarded 66

Anglo-Saxon distrust of experiments with land tenure and taxation illustrated by Doukhobors 67

Immigrant’s contribution to city life 69

Military ideals blind statesmen to connection between social life and government 70

Corrupt politician who sees the connection often first friend of immigrant 71

Real statesmen would work out scheme of naturalization founded upon social needs 72

Intelligent co-operation of immigrants necessary for advancing social legislation 74

Daily experience of immigrants not to be ignored as basis of patriotism 75

Lack of cosmopolitan standard widens gulf between immigrant parents and children 78

Government is developing most rapidly in its relation to the young criminal and to the poor and dependent 79

Denver Juvenile Court is significant in its attitude toward repressive government 81

Good education in reform schools indicates compunction on the part of the State 83

Government functions extended to care of defectives and dependents 84

Ignores normal needs of every citizen 85

Socialists would meet the needs of workingmen by socialized legislation, but refuse to deal with the present state 86

At present radical changes must come from forces outside life of the people 87

Imperial governments are now concerning themselves with primitive essential needs of workingmen 88

Republics restrict functions of the government 90

Is America, in clinging to eighteenth-century traditions, losing its belief in the average man? 91