Appendix Iv

SUGGESTED CHANGES IN IMMIGRATION LAWS

I. The examination of all emigrants at the port of embarkation.

Objections

(a) The maintenance of an expensive machinery which will be hard to direct and control.

(b) The possible objections of the governments concerned.

(c) The prospective emigrant will necessarily have taken the most serious steps; and rejection at the port of entry will not be a much greater misfortune than rejection at the port of embarkation.

(d) That it will be practically impossible for political offenders to leave their country.

II. "That in addition to the restriction imposed by the laws at present in force, the head tax of four dollars now collected, should be increased to ten."

Objection

This would increase the number of immigrants who come here without their families, and consequently would react upon the United States both morally and financially.

Suggestion

That the ten dollar head tax be collected from adults, and that the present tax of four dollars remain in force for children and possibly for mothers.

III. "That each immigrant, unless he be a political refugee, should bring with him not less than twenty-five dollars, in addition to the amount required to pay transportation to the point where he expects to find employment."

There is no valid objection to this demand--and the vast majority of immigrants are able to meet it.

IV. "That immigrants between the ages of fourteen and fifty years should be able to read a section of the Constitution of the United States, either in our language, in their own language, or in the language of the country from which they come."

Objection

The demand for such a test is not unreasonable, and is humane in that it exempts the young and the aged; but it does not take account of the fact that in most immigrant groups, the education of the woman has been neglected--and that the enforcement of such a law would have the same effect as that which relates to the increase in the head tax.

Suggestion

That the literacy test be not applied to the wives of immigrants.

INDEX

Albania, 300, 302, 305-307

Amerikansky Schtore, 108

Anarchist, 291, 322

Anti-Semitism, 286

Armenia, 351

Austria, 287

Bacon, Judge, 283

Baldwin, 302, 305-306, 309

Beisel, Conrad, 232

"Bessie," 170 ff.

Black Hand, 291

Calabria, 174

Campagna, 176

Cattero, Boche de, 248

Chautauqua, 305, 309

Chicago, 86, 87

Chorvat, Jan, 130 ff.

Columbus, 244

Connecticut, 200, 353

Connellsville, 192, 331, 341, 344

Constitution of United States, 323

Cracow, description of, 112; hatred of Germany in, 113; Jews in, 113; political condition in, 114

Criminals, 322

Czechs, 212

Dalmatia, conditions in, 138; government, 139; America a blessing to, 147

Dowie, Charles A., 89

Edwards, R. H., 334, 336, 345

Ellis Island, 170

Emigrants, views of Americans, 82 ff.; effect of return of, 72-75

Fansher, Guy J., 308

Gabriel, 256 ff.

Garibaldi, 357

"Gemeinschaft," 222

Greensburg, Pa., 344

Grose, Howard N., 317

Harrisburg, 343

Hartford, 315, 349, 351

Harvard, 264-266, 340

Hazleton, 353 ff.

Hungary, 260, 287, 295

Huss, 209

Hussite movement, 221

Introduction, letters of, 112

Italy, church of, 177; dark side of emigration from, 173; effect of emigration on Italy, 166; on wages, 174; on education, 175; on religion, 176; on women, 178; on economic conditions, 179; on purchase of land in, 174

Italians, bad, 195

Jamestown, 306-307, 310

Japanese question, 194

Jew, the, prevalence of persecution of, 260; Jewish feeling of superiority, 261; religious feeling alone does not account for prejudice, 262; Prof. Shaler's comparison of Jewish and Gentile students, 264; Jewish incapacities, 267; the Orthodox, 272; nowhere indigenous, 275; characteristics, 279 ff.

Kisheneff, 277

Kopaniczari, meaning of word, 93; savage appearance, 94; view of fires, 94; of cameras, 95; of medicine, 96

Kortia, 310

Lewis, H. S., 282

London County Council, 283

Lo Perfido, Luigi, 177

Luther, Martin, 210, 221

Matera, 177

Mayflower, The, 341

Medical science in Trenczin, 96, 97

Methodist Church, 176

Molocani, 187

Monastir, 307

Montenegro, Prince of, 153; minister of exterior of, 152; festivities of, 154; emigration from, 155; neighbours of, 156, 164; legend of origin, 158; national dress of, 160

Passover, Feast of, 262

Pennsylvania, 334, 342

Pietor, Ambrosius, 223

Pittston, Pa., 320, 345

Poland, best type of, 116; in miniature, 117; federation of, 122

Police, American, 49; Indianapolis, 251; Moscow, 250; St. Petersburg, 250

Polish labourer in America, 65

Polish nobleman, a, 119

Polish peasantry, American influence on, 118

Postal Savings Bank, 193

Ragusa, guslar of, 142, 149 ff.; returned emigrants in, 143; and Coney Island, 144; an evening in, 145

Roberts, Peter, 318

Rohacek, 134

Roosevelt, 297

Ross, Prof., 335

Rousseau, 241

Roy Sisters, the, 132

Ruskin, 241

Ruthenians, 78, 190, 207

Scanderberg, 306

Scharosh, 329, 339

Scranton, 163, 192, 200, 331, 341, 344

Shaler, Prof. N., 262, 266-267

Sicilians, 339

Skutari, 301, 305

Slavs, progress in social scale, 23; slow to emigrate, 93; lack of initiative, 118; future of, 120; characteristics of, 121, 205 ff.; numerical supremacy, 203; condition at home, 204; dangers in Slavic emigration, 211; industrial development impossible without them, 191; late product of civilization, 215; an Aryan people, 216; Southern group of, 217; Western group, Catholic, 218; priests among, 220; the reformation among, 221; speech, 77; conception of Slovaks, 190; ideas of drink, 201

Slovak, slowness of, 125-127; evangelistic effort among, 134; returned emigrants, 128, 136

Sonnenschein, 275

Spalato, 185, 248

"Stary Kray," 24, 25

Stelzle, Charles, 317

Streator, Ill., 331-332, 338, 391

Syrian children, 352

Taft, President, 309

Taylor, Prof. Graham, 200, 284

Third class travel, 77, 79

Tolstoi, 241

Trenton, N. J., 195

Turk, M. H., 307-308

Vienna, University of, 296

Waag, the River, 124

Wages, 166

Wallachians, 78

Watchorn, R., 277

Welsh miners, 339

Wilkes-Barre, 192, 238, 331, 341, 344

Y. M. C. A., 258, 318, 323-324

Printed in the United States of America

* * * * *

HOME MISSIONS

JOHN T. FARIS Author of "Men Who Made Good"

The Alaskan Pathfinder

The Story of Sheldon Jackson for Boys. 12mo, cloth, net $1.00.

The story of Sheldon Jackson will appear irresistibly to every boy. Action from the time he was, as an infant, rescued from a fire to his years' of strenuous rides through the Rockies and his long years' of service in Alaska, permeate every page of the book. Mr. Faris, with a sure hand, tells the story of this apostle of the Western Indians in clear-cut, incisive chapters which will hold the boy's attention from first to last.

JOSEPH B. CLARK, D.D. The Story of American Home Missions

Leavening the Nation:

New and Revised Edition. International Leaders' Library. 12mo, cloth (postage 10c.), net 50c.

This standard history of the Home Mission work of all denominations in America, has been thoroughly revised and brought up-to-date.

MARY CLARK BARNES and DR. LEMUEL C. BARNES

The New America

Home Mission Study Course. Illustrated, 12mo, cloth, net 50c. (post. 7c.); paper 30c. (post. 5c.).

This, the regular text-book for the coming year is on the subject of immigration. The author is eminently fitted for writing on this theme as she has been a worker among immigrants, and has given much time to studying the problem.

LAURA GEROULD CRAIG

America, God's Melting Pot

Home Mission Study Course. Illustrated, 12mo, paper, net 25c. (postage 4c.).

The subject chosen for study this year, Immigration, covers so wide a field that it was thought best to prepare a supplemental text book from an entirely different standpoint. The author has written a "parable study" which deals more with lessons and agencies than with issues and processes.

LEILA ALLEN DIMOCK

Comrades from Other Lands

Home Mission Junior Text Book. Illustrated, 12mo, paper, net 25c. (postage 4c.).

This book is complementary to the last volume in this course of study, Dr. Henry's SOME IMMIGRANT NEIGHBORS which treated of the lives and occupations of foreigners in our cities. This latter tells what the immigrants are doing in country industries. Teachers of children of from twelve to sixteen will find here material to enlist the sympathies and hold the interest of their scholars.

* * * * *

BIOGRAPHY

DAVID LIVINGSTONE

The Personal Life of David Livingstone

By W. Garden Blaikie, D.D. Complete Authorized Edition, with Portrait and Map. International Leaders' Library. Cloth, (postage 10c.), net 50c.

For fifteen years this book has remained the Standard Life of Livingstone. The book is of especial interest just now when all the world is observing the Centennary of Livingstone's birth.

"After all the years that have intervened it still remains the most complete, authentic and inspired of all the biographies of Livingstone."--The Bookman.

FRANCES WILLARD

Frances Willard: Her Life and Her Work

By Ray Strachey. With an Introduction by Lady Henry Somerset. Illustrated, 8vo, cloth, net $1.50.

A notable new life of the great temperance advocate written by an English woman from an entirely new standpoint. Mrs. Strachey, the granddaughter of the author of "A Christian's Secret of a Happy Life," had immediate access to Miss Willard's letters, journals and papers, and the benefit of her grandmother's advice and knowledge.

Israel Zangwill says of the book, "A masterpiece of condensation, an adequate biography of perhaps the greatest woman America has produced. Nobody can read this book without becoming braver, better, wiser."

MRS. S. MOORE SITES

Nathan Sites:

With an Introduction by Bishop William F. McDowell. Oriental Hand-Painted Illustrations. 8vo, cloth, gilt top, net $1.50.

This is one of the notable books of the year. China looms large in current political and religious interest, so that this life story of one who for nearly half a century has been closely identified with social and religious reform in that country must have a large place in current literature. The book is more than ordinarily notable also because of its profuse and beautiful illustrations.

G. L. WHARTON

Life of G. L. Wharton

By Mrs. Emma Richardson Wharton. Illustrated, 12mo, gilt top, cloth, net $1.25.

A biography of a pioneer missionary of the F. C. M. S., written by a devoted wife who shared the experiences of her husband in a long service in India and Australia. It is a life of unusual interest and an important addition to the annals of modern missionary effort.

ROBERT E. SPEER, D. D.

The Foreign Doctor: "The Hakim Sahib"

A Biography of Joseph Plumb Cochran, M.D., of Persia. Illustrated, 12mo, cloth, net $1.50.

Dr. Cochran came to a position of power in Western Persia which made his life as interesting as a romance. He was one of the central figures in the Kurdish invasion of Persia, and was the chief means of saving the city of Uramia. In no other biography is there as full an account of the actual medical work done by the medical missionary, and of the problem of the use of the political influence acquired by a man of Dr. Cochran's gifts and opportunities.

HENRY D. PORTER, M.D., D.D.

William Scott Ament Missionary of the American Board to China.

Illustrated, 8vo, cloth, net $1.50.

A biography of one of the most honored missionaries of the Congregational Church, whose long and effective service in China has inscribed his name high in the annals of those whose lives have been given to the uplift of their fellowmen.

MARY GRIDLEY ELLINWOOD

Frank Field Ellinwood Former Secretary Presbyterian F. M. Board

His Life and Work. Illustrated, cloth, net $1.00.

A charming biography of one of the greatest missionary leaders of the Nineteenth Century.--Robert E. Speer.

ANTONIO ANDREA ARRIGHI

The Story of Antonio the Galley Slave

With Portrait, 12mo, cloth, net $1.25.

"Reads like a romance, and the wonderful thing about it is that it is true. A fervid religious experience, a passion for service and good intellectual equipment were his splendid preparation for a great missionary work among his countrymen in America."--Zion's Herald.

GEORGE MULLER

George Muller, The Modern Apostle of Faith By FREDERICK G. WARNE.

New Edition, including the Later Story of the Bristol Orphan Home.

Illustrated, cloth, net 75c.

"What deep attractiveness is found in this life of the great and simple-hearted apostle."--Christian Advocate.

KINGSTON DE GRUCHE

Dr. Apricot of "Heaven-Below"

Illustrated, 8vo, cloth, net $1.00.

"No one who has read this book will ever afterwards repeat the threadbare objection, I don't believe in missions."--Continent.

A "Vade Mecum" on Immigration

The Immigrant

An Asset and a Liability

By FREDERIC J. HASKIN

Author of the "American Government"

Illustrated, 12mo., cloth, net $1.25

The wide-spread attention focused on this theme makes "THE IMMIGRANT, An Asset and a Liability" especially timely. No other book of this kind gathers into itself the consideration of so many phases of the subject and for this reason it admirably supplements the several text books on the topic. In brief, lucid replies it answers questions like these:

"Why do the immigrants come?"

"How do they come?"

"How are they treated at ports of entry?"

"What helps and what hindrances meet them?"

"Where do they go?"

"What are the relations of immigration and the white slave traffic?"

"Who is the padrone?"

"What is peonage?"

"How does the new immigrant live?"

"What of the future?"

Mr Haskin has succeeded to a remarkable degree in investing the subject of Immigration with intense interest. The story of the greatest human migration of all the ages is told in vivid, incisive and picturesque style. The three centuries of this great world movement are spread out before the reader like a panoramic parade of all nations. Accurate historical statement, philosophic presentation of the underlying principles and a judicial consideration of the ultimate influence on our country characterize this latest and in many respects most satisfactory and complete handbook.

FOOTNOTES:

"The Neighbours," pp. 110-114.

"The Jew in London," Russel-Lewis, pages 171-173.

"Studies on American Social Conditions. Immigration." By Richard Henry Edwards, p. 9.

"Social Psychology," Ross, p. 140.

Report of Commission of Immigration of the State of New York, pp. 182 and 185.

Report of Commission of Immigration of the State of New York, p. 183.

Estimated.

Actual figures.

Protect the Workman. John Mitchell, The Outlook, Sept. 11, 1909.