In all I have told, I have aspired to be an interpreter and not an enumerator; a mediator and not a critic; I have desired to create contacts and not divisions; to disarm prejudice and not give it new weapons.
In this book, as in all the others I have written, I am indebted to my wife; not only for doing all the tedious tasks such work involves, but also for inspiration and the creation of an atmosphere in which I could write in superlative terms of American ideals.
I wish to acknowledge the courtesy of the editors of the Outlook and the Review of Reviews in permitting me to reprint portions of this book.
I heartily thank the Y. M. C. A. of Pennsylvania and Mr. E. B. Buckalew, its efficient State Secretary, for the opportunity to gather material in that state and in Europe; the young men who made up the Pennsylvania Expedition for the Study of Immigration, who were helpful, joyous comrades, and the trustees of Grinnell College, Iowa, for a generous leave of absence.
E. A. S.
Grinnell, Iowa,
August, 1909.
CONTENTS
| [PART I] With the Outgoing Tide | ||
|---|---|---|
| [I.] | “They That Go Out in Ships” | [15] |
| [II.] | The Price They Pay | [34] |
| [III.] | A Murderer, Mary and an Honorary Degree | [46] |
| [IV.] | Reflex Influences | [62] |
| [V.] | Our Critics | [77] |
| [VI.] | The Doctor of the Kopanicze | [93] |
| [VII.] | “Moschele Amerikansky” | [102] |
| [VIII.] | “Noch ist Polen Nicht Verloren” | [112] |
| [IX.] | The Disciples in the Carpathians | [124] |
| [X.] | The Guslar of Ragusa | [138] |
| [XI.] | Where the Angel Dropped the Stones | [152] |
| [XII.] | “The Hole From Which Ye Were Digged” | [165] |
| [PART II] With the Incoming Tide | ||
| [XIII.] | Problems of the Tide | [185] |
| [XIV.] | The Slav in the Immigrant Problem | [203] |
| [XV.] | The Slav in Historic Christianity | [215] |
| [XVI.] | From Ephrata to Whiskey Hill | [227] |
| [XVII.] | From the Lovczin to Guinea Hill | [242] |
| [XVIII.] | The Jew and the Christian | [259] |
| [XIX.] | The Jew in the Immigrant Problem | [276] |
| [XX.] | From Fifth Avenue to the Ghetto | [290] |
| [XXI.] | From Lake Skutari to Lake Chautauqua | [300] |
| [XXII.] | The Protestant Church and the Immigrant | [311] |
| [XXIII.] | Twenty-five Years with the New Immigrant | [329] |
| [XXIV.] | From Chaos to Cosmos | [348] |
| [Appendix I] (Classification of the New Immigrant Groups) | [359] | |
| [Appendix II] (Net Immigration to the United States 1899-1908) | [362] | |
| [Appendix III] (Industrial Depression and Immigration) | [364] | |
| [Appendix IV] (Suggested Changes in Immigration Laws) | [366] | |
| [Index] | [368] | |