INDEX
Abuses, of immigration privileges and laws, [42], [43], [63-69], [78-84], [92], [93]
Adams, Representative, of Pennsylvania, [74], [97]
Admission, see Immigrants
Africans, [124]
Alabama, [113]
Albany, New York, [22]
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, [3]
Alien, admission, [53-64];
advance in numbers and distribution, [15-50], [102-117];
characterized, [236], [237], [258];
ideas imported, [241];
loss of religious faith, [271];
opinion of America, [272];
protection, [65-68];
restriction, [68-84]
Aliens, classes excluded, [77], [78];
total since American Revolution, [28]
America, duty to guard its own genius, [232];
mission, [10], [269];
must be kept Christian, [271];
unique mission field, [269]
American, Christians, duty of, [10], [11], [44-47];
fair play, [73];
ideals to be preserved, [11], [46], [47], [91], [238], [239], [262];
institutions, [232], [261];
liberty, [117];
Protestantism, [16], [47], [254], [255], [288];
teacher in Syria, [39];
Tract Society, [50];
type of nationality, [11], [45], [46], [92], [238], [240]
Americanization of immigrants, [10], [14], [46], [113], [126], [176], [242];
children promoting, [205], [223], [259], [260]
Anderson, Herbert, [268]
Antwerp, [99]
Appeal, right of, by excluded, [77], [78]
Ardan, Ivan, [181], [182]
Armenians, [124]
Asia, immigrants from, [20], [21], [113]
Assimilation of foreign peoples, [270], [271];
aid to, [293]
Assisted immigration, [43], [77], [93], [101]
Associated Charities of Boston, [96]
Atchison, Rena M., [194], [247]
Attila, [27]
Australians, as immigrants, [22]
Austria, [81], [82]
Austria-Hungary, [92], [165];
immigrants from, [21], [25], [72]
Baldwin, Mrs. S. L., [72], [73]
Baltimore, [53]
Barrows, Dr. S. J., [142]
Battery, the, [54], [62], [108]
Belgians, as immigrants, [21]
Belgium, [29]
Berlin, [199]
Betts, Mrs. Lillian W., [151], [152], [204]
Bible, [34], [167], [174], [283], [288]
"Birds of passage," [71], [135]
Blackwell's Island, [139]
Board of Special Inquiry, [62]
Bohemians, as immigrants, [21], [165-170];
city centers, [166];
freethinking tendencies, [168], [169];
Protestant in spirit, [165-168];
religious work among, [285]
Booth, General William, [194]
Bosnians, [183]
Boston, [24], [53], [83], [198];
Italian Society, [111]
Boyesen, Professor, [28], [89], [90], [234]
Brandenburg, Broughton, [41], [65-68], [82], [97], [98], [101]
Bremen, [82], [99]
Brooklyn, [148]
Brooks, Phillips, [232]
Bryce, James, [200]
Buffalo, [172]
Bulgarians, as immigrants, [21], [183]
Bureau of Information, [110]
Burlington, Iowa, [20]
Calvin, [172]
Cambridge, Massachusetts, [24]
Canada, [27];
ingress from, [53], [77], [92]
Canadians, as immigrants, [21]
Carr, Mr. [138]
Carroll, Dr. H. K., [174]
Castle Garden, [28]
Celtic peoples, [123]
Chandler, ex-Senator, [214]
Chattanooga, Immigration Bureau in, [113]
Chicago, [36], [166-172], [176], [187], [198]
Childhood, the blighting of, [225], [226]
Children, condition of, in great cities, [221], [222];
number of, at work, [224], [226]
Chinese, as immigrants, [21], [40], [72], [73];
converts, [73], [89], [269];
exclusion act, [70], [73];
Sunday-schools for, [289]
Chivers, Dr. E. E., [267]
Chopin, [172]
Christ, [44], [277]
Christian attitude toward immigrants, [44-47], [270];
coöperation and federation, [286];
optimism, [8], [117], [262]
Christianity, converts to, [73];
its first impression for newcomers, [277], [278]
Churches, duty and opportunity of, [270], [282], [286];
abandoning lower New York, [278];
must be missionary, [270];
saving themselves through saving immigrants, [285];
work for foreigners, [289]
Cincinnati, [23]
Citizenship, how degraded, [214]
City, the, bad government of, [200];
conditions of tenement-house life in, [201], [210];
demoralizing influences, [209], [214];
environment offered immigrants, [196], [201-206];
foreignization of, [198], [199], [217];
isolation of foreigners in, [205];
nerve and storm center, [193];
overcrowding, [203], [206];
political evils, [214]
City College, many Jewish pupils in, [189]
Civil War, effect on immigration, [26], [31]
Claghorn, Kate H., [97], [259]
Cleveland, Ohio, [24], [166], [169], [172]
Cleveland, President, [96]
Colonies, foreign, in America, [196], [198], [200], [217]
Colonists distinguished from immigrants, [45], [46]
Columbia University, [13]
Columbus, Christopher, [188]
Commissioner-General of Immigration, [25], [76-78], [83], [92], [93];
of the Port, [77]
Coney Island, [150]
Congestion of foreign elements in cities, [195]
Congress, acts of, [70]
Connecticut, [173], [174], [180]
Consumption, statistics of, [220];
foreign element largely its victims, [220]
Contract labor exclusion, [77], [82], [92];
violation, [82], [83]
Convicts, excluded, [77]
Cook, Joseph, [52]
Coolies, Chinese, excluded, [70]
Coöperation, interdenominational, [286];
of Home Mission Boards, [288]
Copernicus, [172]
Crime, conditions favorable to increase of, [209], [224];
foreigners led into by environment and example, [209]
Croatians, [124], [183]
Czechs, see Bohemians
Dalmatians, as immigrants, [183]
Danes, as immigrants, [21]
Debarred, see Excluded
Democracy, influence of upon aliens, [296], [298]
Denmark, immigrants from, [23]
Detroit, [21], [172]
Discrimination needed as to immigrants, [127]
Diseases guarded against, [57], [59], [60], [74], [77], [78], [93]
Distribution of immigrants, [102-117];
New York state, [105], [107];
New Zealand methods, [116];
North Atlantic section, [105];
Ohio, [107];
Pennsylvania, [105], [107];
railroads assisting, [116];
societies aiding, [107-113];
South Central states, [105];
West Virginia, [107];
Western section, [105]
Dublin, [199]
Dutch, as immigrants, [21]
Eastern invasion, the, [157-192]
Edison, Thomas A., [247]
Educational policy affected by immigration, [246]
Ellis Island, [18], [19], [35], [37], [54], [55], [59]-[62], [74], [83], [99], [100], [108];
missionary workers at, [274];
results of personal efforts at, [275]
Emerson, Ralph W., [247]
English, as immigrants, [19], [21], [126];
language, influence of, [259], [260]
Environment, evil effects of upon children, [243]
Europe, American ideas working in, [33], [34];
immigrants from, [20], [23], [98], [123-192]
Evangelization of immigrants, [10], [16], [46], [47];
accessibility, [294];
illustration of, [283];
most potent factor in Americanizing, [270];
need for extension of, [277];
personal responsibility for, [290];
sporadic, not systematic, [281]
Evasion of immigration laws, [78-83]
Excluded classes, [74-78], [100], [101]
Federation of Jewish Charities, [102]
Financial panics, effect on immigration, [26], [31]
Finns, as immigrants, [21]
Fiume, [82], [99]
Forbes, James, [139]
Foreign-born, distribution of, [107]
Four State Immigration League, [113]
France, [34]
Franklin, Benjamin, [69]
Freethinkers, their societies among immigrants, [168], [169], [180], [285]
French-American College, the, [280]
French, as immigrants, [21]
French-Canadians, Roman Catholic convention of, [257]
Fung Yuet Mow, [269]
Gardner, Representative, of Massachusetts, [95]
Genoa, [99], [132]
Germans, as immigrants, [19], [21], [35], [126]
Germany, immigrants from, [25], [33], [81]
Goodchild, Rev. F. M., [33], [292]
Grant, Ulysses S., [247]
Great Britain, immigrants from, [25], [43], [128]
Greece, [92]
Greek Catholic Church, [182], [184];
Orthodox or Russian State Church, [182]
Greeks, as immigrants, [21], [37], [41]
Hall, Prescott F., [45], [70], [129]
Hamburg, [82], [99]
Havre, [99]
Hebrew, see Jewish, Jews
Herzegovinians, as immigrants, [183]
Hewes, F. W., [107]
Home Missions, at Ellis Island, [274];
demand for extension of in New York, [287];
opportunities of, for local churches, [279];
personal work, [274], [290], [291];
results of abroad, [269];
settlement influences by residence, [292], [293]
Honolulu, [53]
Huguenot colonial stock, [240]
Hungarians, as immigrants, [33], [128], [177-179];
cafés, as social centers, [178], [179];
fair degree of education, [177];
open to mission work, [178]
Hungary, [19], [128]
Huns, [27], [165]
Hunter, Robert, [194], [200]
Huss, John, [166], [170]
Iberic peoples, [123]
Idiots, excluded, [77], [78]
Illiteracy, amount of among immigrants, [22], [24], [125];
test proposed, [95], [96]
Immigrants, admission, [53-64];
"assisted," [43], [93];
approachable, [273], [282];
attracted to the city, [195];
debarred, [70], [71], [77], [78];
diseased, [57], [60], [74], [77], [78], [93], [94];
illiteracy among, [22], [23], see also Illiteracy;
"manifest," [55], [56], [61];
nationality, [21], [22];
"natural," [31-42];
ports and routes of entry, [53], [77];
"solicited," [42], [43], [80-82], [93];
smuggling of, [81], [92];
religious census and conditions, [251], [271];
value of first impression upon, [273];
views of America, [272];
women among, [18], [61], [76]
Immigration, annual volume, [17-22];
Bureau of, [76], [77], [92], [104];
causes of, [29-31];
Christian view of, [8];
classes, [31-43];
Conference of 1905, [90], [91];
divine mission in, [270];
economic fallacies of, [245];
effect upon educational policy, [246];
inspectors and officers, [59-61], [76], [77];
laws, see Laws, immigration;
new development of, [121-155];
numbers since 1820, [25-27];
process by the steerage and Ellis Island described, [55-62];
Restrictive League, [96];
"runner," [80-82];
steamship and railroad arrangements, [55], [57], [62]
Indianapolis, [22]
Indians, North American, [45]
Industrial Commission, [31]
Insane, excluded, [77], [78]
Insanity, low proportion among Italians and Jews, [140]
Institutional church, need of, [286], [288]
Ireland, [27], [43],
immigrants from, [25], [31], [72], [128];
potato famine, [25]
Irish, as immigrants, [19], [21], [38], [39], [89], [126];
compared with the Italians, [136], [137]
Italian, Benevolent Institute, [147];
Chamber of Commerce, [145];
Hospital, [147];
Immigration Department, [138];
Savings Bank, [147]
Italians, as immigrants, [19], [34], [36], [37], [110], [130];
distribution, [135], [136];
family coöperation, [207];
generally peaceable character, [141], [142], [208];
illiteracy, [22], [134];
in New York, [139], [145], [206];
number entering, [19], [134], [135];
parallel drawn with Irish, [136], [137];
societies for mutual aid, [50], [110], [145], [147];
spirit of converts, [284];
thrift, [139-147], [207];
women homemakers, [206];
Italy, [92], [131-133];
government action and aid, [79], [111];
immigrants from, [25], [31], [72], [79], [107];
Royal Department of Emigration, [111];
sections compared, [131-134]
Ives, Mr., [294]
Japanese, as immigrants, [40];
Robinson Crusoe, [40]
Jefferson, President, [68]
Jerome of Prague, [166]
Jersey City, [22]
Jewish children as pupils, [189]
Jews, as immigrants, [21], [95], [96], [113], [128], [185-190];
Austria-Hungarian, [21], [186];
German, [185];
good qualities, [190];
number of in New York, [186], [198];
Roumanian, [186];
Russian, [11], [12], [21], [185-180]
John G. Carlisle, ferryboat, [53]
Joseph II, Emperor, of Austria, [167]
Juvenile Court, Jewish children in, [190]
Kansas City, [22]
Kosciusko, [172]
Kossuth, a Slovak, [175]
Labor, immigration of skilled and unskilled, [23], [24]
Latin races, as immigrants, [113], [131]
Lawrence, Kansas, [20]
Laws, immigration, [58], [64];
Bill of 1906, [95];
problems, [87-119];
protective, [65-68];
restrictive, [68-84];
summaries and recommendations, [309-313]
Lee, Dr. S. H., [136], [152]
Legislation, see Laws, immigration
Letts, the, as immigrants, [179], [180]
Liberty, American, as a working leaven, [33], [34];
statue of, [57], [278]
Lieber, Francis, [194]
Lincoln, Abraham, [247]
Lithuanians, as immigrants, [23], [36], [179], [180];
illiteracy, [23]
Liverpool, [99]
Lodge, Senator, [96]
London, [99]
Long Island, as a field for Italians, [149]
Longfellow, [247]
Louisiana, [113]
Louisville, [23]
Luther, [172]
Lynn, Massachusetts, [24]
Machinery, effect on immigration, [43]
Madison, President, [68]
Mafia, the, [130], [141]
Magna Charta, [34]
Magyars, as immigrants, [21], [177-179];
illiteracy, [23];
see also Hungarians
"Manifest" for immigrant, [55], [56], [61]
Marine Hospital Service, [59]
Marseilles, [99]
Mashek, Nan, [166]
Massachusetts, [142], [173]
Mayo-Smith, Richmond, [52], [231], [238], [248]
McLanahan, Samuel, [121]
McMillan, Margaret, [225]
Mexicans, as immigrants, [21]
Mexico, ingress through, [92], [93]
Michigan, [172]
Milwaukee, [170], [172]
Minneapolis, [21]
Mission workers for immigrants, [274]
Mississippi, [113], [183]
Mitchell, Max, [102]
Mongolic peoples, [124]
Montenegrins, as immigrants, [21], [183]
Moravians, as immigrants, [164]
Music, love of by Bohemians, [169];
by Italians, [144]
Naples, [99], [199]
National Civic Federation, [90];
Slavonic Society, [176]
Naturalization, illegal methods, [93], [196], [214-215];
reading test desirable, [249]
New Amsterdam, [45]
New England, [45], [148], [173], [179];
how it can remain Christian, [270], [271]
New Haven, [23]
New Jersey, [148], [173], [178]
New Orleans, [183]
New York, Bible Society, [50];
State, [69], [70], [105], [107], [178], [213]
New York City, [30-39], [53], [54], [62], [63], [110], [112], [139], [145], [165], [166], [169], [172], [176-189], [198], [200], [220];
chief port of entry for immigrants, [53];
child life and labor in, [220], [221];
consumption in, [220];
cosmopolitan character, [198], [199];
foreign peoples in, [139], [145], [150], [166], [172], [178], [179], [186-189], [195-226]
Norway, [27];
immigrants from, [23], [25], [126]
Occupations, of various races, [23], [24]
Odessa, [99]
Ogg, Frederick A., [92], [93], [99], [100]
Ohio, [172]
Optimism, [8], [29], [262]
Ottawa, Illinois, [20]
Padrones, [82], [92], [111]
Parochial schools among aliens, [246], [256]
Pauperism in the United States, [218];
contrasted with poverty, [217];
foreign percentage of, [219];
increased by immigration, [219]
Pennsylvania, [160-163], [172], [175], [177], [179], [181], [183], [213]
People's Forum in Cooper Institute, [250]
Persecution, affecting immigration, [29], [30], [91]
Philadelphia, [38], [53], [172], [176], [179], [187]
Pittsburg, [82], [172], [174], [176]
Poles, as immigrants, [22], [35], [75], [76], [170-174];
clannish, [173];
illiteracy, [22], [173];
independence, [173]
Polish, Catholics, [174];
girl, story of, [212];
Jew, "sweater," [210];
National Alliance, [170]
Ports, for examination abroad, [98], [99];
of entry, [53]
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, [20]
Poughkeepsie, New York, [20]
Poverty in the United States, [218];
defined, [217]
Presbyterian Slavistic Union, [176]
Protestantism, as related to immigrants, [9], [39], [47], [202], [166-174], [177-188], [216], [224], [251];
could change conditions as to child labor, [225], [226];
ought to save immigrants from moral degeneracy, [255];
vast opportunity to evangelize and Americanize, [267-299]
Providence, Rhode Island, [21]
Public Schools, attacks upon to be resisted, [248];
duty to elevate, [248];
foreign children in, [198], [223], [248];
power to Americanize, [234], [248], [256]
Publicity, value of, [83], [90]
Quarantine, [56], [62]
Railroads and immigrants, [62], [63]
Reich, Emil, [131]
Religious census of immigrants in 1900, [251]
Removal Bureau, for directing Jewish emigrants, [111]
Reports, Commissioner-General, [25], [143]
Riis, Jacob, [194], [216]
Roman Catholic Church, as related to immigrants, [133], [151], [152], [167], [168], [172-174],
[177-184], [247], [248], [251], [256], [257], [271], [297];
efforts to get public money for parochial schools, [246];
some lessons to be learned from, [279]
Roosevelt, President, [51], [73], [88], [92], [96], [179]
Rossi, Adolpho, [138], [147]
Rotterdam, [99]
Roumanians, as immigrants, [19], [21];
see also Jews
Rovinanek, Mr., [174], [175]
Russia, [34], [128];
immigrants from, [25], [81], [217]
Russian empire, [19];
Jews, [11], [19], [112];
persecution, [29], [30]
Saint Louis, [145], [198]
Saint Nazaire, [99]
Saloon, evil effects of, [216], [217]
Sampson, Sidney, [260]
San Francisco, [41], [53], [73], [148]
Saratoga Springs, New York, [20]
Sargent, Commissioner-General, [28], [103], [158], [203]
Scandinavians, [27];
agricultural tendency, [127];
useful immigrants, [19], [21], [126], [217];
small illiteracy, [23]
Schauffler, Dr. A. F, [30], [195]
Schauffler, Dr. H. A., [293]
Scotch, as immigrants, [21], [126];
small illiteracy, [23]
Scotland, [27]
Secretary of Commerce and Labor, [77], [78]
Seelye, ex-President of Amherst, [255]
Servian immigrants, [21]
Settlement service by religion and residence, [292], [293]
Sioux Falls, Iowa, [20]
Slavic home missionaries, [293], [294];
peoples, [124]
Slavs, as immigrants, [21], [79], [107], [113], [127], [128], [157-192];
defined, [159], [160];
displacing other peoples, [160], [162];
illiteracy, [23], [164];
largely unskilled, [164];
migration of recent date, [160];
mostly mine and factory workers, [164];
native workers among, [285]
Slovaks, as immigrants, [174-176];
from agricultural class, [175];
organizations among, [176];
tinware workers, [176]
Slovenians, as immigrants, [183]
Slums, peril of the children in, [220-224];
poverty and pauperism of, [217-219]
Socialism, bred in the slums, [202]
Societies in aid of immigrants by races, [110-112]
Society for Italian immigrants, [50], [110], [111]
Solicitation, as affecting immigration, [42], [43], [80-82], [93]
South American immigrants, [21]
South Carolina, [113]
South, the New, as a field for immigrants, [113]
Southampton, [99]
Spahr, Dr. Charles B., [260]
Spanish immigrants, [21], [217]
Special Inquiry Board, [77]
Speranza, Gino C., [88], [145]
"Stairs of Separation," [62], [63]
Standards of living, lowered through immigration, [244]
States and countries as a scale of immigration, [24], [25], [27], [28]
Statistics of immigration, aliens since Revolution, [28];
arrivals by years from 1820 to 1905, [305];
child labor in New York City, and in United States, [226], [227];
countries by totals, [127-129];
debarred during fourteen years, and by race or people, [77], [303];
distribution by states, [105-107];
entries at ports and through Canada, [53];
estimated immigration for 1905-6, [20];
illiteracy, [21-23], [134], [164];
increase of immigrants for 1905, [25];
inflow since 1820, [25-27];
insanity, [140];
Italians, by years, locality, and occupation, [134], [135], [143];
Jews, chiefly Russian, [185], [186], [198];
labor skilled and unskilled, [23], [24], [134], [164];
mendicancy, [140];
money sent from United States to aid immigrants, [31];
present annual race totals illustrated, [20-23];
race, sex, and age of immigrants for 1905, [306];
religious divisions for 1900, [251];
savings and investments of Italians, [145], [146];
Slavs for 1905, [159],
see also, for distribution and occupation, [165-183];
tendency among Italians to forsake Roman Catholic Church, [271]
Steamships for immigrants, [55], [57];
overcrowding, [65];
rate cutting, [79];
steerage abuses and reforms, [65-68];
unkind treatment, [57], [58], [67];
unsanitary arrangements, [65-67];
violation of laws, [78-84]
Stettin, [99]
Strong, Dr. Josiah, [9-16], [193], [194], [256], [257]
Sunday laws and observance, as affected by immigration, [72], [237], [241], [252-254];
Sunday-schools, among immigrants, [284], [294]
Sweat-shop, description of system, [209], [210];
reproach to Christian civilization, [210];
victims of, [210-213]
Sweden, [27];
immigrants from, [23], [25], [33], [37], [38], [126]
Swiss, as immigrants, [21], [28]
Switzerland, [27], [43]
Syrian immigrants, [23], [39]
Tariff, effect on immigration, [44]
Temperance, large measure of, among Chinese, Italians, and Jews, [73], [141], [190]
Tenement-houses, description of life in, [204-208];
evils of, [201];
exorbitant rents, [202];
model block of suggested, [288];
responsibility of landlords, [202];
unsanitary conditions of, [211]
Tent campaign, winning Italians, [282]
Teutonic peoples, [123]
Texas, [113]
Thompson, Dr. Charles L., [117], [268]
Training schools, needed in work among aliens, [286]
Trieste, [99]
Tuoti, Mr. G., [145]
Turks, as immigrants, [21];
illiteracy, [23]
Tymkevich, Paul, [158]
United Hebrew Charities, [111], [219], [277]
United Kingdom, see Great Britain
United States, agencies of helpful to immigrants, [50], [54], [57-63], [111], [274];
"assisted" immigration to, [43], [93];
attraction of, [29-42];
Immigration Investigating Commission, [112], [113];
Industrial Commission on Immigration, [141];
legislation as to immigrants, see Laws, immigration;
money from relatives in, to aid immigrants, [31];
national songs, [34];
Post-office, an immigration agency, [33];
see also Commissioner-General of Immigration, Ports of entry
Venice, [199]
Vincennes, Indiana, [20]
Virginia, [45], [175]
Vote, foreign, peril of, [249]
Walker, General Francis A., [232]
Ward, Robert D., [194]
Warne, F. J., [157], [158], [162], [246]
Warsaw, [199]
Washington, city of, [24];
President, [68]
Watchorn, Commissioner Robert, [30], [82]
Welsh, as immigrants, [21], [126]
Whelpley, J. D., [16], [70], [79], [94], [101]
Wisconsin, [167]
Women immigrants, [18], [35], [38], [39], [57], [61], [67], [75], [76], [304];
special inspection for, [61], [76]
Work of leading denominations for foreign population, [314-320]
Yiddish language, [198]
Young people, as creators of public sentiment, [197];
opportunity of for Christian service, [10]
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