Aim: To Consider the Desirability of the Italians as Immigrants, and the Opportunity for Christian Work Among Them.
I. Contrast the Old and New Immigration.
1. What is the New Immigration?
2. What has become of the earlier immigrants? Was their coming a benefit to the United States?
3. Would your judgment concerning it have been the same when they were coming?
4. What races have gained and what have lost in their respective proportions?
II. The Italians.
5. What are the leading types at present? What are they likely to be in the future?
6. Mention opposing opinions as to the Italians? Which seem to you nearer the truth?
7. What differences are there between Italians from different parts of Italy?
8. From what class come most of the Italians now arriving? Of what sex? What age? What skill?
9. How has Italian immigration grown in numbers? How has it been distributed?
10. What proportion go West and South? Are efforts being made to attract them anywhere?
III. Are the Italians a Desirable Class of Immigrants?
11. How do they compare with the early Irish immigrants? With other nationalities?
12. What is the record of Italians in this country; as to work, citizenship, self-support, crime, temperance, thrift, care for education, financial ability?
13. Have many Italians taken to farming? Do they succeed? What sort of farming?
14. What efforts are being made to direct and distribute the Italian immigrants?
IV. What is the Opportunity of the Christian Church Among Them?
15. Do you know of any specific effort to uplift them through Christian influences?
16. Does this chapter make you feel that the churches can do more for them? How?