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قراءة كتاب Aliens or Americans?
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Coming Americans
FORWARD MISSION STUDY COURSES
EDITED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE YOUNG PEOPLE'S MISSIONARY MOVEMENT
ALIENS
OR
AMERICANS
?
HOWARD B. GROSE
With Introduction
By Josiah Strong
NEW YORK: EATON & MAINS
CINCINNATI: JENNINGS & GRAHAM
Copyright, 1906, by
Young People's Missionary Movement
New York
UNGUARDED GATES
| Wide open and unguarded stand our gates, |
| And through them presses a wild, motley throng— |
| Men from the Volga and the Tartar steppes, |
| Featureless figures of the Hoang-Ho, |
| Malayan, Scythian, Teuton, Celt, and Slav, |
| Flying the old world's poverty and scorn; |
| These bringing with them unknown gods and rites, |
| Those, tiger passions, here to stretch their claws. |
| In street and alley what strange tongues are these, |
| Accents of menace alien to our air, |
| Voices that once the Tower of Babel knew! |
| O Liberty, White Goddess! is it well |
| To leave the gates unguarded? On thy breast |
| Fold Sorrow's children, soothe the hurts of fate, |
| Lift the downtrodden, but with the hand of steel |
| Stay those who to thy sacred portals come |
| To waste the gifts of freedom. Have a care |
| Lest from thy brow the clustered stars be torn |
| And trampled in the dust. For so of old |
| The thronging Goth and Vandal trampled Rome. |
| And where the temples of the Cæsars stood |
| The lean wolf unmolested made her lair. |
—Thomas Bailey Aldrich.
TO ONE
WHO CHERISHES AMERICAN
IDEALS, WHO HAS INCULCATED LOVE OF
COUNTRY IN HER CHILDREN, AND
SOUGHT TO INSPIRE IT IN
ALL—MY WIFE
CONTENTS
| Preface | 9 | |
| Introduction, by Josiah Strong | 13 | |
| I. | The Alien Advance | 15 |
| II. | Alien Admission and Restriction | 51 |
| III. | Problems of Legislation and Distribution | 87 |
| IV. | The New Immigration | 121 |
| V. | The Eastern Invasion | 157 |
| VI. | The Foreign Peril of the City | 193 |
| VII. | Immigration and the National Character | 231 |
| VIII. | The Home Mission Opportunity | 267 |
| APPENDIXES | ||
|---|---|---|
| A. | Tables of Immigrants Admitted and Debarred | 305 |
| B. | The Immigration Laws | 309 |
| C. | Work of Leading Denominations for the Foreign Population | 314 |
| D. | Bibliography | 321 |
| INDEX | 326 | |
ILLUSTRATIONS
| Coming Americans | Frontispiece |
| The Inflowing Tide |