The Immigrant

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Excerpt from The Immigrant: And the Community Americanization of the immigrant has been a popular slogan for the past few years. Gratitude for the wonderful opportunities offered to him has been counted upon as a sufficient incentive to complete assimilation. The patriotic zeal of the foreign-born citizens has been manifested in every crisis, the recently arrived immigrants have not lagged behind. And this has lulled us into the comfortable belief that we have earned their hearty coöperation. A study of the laws, federal and state, and of their actual administration, daily contact for many years with hundreds of newcomers, listening to their tale of exploitation, fraud and abuses, have enabled Miss Abbott to picture most vividly the perils which await these men and women who are ignorant of our language, from the moment they leave Ellis Island, and which we ignorantly or complacently have so long tolerated. This experience has also enabled her to point out the methods of remedying these conditions. Better legislation, wiser administration, and a keener sense of obligation in every citizen are the essentials. How adequately America's duty to the immigrant has been performed is clearly shown in every chapter of the book. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.