The New Immigration

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Excerpt from The New Immigration: A Study of the Industrial and Social, Life of Southeastern Europeans in AmericaThousands of cabin passengers cross the ocean for pleasure, the steerage passengers, almost to a man, seek a better country. The steamship companies study the comfort and convenience of the pleasure seeker, but the necessities of the true emigrant have had the least possible attention. Steerage conditions have often been denounced as a disgrace to civilization and remedies have only been effected by the lash of legal enactment. Emigrants Who came to America in sailing vessels previous to the sixties of the last century, can never forget the steerage conditions under which they came. The dread of hunger and of thirst, the terrible ravages of ship fever and epidemics, the absence of conveniences which common decency demands, -these ordeals still hang as a pall in their memories, and more than half a century of life in the United States has not been able to obliterate the impression. The throes of that voyage made two generations ago are still rehearsed with a feeling which can only be explained by the abject misery endured.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.