Produced by Dave Kline, Janet Blenkinship and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net [Illustration: 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 Caesars 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 CHAPTER PAGE 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 ILLUSTRATIONS Coming Americans Frontispiece