Aliens or Americans?Grose, Howard B. (Howard Benjamin)
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Aliens or Americans?
Grose, Howard B. (Howard Benjamin)
Noncitizens -- United States; United States -- Emigration and immigration
Statistics of immigration, aliens since Revolution, 28;
arrivals by years from 1820 to 1905, 305;
child labor in New York City, and in United States, 226, 227;
countries by totals, 127-129;
debarred during fourteen years, and by race or people, 77, 303;
distribution by states, 105-107;
entries at ports and through Canada, 53;
estimated immigration for 1905-6, 20;
illiteracy, 21-23, 134, 164;
increase of immigrants for 1905, 25;
inflow since 1820, 25-27;
insanity, 140;
Italians, by years, locality, and occupation, 134, 135, 143;
Jews, chiefly Russian, 185, 186, 198;
labor skilled and unskilled, 23, 24, 134, 164;
mendicancy, 140;
money sent from United States to aid immigrants, 31;
present annual race totals illustrated, 20-23;
race, sex, and age of immigrants for 1905, 306;
religious divisions for 1900, 251;
savings and investments of Italians, 145, 146;
Slavs for 1905, 159,
see also, for distribution and occupation, 165-183;
tendency among Italians to forsake Roman Catholic Church, 271
Steamships for immigrants, 55, 57;
overcrowding, 65;
rate cutting, 79;
steerage abuses and reforms, 65-68;
unkind treatment, 57, 58, 67;
unsanitary arrangements, 65-67;
violation of laws, 78-84
Stettin, 99
Strong, Dr. Josiah, 9-16, 193, 194, 256, 257
Sunday laws and observance, as affected by immigration, 72, 237,
241, 252-254;
Sunday-schools, among immigrants, 284, 294
Sweat-shop, description of system, 209, 210;
reproach to Christian civilization, 210;
victims of, 210-213
Sweden, 27;
immigrants from, 23, 25, 33, 37, 38, 126
Swiss, as immigrants, 21, 28
Switzerland, 27, 43
Syrian immigrants, 23, 39
Tariff, effect on immigration, 44
Temperance, large measure of, among Chinese, Italians, and Jews, 73,
141, 190
Tenement-houses, description of life in, 204-208;
evils of, 201;
exorbitant rents, 202;
model block of suggested, 288;
responsibility of landlords, 202;
unsanitary conditions of, 211
Tent campaign, winning Italians, 282
Teutonic peoples, 123
Texas, 113
Thompson, Dr. Charles L., 117, 268
Training schools, needed in work among aliens, 286
Trieste, 99
Tuoti, Mr. G., 145
Turks, as immigrants, 21;
illiteracy, 23
Tymkevich, Paul, 158
United Hebrew Charities, 111, 219, 277
United Kingdom, see _Great Britain_
United States, agencies of helpful to immigrants, 50, 54, 57-63,
111, 274;
"assisted" immigration to, 43, 93;
attraction of, 29-42;
Immigration Investigating Commission, 112, 113;
Industrial Commission on Immigration, 141;
legislation as to immigrants, see _Laws, immigration_;
money from relatives in, to aid immigrants, 31;
national songs, 34;
Post-office, an immigration agency, 33;
see also _Commissioner-General of Immigration, Ports of entry_
Venice, 199
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