4. What are some of the largest groups in the mass, as classified by nationality? By race? By knowledge or ignorance? By fitness for labor? 5. What states may be compared with last year's arrivals? II. _To Realise the Proportion of Our Population that has Immigrated since 1820._ 6. How does the total number of our immigrants compare with the population of Germany? England? Canada? 7. Has the number of immigrants been increasing steadily? Will it tend to increase? 8. Has the present rate been long continued? What proportion of the population of the United States is derived from immigration subsequent to the American Revolution? 9. * Do you think there is any serious menace in such large numbers of immigrants? Why? III. _Why do Aliens Come_? 10. Name the principal causes of immigration. The principal classes. 11. What American ideals have the greatest attractive power? What opportunities? 12. Give some typical instances of immigrants' stories. * Would you have wished to come under the same circumstances? 13. What other forces stimulate immigration to the United States? What agencies? IV. _What Should be our Attitude toward Aliens, and What is our Individual Responsibility for Them_? 14. * What is the Christian attitude toward these newcomers? How can we remove prejudice? 15. * What is our personal responsibility as Christians in improving the condition of aliens? REFERENCES FOR ADVANCED STUDY.--CHAPTER I I. Compare modern immigration with the migration of peoples in earlier times; for example, those of the Hebrews, Aryans, Goths, Huns, Saracens, and other races. Any good Encyclopedia or General History. II. What resemblances and what differences between the Colonial settlement of America, and the later immigration, say, during the Nineteenth Century? III. _The Causes of Immigration._ Hall: Immigration, II. Lord, et al: The Italian in America, III, VIII. Warne: The Slav Invasion, III, IV; 78, 83. Holt: Undistinguished Americans, 35, 244-250. IV. What agencies can you name and describe that are trying to receive the immigrants in a humane and Christian spirit? For example, the United States Government, American Tract Society, New York Bible Society, Society for Italian Immigrants, and other organizations and agencies. Study especially any that work in your own neighborhood. _As for immigrants, we cannot have too many of the right kind, and we should have none of the wrong kind. I will go as far as any in regard to restricting undesirable immigration. I do not think that any immigrant who will lower the standard of life among our people should be admitted._--President Roosevelt. II ALIEN ADMISSION AND RESTRICTION