10. =As others see us.= HUGO MUENSTERBERG, _The Americans_, pp. 229-254. Questions 1. What has been the relative rate of increase of population in your own state during the last two decades? Has the rate been more or less rapid than that of the nation as a whole? To what features is the difference due? What racial elements are strong in the population of your state and in what industries are each of these elements chiefly engaged? 2. What have been the impelling causes of immigration from (_a_) Germany; (_b_) Ireland; (_c_) Italy; (_d_) Russia? 3. Give four reasons why most immigrants settle in the cities. 4. Explain the principal effects of immigration upon (_a_) the growth of industry; (_b_) the scale of wages; (_c_) municipal politics; (_d_) the public school system (including evening schools, etc.). 5. Which races are the most difficult to assimilate and why? 6. Make some definite suggestions as to how the conditions of the negro race can be made more tolerable in this country. 7. Should Japanese as well as Chinese be excluded by law from immigrating to the United States? Give your reasons. 8. What mistakes are we most likely to make in our zeal for the Americanization of non-English speaking immigrants? Topics for Debate 1. The period of residence required for the naturalization of aliens should be extended to more than five years. 2. Aliens ought to be debarred from employment on national, state, and municipal work. 3. The national government should take jurisdiction over and prevent all racial discrimination by the state. ----- Footnote 7: The following table shows the increase, by decades, in round figures: 1790— 3,900,000 1840— 17,000,000 1890— 62,900,000 1800— 5,300,000 1850— 23,100,000 1900— 75,900,000 1810— 7,200,000 1860— 31,400,000 1910— 91,900,000 1820— 9,600,000 1870— 38,500,000 1920—105,000,000 1830— 12,800,000 1880— 50,000,000 From this it will be seen that the ratio of increase is declining. The population increased about one-third in each decade from 1790 to 1860; by about one-fourth in each decade from 1860 to 1890; by about one-fifth in the two decades from 1890 to 1910; and by less than one-sixth in the decade from 1910 to 1920. Footnote 8: It is customary to think of India and China as very densely populated; but both have fewer than 225 inhabitants to the square mile. Footnote 9: A map showing the progress of the center from East to West will be found facing this page. Footnote 10: Mr. H. G. Wells, in his interesting book entitled _When the Sleeper Wakes_, gives a picture of what the world will be like if all its inhabitants live in cities, and the country workers are carried back and forth by rapid transit. Footnote 11: