Miele in the _World’s Work_; to The Macmillan Company for the selections by Angelo Patri and E. G. Stern; to The Macmillan Company and The Outlook Company for the selections by Jacob Riis; and to Mr. Otto H. Kahn and to Mr. John Kulamer for the selections appearing under their names. The selections by Mary Antin and Abraham M. Rihbany, and the one from Carl Schurz’s “Abraham Lincoln” are used by permission of, and by special arrangement with, Houghton Mifflin Company, the authorized publishers of their works. Thanks are here also cordially given to those persons, including several authors not mentioned above, who, by their courtesies and encouragement, and in a number of instances by specific suggestions, have assisted in the work of compilation and editing. CONTENTS[1] PAGE INTRODUCTION 9 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 15 PHILIP SCHAFF 20 Cosmopolitan Character of “American Nationality” 21 FRANCES D’ARUSMONT 29 The Constitution and Establishment of the Federal Government 30 FRANCIS LIEBER 33 A German Immigrant Points Out the Dangers of Segregation 34 Political Liberty in America 36 CARL SCHURZ 38 An Immigrant’s Tribute to Lincoln 39 “True Americanism” 40 EDWIN LAWRENCE GODKIN 44 An Immigrant’s Faith in Democracy 45 JOHN BOYLE O’REILLY 52 “The Exile of the Gael” 52 “The Pilgrim Fathers” 54 “Liberty Lighting the World” 55 “America” 57 HANS MATTSON 58 Scandinavian Contribution to American Nationality 59 JACOB RIIS 61 “A Young Man’s Hero”: An Immigrant’s Tribute to Roosevelt 63 JACOB VAN DER ZEE 66 “Why Dutch Emigrants Turned to America” 67 EDWARD BOK 71 OSCAR SOLOMON STRAUS 72 “America and the Spirit of American Judaism” 73 FELIX ADLER 77 The American Ideal 78 MARY ANTIN 82 An Immigrant’s Tribute to the Public School and to George Washington 83 “The Law of the Fathers”: A View of the Declaration of Independence 89 ABRAHAM MITRIE RIHBANY 91 America Offers Something Better than Money 92 An Immigrant Tells his Struggles with the English Language 94