The Immigrant Tide, Its Ebb and FlowSteiner, Edward Alfred
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The Immigrant Tide, Its Ebb and Flow
Steiner, Edward Alfred
United States -- Emigration and immigration
"It is just like you Americans--you go to work to make your dreams come
true."]
cash register we have invented; in spite of my Puritan rebel and her
numerous company--in spite of all that, our land is still full of
dreamers of dreams, who yet are awake and practical enough to make their
dreams come true.
"It is just like you Americans," said General Riciotto Garibaldi, to my
"boys," as they stood together at the foot of his father's monument in
Rome; while he listened to the story of their journeyings in the
immigrants' land, living in their huts in Hungary, Poland and Italy,
learning their language and their ways, that they may know how to
minister to their needs over here, and bind us to them and them to us.
"It is just like you Americans. We Italians think about those things and
make poetry; you go to work at a great dream to make it true."
My faith in the dreams of the great dreamers has never wavered. I knew
that the prophet's vision was not a _Fata Morgana_, and that the words
of the Son of Man came straight from the fountain of truth. Believing in
them and believing in American manhood and womanhood, in their altruism
and in their faith, and believing in the essential humanity of our
crowding alien host--I believe that cosmos is being created and that
chaos will disappear.
Finally, what we teach the immigrant by precept or by example, he will
become. He will bequeath our virtues or our vices, not only to the next
generation which will spring with virgin strength from his loins; but
through thousands of invisible channels, he will send these blessings or
curses to the ends of the earth.
The issues of the Kingdom of God in this generation are with America.
APPENDIX I
CLASSIFICATION OF THE NEW IMMIGRANT GROUPS
The new Immigrant groups which are more difficult to classify according
to race, nationality and religion:
_The Slavs_
I. Western Slavs
_Nationality_
_Name_ _or political division_ _Religion_
Bohemian The Kingdom of Bohemia Roman Catholic
or Czech a province of Austria Protestant
Moravians Moravia Roman Catholic
a province of Austria Protestant
Poles Poland Roman Catholic
divided by the European
powers into
The Russian province of
Poland
The German province of
Posen
The Austrian province of
Galicia
Slovaks A number of districts in Roman Catholic
Hungary chiefly in and Protestant
near the Carpathians
Wends Settlements in Germany, Roman Catholic
Prussia and Saxony Protestant
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