Democracy and Assimilation: The Blending of Immigrant Heritages in America

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Macmillan, 1920 - 275 страница
 

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Страница 15 - The United States must be neutral in fact as well as in name during these days that are to try men's souls. We must be impartial in thought as well as in action, must put a curb upon our sentiments as well as upon every transaction that might be construed as a preference of one party to the struggle before another.
Страница 57 - Labor, have access to aliens who have been admitted to the United States for the purpose of presenting, either orally or in writing, the special inducements offered by such State or Territory to aliens to settle therein.
Страница 27 - I say plainly that every American who takes part in the action of a mob or gives any sort of countenance is no true son of this great democracy, but its betrayer...
Страница 125 - ... neither shalt thou make marriages with them ; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son. For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of Jehovah be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly.
Страница 125 - When the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou...
Страница 57 - When any state or territory appoints and maintains an agent or agents to represent It at any of the Immigrant stations of the United States, such agents shall. under regulations prescribed by the...
Страница 57 - It shall be the duty of said division to promote a beneficial distribution of aliens admitted into the United States among the several States and Territories desiring immigration. Correspondence shall be had with the proper officials of the States and Territories, and said division shall gather from all available sources useful information regarding the resources, products, and physical characteristics of each State and Territory...
Страница 205 - ... also in sanitation, in the English language, in household duties — such as purchase, preparation, and use of food, and clothing — and in the fundamental principles of the American system of government and the rights and duties of citizenship.
Страница 40 - I make half of the tobacco and cigars. And yet I am the great American Problem. When I pour out my blood on your altar of labor, and lay down my life as a sacrifice to your God of Toil, men make no more comment than at the fall of a sparrow. My...
Страница 77 - American civilization" may come to mean the perfection of the cooperative harmonies of "European civilization" — the waste, the squalor and the distress of Europe being eliminated — a multiplicity in a unity, an orchestration of mankind.

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