IX. THE ORIENTAL 188

X. RACIAL INFILTRATION 208

XI. THE GUARDED DOOR 221

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE 235

INDEX 241




OUR FOREIGNERS

CHAPTER I

OPENING THE DOOR


Long before men awoke to the vision of America, the Old World was the
scene of many stupendous migrations. One after another, the Goths, the
Huns, the Saracens, the Turks, and the Tatars, by the sheer tidal
force of their numbers threatened to engulf the ancient and medieval
civilization of Europe. But neither in the motives prompting them nor
in the effect they produced, nor yet in the magnitude of their
numbers, will such migrations bear comparison with the great exodus of
European peoples which in the course of three centuries has made the
United States of America. That movement of races--first across the sea