come the better day when government would stand for freedom,
opportunity and progress, rather than the sword, prison,
banishment and oppression.

America has been the great inspirer of the world.

Since the dawn of the twentieth century more than 10,500,000
immigrants have entered the United States. Through the pressure of
economic conditions a large proportion of immigrants and their children
are forced into the centers of poverty, crime and disease, the slum
districts of our great cities, and into huge colonies in industrial
centers where they both receive and contribute to conditions that have
become pathological for the community, real sources of infection, both
mental and physical. It is therefore not surprising to find that the
children of immigrants reared in American cities contribute twice as
many criminals as the sons of native whites of native stock. Our great
industrial centers show an enormous aggregation of foreigners. It is
said that these contain seven millions of the Slavs, the Latins, and
the Asiatics, and those whose racial background makes difficult the
conception of a democracy and their assimilation into it.

We confront a condition of grave peril to industrial interests as well
as to our national well-being when, in addition to the overcoming of
racial background, we must add the retarding effect of the segregation
of large foreign colonies in mining and industrial centers. Great numbers
of these aliens do not expect to become American citizens, but are here
only to accumulate sufficient capital to return. "Of all the immigrants
now comingone-third return to Europe and two-thirds of all those who
return remain there." These constitute largely a mobile migratory and
disturbing, unskilled wage-earning class.