Part 3 (1/2)

AIM: TO REALIZE OUR RESPONSIBILITY IN RECEIVING ONE MILLION ALIENS A YEAR

I. _To Learn by Comparison the Magnitude of a Million Aliens._

1. At what rate per annum is our population now being increased by immigration?

2. What are the sources of this invasion? Its princ.i.p.al gateway?

3. What comparison helps you most to realize the number of immigrants?

4. What are some of the largest groups in the ma.s.s, as cla.s.sified by nationality? By race? By knowledge or ignorance? By fitness for labor?

5. What states may be compared with last year's arrivals?

II. _To Realise the Proportion of Our Population that has Immigrated since 1820._

6. How does the total number of our immigrants compare with the population of Germany? England? Canada?

7. Has the number of immigrants been increasing steadily? Will it tend to increase?

8. Has the present rate been long continued? What proportion of the population of the United States is derived from immigration subsequent to the American Revolution?

9. * Do you think there is any serious menace in such large numbers of immigrants? Why?

III. _Why do Aliens Come_?

10. Name the princ.i.p.al causes of immigration. The princ.i.p.al cla.s.ses.

11. What American ideals have the greatest attractive power? What opportunities?

12. Give some typical instances of immigrants' stories. * Would you have wished to come under the same circ.u.mstances?

13. What other forces stimulate immigration to the United States?

What agencies?

IV. _What Should be our Att.i.tude toward Aliens, and What is our Individual Responsibility for Them_?

14. * What is the Christian att.i.tude toward these newcomers? How can we remove prejudice?

15. * What is our personal responsibility as Christians in improving the condition of aliens?

REFERENCES FOR ADVANCED STUDY.--CHAPTER I