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This is a book of facts and not theories. The author has had no partisan proposition to prove, or measure to advocate, but has simply aimed to collate all facts bearing upon this important subject, and so arrange them that they may tell their own story and teach their own lessons. The book aims to be thoroughly non-partisan, non-sectarian and non-sectional, and directs its appeal to the candid judgment and patriotic feeling of every true lover of the American Republic.

The lax administration of our immigration laws, which has made our European immigration practically unrestricted, has added much to our burdens of crime, pauperism and illiteracy. In this work are found, condensed and’ compared, the latest investigations on these important topics, as well as facts showing their bearings upon industrial, educational, municipal and national problems.

The comparison therein given of the voting power of the native and foreign elements of the several states, together with the analysis of the racial elements by states and cities, has important sociological bearings. This book deals exhaustively with every phase of this important question. In short,it deals with the American problem of the twentieth century. It aims to state that problem soclearly,in terms so simple,that every patriot can read its meaning and appreciate its magnitude.

Dr. Joseph Cook, in his introduction to the work, says: “The present writer has nowhere met with a more judicious and convincing presentation than the following volume contains of our perils from lax immigration laws. This is a book of telling facts and of sound and far-reaching inferences on the increasing mischiefs of unsifted immigration. Mrs. Rena Michaels Atchison, of Chicago, has long been known as an expert in this branch of sociological discussion. Her treatise is timely, incisive, and strategic both inthe exhibition of the great evils it describes and, in the suggestion of remedies.”