Preface

The war has brought to all the peoples of the world a new epoch in the history of immigration, an epoch in which the achievement of economic assimilation is of prime importance to America and in which the extension of international understanding and sympathy is of great moment to each immigrant and to all countries.

If this book shall be an incentive to fuller and more dispassionate discussion, to further research, to the extension of knowledge, and to a more scrupulous attention on the part of thoughtful Americans to the broad aspects of immigration, the end must then be a more humane, sagacious and sane American policy on immigration which will be respected at home and honored throughout the world.

If I have been able to view this complicated subject from various aspects, it is due in large measure to the great kindness and helpfulness which have been extended to me in my association with the late Theodore Roosevelt and business men like the late Frank Trumbull and Felix M. Warburg, Coleman du Pont, W. Redmond Cross, Gano Dunn, John H. Fahey, A. J. Hemphill, Myron T. Herrick, William Loeb, Jr., Cyrus H. McCormick, Charles A. Munroe, William Fellowes Morgan, John E. Otterson, John H. Patterson, John T. Pratt, Julius Rosenwald, William B. Thompson, Guy E. Tripp, Frank A. Vanderlip, Paul M. Warburg, Daniel Willard, John Williams and many others; with lawyers and educators like Franklin K. Lane, Charles E. Hughes, Louis Marshall, Abram I. Elkus, Arthur E. Holder, John H. Finley, Clarence N. Goodwin, Adelbert Moot, Joseph C. Pelletier, Otto A. Rosalsky, Herman Schneider, Jacob Gould Schurman, and John L. Wilkie; and with racial representatives like Bertalan Barna, Charles W. Bowring, Jose Camprubi, Constantine Carusos, Gustav Danzis, Albert Hlavac, Halvor Jacobsen, Vincent F. Jankovski, Emil F. Johnson, Vahan H. Kalendarian, Marcel Knecht, Samuel C. Lamport, Rodney T. Martinsen, Stefano Miele, S. A. Mokarzel, Thomas D. Neelands, Peter A. Pabstel, Leo Pasvolsky, Alexander Petrunkevitch, M. I. Pupin, John F. Smulski, Antonio Stella, Albert Tyck, and Abraham Yohannan. I am also especially indebted to Dr. Albert Shiels and Donald F. Stewart for cooperation in the preparation of the manuscript, and to the many collaborators who have assisted in the gathering of data.