Abuses, of immigration privileges and laws,42,43,63-69,78-84,92,93Adams, Representative, of Pennsylvania,74,97Admission, seeImmigrantsAfricans,124Alabama,113Albany, New York,22Aldrich, Thomas Bailey,3Alien, admission,53-64;advance in numbers and distribution,15-50,102-117;characterized,236,237,258;ideas imported,241;loss of religious faith,271;opinion of America,272;protection,65-68;restriction,68-84Aliens, classes excluded,77,78;total since American Revolution,28America, duty to guard its own genius,232;mission,10,269;must be kept Christian,271;unique mission field,269American, Christians, duty of,10,11,44-47;fair play,73;ideals to be preserved,11,46,47,91,238,239,262;institutions,232,261;liberty,117;Protestantism,16,47,254,255,288;teacher in Syria,39;Tract Society,50;type of nationality,11,45,46,92,238,240Americanization of immigrants,10,14,46,113,126,176,242;children promoting,205,223,259,260Anderson, Herbert,268Antwerp,99Appeal, right of, by excluded,77,78Ardan, Ivan,181,182Armenians,124Asia, immigrants from,20,21,113Assimilation of foreign peoples,270,271;aid to,293Assisted immigration,43,77,93,101Associated Charities of Boston,96Atchison, Rena M.,194,247Attila,27Australians, as immigrants,22Austria,81,82Austria-Hungary,92,165;immigrants from,21,25,72Baldwin, Mrs. S. L.,72,73Baltimore,53Barrows, Dr. S. J.,142Battery, the,54,62,108Belgians, as immigrants,21Belgium,29Berlin,199Betts, Mrs. Lillian W.,151,152,204Bible,34,167,174,283,288"Birds of passage,"71,135Blackwell's Island,139Board of Special Inquiry,62Bohemians, as immigrants,21,165-170;city centers,166;freethinking tendencies,168,169;Protestant in spirit,165-168;religious work among,285Booth, General William,194Bosnians,183Boston,24,53,83,198;Italian Society,111Boyesen, Professor,28,89,90,234Brandenburg, Broughton,41,65-68,82,97,98,101Bremen,82,99Brooklyn,148Brooks, Phillips,232Bryce, James,200Buffalo,172Bulgarians, as immigrants,21,183Bureau of Information,110Burlington, Iowa,20Calvin,172Cambridge, Massachusetts,24Canada,27;ingress from,53,77,92Canadians, as immigrants,21Carr, Mr.138Carroll, Dr. H. K.,174Castle Garden,28Celtic peoples,123Chandler, ex-Senator,214Chattanooga, Immigration Bureau in,113Chicago,36,166-172,176,187,198Childhood, the blighting of,225,226Children, condition of, in great cities,221,222;number of, at work,224,226Chinese, as immigrants,21,40,72,73;converts,73,89,269;exclusion act,70,73;Sunday-schools for,289Chivers, Dr. E. E.,267Chopin,172Christ,44,277Christian attitude toward immigrants,44-47,270;coöperation and federation,286;optimism,8,117,262Christianity, converts to,73;its first impression for newcomers,277,278Churches, duty and opportunity of,270,282,286;abandoning lower New York,278;must be missionary,270;saving themselves through saving immigrants,285;work for foreigners,289Cincinnati,23Citizenship, how degraded,214City, the, bad government of,200;conditions of tenement-house life in,201,210;demoralizing influences,209,214;environment offered immigrants,196,201-206;foreignization of,198,199,217;isolation of foreigners in,205;nerve and storm center,193;overcrowding,203,206;political evils,214City College, many Jewish pupils in,189Civil War, effect on immigration,26,31Claghorn, Kate H.,97,259Cleveland, Ohio,24,166,169,172Cleveland, President,96Colonies, foreign, in America,196,198,200,217Colonists distinguished from immigrants,45,46Columbia University,13Columbus, Christopher,188Commissioner-General of Immigration,25,76-78,83,92,93;of the Port,77Coney Island,150Congestion of foreign elements in cities,195Congress, acts of,70Connecticut,173,174,180Consumption, statistics of,220;foreign element largely its victims,220Contract labor exclusion,77,82,92;violation,82,83Convicts, excluded,77Cook, Joseph,52Coolies, Chinese, excluded,70Coöperation, interdenominational,286;of Home Mission Boards,288Copernicus,172Crime, conditions favorable to increase of,209,224;foreigners led into by environment and example,209Croatians,124,183Czechs, seeBohemiansDalmatians, as immigrants,183Danes, as immigrants,21Debarred, seeExcludedDemocracy, influence of upon aliens,296,298Denmark, immigrants from,23Detroit,21,172Discrimination needed as to immigrants,127Diseases guarded against,57,59,60,74,77,78,93Distribution of immigrants,102-117;New York state,105,107;New Zealand methods,116;North Atlantic section,105;Ohio,107;Pennsylvania,105,107;railroads assisting,116;societies aiding,107-113;South Central states,105;West Virginia,107;Western section,105Dublin,199Dutch, as immigrants,21Eastern invasion, the,157-192Edison, Thomas A.,247Educational policy affected by immigration,246Ellis Island,18,19,35,37,54,55,59-62,74,83,99,100,108;missionary workers at,274;results of personal efforts at,275Emerson, Ralph W.,247English, as immigrants,19,21,126;language, influence of,259,260Environment, evil effects of upon children,243Europe, American ideas working in,33,34;immigrants from,20,23,98,123-192Evangelization of immigrants,10,16,46,47;accessibility,294;illustration of,283;most potent factor in Americanizing,270;need for extension of,277;personal responsibility for,290;sporadic, not systematic,281Evasion of immigration laws,78-83Excluded classes,74-78,100,101Federation of Jewish Charities,102Financial panics, effect on immigration,26,31Finns, as immigrants,21Fiume,82,99Forbes, James,139Foreign-born, distribution of,107Four State Immigration League,113France,34Franklin, Benjamin,69Freethinkers, their societies among immigrants,168,169,180,285French-American College, the,280French, as immigrants,21French-Canadians, Roman Catholic convention of,257Fung Yuet Mow,269Gardner, Representative, of Massachusetts,95Genoa,99,132Germans, as immigrants,19,21,35,126Germany, immigrants from,25,33,81Goodchild, Rev. F. M.,33,292Grant, Ulysses S.,247Great Britain, immigrants from,25,43,128Greece,92Greek Catholic Church,182,184;Orthodox or Russian State Church,182Greeks, as immigrants,21,37,41Hall, Prescott F.,45,70,129Hamburg,82,99Havre,99Hebrew, seeJewish,JewsHerzegovinians, as immigrants,183Hewes, F. W.,107Home Missions, at Ellis Island,274;demand for extension of in New York,287;opportunities of, for local churches,279;personal work,274,290,291;results of abroad,269;settlement influences by residence,292,293Honolulu,53Huguenot colonial stock,240Hungarians, as immigrants,33,128,177-179;cafés, as social centers,178,179;fair degree of education,177;open to mission work,178Hungary,19,128Huns,27,165Hunter, Robert,194,200Huss, John,166,170Iberic peoples,123Idiots, excluded,77,78Illiteracy, amount of among immigrants,22,24,125;test proposed,95,96Immigrants, admission,53-64;"assisted,"43,93;approachable,273,282;attracted to the city,195;debarred,70,71,77,78;diseased,57,60,74,77,78,93,94;illiteracy among,22,23, see alsoIlliteracy;"manifest,"55,56,61;nationality,21,22;"natural,"31-42;ports and routes of entry,53,77;"solicited,"42,43,80-82,93;smuggling of,81,92;religious census and conditions,251,271;value of first impression upon,273;views of America,272;