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A MAGAZINE OF GOOD CITIZENSHIP
THE DEBT OF JUSTICE WHICH
AMERICA OWES THE IMMIGRANT
'T'HE history of America is replete with chapters of immigrant
J* resourcefulness, ingenuity and willingness to work, willingness
to perform the most stupendous tasks requiring physical endur
ance, where there has been a reasonable certainty of reward, no
matter how long the road of toil has been to reach the goal.
Some of these chapters have been written, but most of them are
only traced in the background scenes that represent the prosper
ous communities to which we point with pride all over this vast
continent. The immigrants have come to America strong-limbed
and courageous. They have cleared the forests and gone down
into the bowels of the earth after our coal and iron. They have
plowed and conquered the prairies and turned the wilderness into
a paradise. They have built the greater part of our highways
and railroads, and turned our raw products into marketable
material. Hundreds of thousands of them have been needlessly
sacrificed on the altar of gain. Their anguish has gone unheeded.
Where a hundred fell there were a thousand idle hands in
the modern mart of human life to fill the gap. Greed, coined
greed, the responsible culprit, distributed prosperity and its en
joyment calloused our conscience. Their little children, Ameri
cans by birth, suffered and wept at the breast of an immigrant
mother, able only to offer her frail protest in a foreign tongue
which no one understood save those who suffered with her.
America’s vision has become clarified. A better understand
ing of the immigrant is discernible. A common concern in his
physical and mental, his economic and intellectual advancement,
has opened the way for constructive Americanization work. The
study of the immigrant’s life, of his social and economic adjust
ments, is now provoking the most earnest attention of all who
believe in equality and justice in America.
AUGUST. 1925
Colore byMurwel Color Senrtwe Lab
PORTLAND. OREGON
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