6. * Does this chapter convince you that Christians have a duty in
these matters, and if so, what is it?

REFERENCES FOR ADVANCED STUDY.--CHAPTER VI

I. _New York Slums and Foreign Quarters._

Study especially the Ghetto, Little Italy, Little Hungary, et al. and
find out whether similar conditions exist in cities of your section.

For New York, consult
University Settlement Studies, Vol. I, Nos. 3 and 4.
Riis: How the Other Half Lives, X, XII.

For Chicago, consult
Hull House Papers.

For Boston, consult
Wood: Americans in Process, III, IV.

II. _Measures for Relief of Slum Population._

Riis: The Battle With the Slum, V-XV.
Riis: How the Other Half Lives, VI, VII, XXIV.

III. _Connection between a Dense Foreign Population and Corruption in
Politics._

Wood: Americans in Process, VI.

IV. _Checks Put upon Industrial Oppression and Poverty._

Riis: The Peril and the Preservation of the Home.

V. _Problems of Poverty and Childhood as Affected by Immigration._

Hunter: Poverty, I, V, VI.
Riis: How the Other Half Lives, XV, XVII, XXI.

_"To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely," said
Burke. If there is to be patriotism, it must be a matter of pride to
say, "Americanus sum"--I am an American._--Professor Mayo-Smith.

VII

IMMIGRATION AND THE NATIONAL CHARACTER

If that man who careth not for his own household is worse than an
infidel, the nation which permits its institutions to be endangered by
any cause that can fairly be removed, is guilty, not less in Christian
than in natural law. Charity begins at home; and while the people of the
United States have gladly offered an asylum to millions upon millions of
the distressed and unfortunate of other lands and climes, they have no
right to carry their hospitality one step beyond the line where American
institutions, the American rate of wages, the American standard of
living are brought into serious peril. _Our highest duty to charity and
to humanity is to make this great experiment here, of free laws and
educated labor, the most triumphant success that can possibly be
attained._ In this way we shall do far more for Europe than by allowing
its slums and its vast stagnant reservoirs of degraded peasantry to be
drained off upon our soil.--_General Francis A. Walker._

If the hope which this country holds out to the hum