The Hopes of the Hyphenated - 1916 with Illustrations from 1898
and 1903 By GEORGE CREEL Author of "A Way to Industrial Peace,"
etc. WHATEVER else the hyphen may do, at least it is a thorn in
the bed that has aroused the country to a realization of the
imperative nature of the immigration problem. In the activities
of hyphenated societies and a foreign-language press, expressed
by seditious attacks upon the Government and hold disruptions of
industry, there is plain evidence that the melting-pot has not
been melting. The bland assumption that we are one country and
one people has been given a rude shock by bitter statistics
filled with proof that great masses of aliens have failed to
transfer their allegiance, a domestic peril that threatens the
permanence of American institutions as gravely as any menace of
foreign foe. The Slow Road To Citizenship In the last decade,
1905 to 1914 inclusive, over ten million immigrants entered the
United States with presumed intent to make this their home and
the land of the