Immigration and Americanization; selected readings . to the mind that demands a short, satis-factory answer, whether true or false. But the matter is notaltogether indefinite. Some few things are pretty clear: (i)This people, before the great tides of immigration began, wasmainly Baltic and mainly of excellent stock. (2) This people hasbeen influenced to a considerable degree by immigration. Prob-ably the racial effects of the early immigration were not great,but to-day conditions are different. There has been a change inthe racial origin of our immigration, a change in the method of RACIAL EF
Immigration and Americanization; selected readings . to the mind that demands a short, satis-factory answer, whether true or false. But the matter is notaltogether indefinite. Some few things are pretty clear: (i)This people, before the great tides of immigration began, wasmainly Baltic and mainly of excellent stock. (2) This people hasbeen influenced to a considerable degree by immigration. Prob-ably the racial effects of the early immigration were not great,but to-day conditions are different. There has been a change inthe racial origin of our immigration, a change in the method of RACIAL EFFECTS OF IMMIGRATION 241 selection, and a change in the conditions of this country. (3) Ifpresent conditions, laws, and tendencies continue (a large if,this), there will clearly be considerable racial change in the such a change would be a good or a bad thing, eachmust decide for himself, and it rests with the American people todecide whether for their own interests and for the interests of theworld in general they desire the IMMIGRATION AND THE MINIMUM WAGE1 Paul U. Kellogg, , Editor, The Survey THE line of least resistance in extending the protection of thestate over labor conditions has been to enact laws withrespect to women and children. The world-old instinct of thestrong to shelter the weak has led the conservative to join forceswith the radical, in prohibiting child labor and in shortening thehours of womens work. On the other hand the liberty lovingtradition of a male democracy has more often than not thrownthe balance on the other side of the scale when the exercise ofpublic control over mens labor has been under discussion. This tendency has been repeated in the movement toward mini-mum wage legislation. The voluntary Massachusetts law whichgoes into effect this year concerns women and children; and so,too, does the compulsory statute which has just passed theOregon legislature. Public discussion the past winter has centeredaround relation
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