Americans by Choice

About this eBook

Author

Gavit, John Palmer, 1868-1954

Credits

Produced by ellinora, John Campbell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

JV: Political science: Colonies and colonization, International migration

Subject

Naturalization -- United States

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 60576

Release Date

October 27, 2019

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.AMERICANS BY CHOICE
2. 2.PUBLISHER’S NOTE
3. 3.FOREWORD
4. 4.TABLE OF CONTENTS
5. 5.LIST OF TABLES
6. 6.LIST OF DIAGRAMS
7. 7.INTRODUCTION
8. 8.I OF THEIR OWN FREE WILL — THESE ARE OUR VOTERS! — PRIMITIVE ATTITUDES TOWARD IMMIGRANTS — LEGAL POSITION OF THE ALIEN — WHAT IS AN “AMERICAN”? — THE AMERICAN HAS NO RACIAL MARKS — NOT RACIAL, BUT CULTURAL — ESSENTIALS OF “AMERICANISM”
9. 9.II NEW MEMBERS AND AN OLD GAME — FACTORS IN IMMIGRATION — POLITICS WELCOMES THE IRISH — THEY ALWAYS HAVE BEEN DEMOCRATS — EARLY GERMANS BECAME REPUBLICANS — EFFECTS OF THE GOLD CRAZE — VAST NATURALIZATION FRAUDS — FIRST CHOICE IN POLITICS — THE POLITICIAN CLOSE TO HUMANITY — POLITICAL ASPECTS OF SOCIAL CLUBS — POLITICS A GREAT AMERICANIZING FORCE
10. 10.III CITIZENSHIP: UNDER THIS FLAG, AND OTHERS — ROOTS OF POLITICAL SOCIETY — INFLUENCE OF EMIGRATION TO AMERICA — THE RIGHT TO EMIGRATE — THE SUBJECT VS. THE ACTIVE MEMBER — ESSENTIALS OF CITIZENSHIP: ANCIENT—AND AMERICAN — BASES OF AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP — COMMON-LAW DEFINITION TAKEN FOR GRANTED — CONCERNING AMERICANS BORN ABROAD — CHILDREN BORN AT SEA — QUESTION OF DUAL NATIONALITY — COUNTRIES DENYING THE RIGHT OF EXPATRIATION — CONDITIONAL RECOGNITION — NATURALIZATION TREATIES WITH THE UNITED STATES — GREAT BRITAIN — GERMANY — CITIZENSHIP TAKES NO ACCOUNT OF SEX — “A WOMAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY” — THE AMERICAN UNDER THREE JURISDICTIONS
11. 11.IV DEVELOPMENT OF THE NATURALIZATION LAW — OUR “CHARTER MEMBERS” — FIRST NATURALIZATION LAWS — EFFORTS TOWARD UNIFORMITY — BARS UP AGAINST ALIEN ANARCHISTS — VARIOUS PRESIDENTS DISCUSSED NATURALIZATION — DEFINITE REFORM AT LAST — NATURALIZATION COMMISSION APPOINTED — WHAT THE LAW REQUIRES
12. 12.V THE LAW IN OPERATION — RESTRICTIONS OF RACE — LIMITATIONS REGARDING AGE — THE DECLARATION OF INTENTION — “DECLARATION INVALID” — SHOULD DECLARATION BE ABOLISHED? — NATURALIZATION JUDGES FAVOR ITS RETENTION — THE SEVEN-YEAR LIMITATION — THE CERTIFICATE OF LAWFUL ENTRY — THE VEXATIOUS QUESTION OF NAMES — THE PETITION FOR NATURALIZATION — NINETY DAYS’ INTERVAL BEFORE HEARING — THE FINAL HEARING IN COURT — MUST “SPEAK” THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE — ATTACHED TO THE CONSTITUTION — IN THE MATTER OF “CONTINUOUS RESIDENCE” — THE ABSURDITY OF THE “INCOMPETENT WITNESS” — JUDGES DENOUNCE THE ABSURDITY — DEPOSITIONS OF WITNESSES — “GOOD MORAL CHARACTER” — THE FINAL CEREMONY—OATH OF ALLEGIANCE — CEREMONIES OF INITIATION
13. 13.VI PERSONAL EQUATION IN NATURALIZATION — A FUNCTION OF LOCAL COURTS — “PERSONAL EQUATION” OF THE JUDGES — BIRD’S-EYE VIEW OF THE QUESTIONNAIRE — GENERAL TREND OF JUDGES’ OPINIONS — THE CLERKS OF THE COURTS — THE QUESTION OF ADEQUATE CLERICAL FORCE — WHEN THE CLERK POCKETS THE FEES — FORMS OF PETTY GRAFT — “PERSONAL EQUATION” IN THE NATURALIZATION SERVICE — A SCRUPULOUSLY HONEST SERVICE — NEED OF UNIFYING INFLUENCE — “NOTHING TO LITIGATE!” — CONFUSED STATE OF THE EDUCATIONAL TEST — THE CRAZE FOR “AMERICANIZING”—SOMEBODY ELSE! — EXTRA RESPONSIBILITIES SELF-SOUGHT — ENORMOUS ARREARAGE IN BUREAU’S WORK — THE ALIENS SUPPORT THE BUREAU — FITNESS OF CANDIDATES — “PERSONAL EQUATION” OF THE PUBLIC
14. 14.VII SOME STATISTICS CONCERNING IMMIGRANTS, “NEW” AND “OLD” — PAUCITY OF DEPENDABLE INFORMATION — VAST ARREARAGES IN EXAMINATIONS — REPORT OF THE IMMIGRATION COMMISSION OF 1907 — LEGEND OF “THE NEW IMMIGRATION” — DISPARITY IN NUMBERS AMONG RACIAL GROUPS — THE FACTOR OF LENGTH OF RESIDENCE — THE FACTOR OF LANGUAGE — LENGTH OF RESIDENCE AND EARNING POWER — VOTING ON “FIRST PAPERS” — WHAT BECOMES OF THE DECLARATIONS?
15. 15.VIII LATER STATISTICS—IN WHICH SOME TWENTY-SIX THOUSAND PETITIONERS SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES — MORE THAN A FIFTH OF ALL PETITIONERS — FROM TWENTY-EIGHT REPRESENTATIVE COURTS — IN A REASONABLY NORMAL YEAR — THE RACIAL GROUPS ARE TYPICAL — RELATIVE “CIVIC AND POLITICAL INTEREST” — HOW DID THESE PETITIONERS FARE? — AS REGARDS “IMMORAL CHARACTER” — THE SHOWING AS TO “IGNORANCE” — TIME-INTERVALS IN NATURALIZATION — HOW DO THE RACIAL GROUPS COMPARE? — THEY ARE YOUNG PEOPLE — RELATIVE AGE AND “POLITICAL INTEREST” — THE REAL RACIAL DISTINCTION — RACE AND RELATIVE AGE AT ARRIVAL — AT THE BEGINNING OF MARRIED LIFE — AS FOR “STABILITY OF RESIDENCE” — INTELLECTUAL EQUIPMENT AND OCCUPATION — GENERAL CONCLUSIONS
16. 16.IX CITIZENSHIP VIA MILITARY SERVICE — POSITION OF THE ALIEN SOLDIER — REVOLUTIONARY LEGISLATIVE ACTION — CITIZENS AT HEART BUT “ENEMY ALIENS” — ALL SAFEGUARDS ABANDONED — ALL RACE RESTRICTIONS REMOVED — ORDINARY NATURALIZATION DISRUPTED — STATISTICS OF ALIEN REGISTRATION — ALIENS AND MILITARY SERVICE — FOREIGN BORN EAGER TO SERVE — AUSTRIANS WHO WERE NOT FOR AUSTRIA — THERE WAS HUMAN WAR-TIME PSYCHOLOGY — DIPLOMATIC REQUESTS FOR EXEMPTION — RECIPROCAL CONSCRIPTION AMONG COBELLIGERENTS — OF GERMAN DESCENT, BUT LOYAL AMERICANS — DESERTION, AMONG ALIENS AND CITIZENS — WAR’S TEST OF “THE MELTING-POT” — AN OLD PRACTICE WITH A NEW SIGNIFICANCE — WHAT SOME JUDGES THOUGHT OF IT — HERE WAS “ATTACHMENT TO OUR PRINCIPLES”! — ASSIMILATING THE ENEMIES OF TYRANNY — EPISODES OF MILITARY NATURALIZATION — THOSE WHO WENT WITHOUT CITIZENSHIP — A GREAT COMPOSITE RECORD OF LOYALTY
17. 17.X THE FOREIGN-BORN WOMAN, HER HOME AND HER CHILDREN, IN AMERICAN POLITICS — REGARDLESS OF QUALIFICATIONS — UNMARRIED WOMEN HAVE MALE RIGHTS — DANGERS OF “DERIVATIVE CITIZENSHIP” — CHILDREN OF ALIENS HERE AMERICAN BORN — “DERIVATIVE CITIZENSHIP” ALMOST EQUALS THE DIRECT — WOMAN SUFFRAGE WAS WIDESPREAD — APPLICANTS CAME AS YOUNG MARRIED MEN — THE MOTHER MUST BE “AMERICANIZED” — MUST LEARN POLITICS BY POLITICAL ACTIVITY — FEW WOMEN SEEK NATURALIZATION — SOME COURTS NOTICE THE WIVES — OBSTACLES OF DISTANCE AND EXPENSE — WOMAN SUFFRAGE OPENS A NEW ERA — OPINIONS OF NATURALIZING JUDGES — 650,000 “DERIVATIVE VOTERS” EXTANT — LARGELY AN IGNORANT VOTE — POLITICAL INDIFFERENCE NOT PECULIAR TO FOREIGN BORN — MANY WERE CALLED, BUT FEW RESPONDED — FOREIGN-BORN WOMEN WITHOUT POLITICAL EXPERIENCE — THEY ARE GOOD MATERIAL — HOW THE WOMEN CAN BE REACHED — A SPECIFIC EXAMPLE—IT WORKS — WHAT THE CHILDREN DID
18. 18.XI THE FOREIGN-BORN VOTER IN ACTION — DIVIDED BY RACIAL TRADITIONS — ALIENS NOT WITHOUT POLITICAL INFLUENCE — THERE IS NO “FOREIGN VOTE” — OLD EVILS ABOLISHED — CORRUPTION WAS NOT AN IMPORTATION — HOME-GROWN IN ADAMS COUNTY, OHIO! — WHO IS THE BUYER OF VOTES? — ATTEMPTS TO FIND THE “FOREIGN VOTE” — RESPONSE TO PROGRESSIVE IDEAS — SOME RESULTS FROM CLEVELAND — “CIVIC INTEREST” IN GRAND RAPIDS — MUNICIPAL VOTERS’ LEAGUE OF CHICAGO — SOME OTHER INSTANCES
19. 19.XII THE FOREIGN BORN IN RADICAL MOVEMENTS — THE SOCIALIST PRESS — DUES-PAYING SOCIALIST MEMBERS — RACIAL GROUPS OF SOCIALISTS — THE SOCIALIST VOTE — GERMAN INFLUENCE IN SOCIALISM — JEWS IN SOCIALISM — EFFECT OF THE WAR ON SOCIALISM — THE SINGLE-TAX AND AGRARIAN MOVEMENTS — THE NONPARTISAN LEAGUE — ULTRARADICAL MOVEMENTS NONPOLITICAL — THE “I. W. W.” AND THE HOMELESS WORKER
20. 20.XIII SOME GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS — NO LOWERING OF STANDARDS — A FUNCTION ADMINISTRATIVE OR JUDICIAL? — PHYSICAL CONDITIONS AND DIGNITY — FUNCTION OF THE NATURALIZATION BUREAU
21. 21.APPENDIX
22. 22.INDEX
23. 23.FOOTNOTES:

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