Americans by Choice :: TABLE OF CONTENTS

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Publisher’s Note	v


Foreword	vii


Table of Contents	ix


List of Tables	xvi


List of Diagrams	xxi


Introduction	xxiii

CHAPTER
I. Of Their Own Free Will	1


These Are Our Voters!	2
Primitive Attitudes Toward Immigrants	3
Legal Position of the Alien	5
What Is an “American”?	7
The American Has No Racial Marks	10
Not Racial, but Cultural	12
Essentials of “Americanism”	14

II. New Members and an Old Game	17


Factors in Immigration	18
Politics Welcomes the Irish	21
They Always Have Been Democrats	21
Early Germans Became Republicans	24
Effects of the Gold Craze	25
Vast Naturalization Frauds	25
First Choice in Politics	30
The Politician Close to Humanity	33
Political Aspects of Social Clubs	35
Politics a Great Americanizing Force	37

III. Citizenship: Under This Flag and Others	40
Roots of Political Society	42
Influence of Emigration to America	43
The Right to Emigrate	44
The Subject vs. the Active Member	45
Essentials of Citizenship: Ancient—and American	46
Bases of American Citizenship	49
Common-law Definition Taken for Granted	50
Concerning Americans Born Abroad	51
Children Born at Sea	52
Question of Dual Nationality	53
Countries Denying the Right of Expatriation	54
Conditional Recognition	55
Naturalization Treaties With the United States	55
Great Britain	56
Germany	57
Citizenship Takes No Account of Sex	62
“A Woman Without a Country”	299
Children of Aliens Here American Born	301
“Derivative Citizenship” Almost Equals the Direct	302
Woman Suffrage Was Widespread	303
Applicants Came as Young Married Men	304
The Mother Must Be “Americanized”	305
Must Learn Politics by Political Activity	307
Few Women Seek Naturalization	309
Some Courts Notice the Wives	311
Obstacles of Distance and Expense	312
Woman Suffrage Opens a New Era	314
Opinions of Naturalizing Judges	315
650,000 “Derivative Voters” Extant	317
Largely an Ignorant Vote	318
Political Indifference Not Peculiar to Foreign Born	320
Many Were Called, but Few Responded	321
Foreign-born Women Without Political Experience	323
They Are Good Material	324
How the Women Can Be Reached	327
A Specific Example—It Works	330
What the Children Did	333

XI. The Foreign-born Voter in Action	335
Divided by Racial Traditions	338
Aliens Not Without Political Influence	339
There is no “Foreign Vote”	340
Old Evils Abolished	341
Corruption Was Not an Importation	343
Home-grown in Adams County, Ohio!	344
Who Is the Buyer of Votes?	345
Attempts to Find the “Foreign Vote”	347
Response to Progressive Ideas	354
Some Results from Cleveland	357
“Civic Interest” in Grand Rapids	365
Municipal Voters’ League of Chicago	369
Some Other Instances	373

XII. The Foreign Born in Radical Movements	377
The Socialist Press	380
Dues-paying Socialist Members	381
Racial Groups of Socialists	383
The Socialist Vote	385
German Influence in Socialism	387
Jews in Socialism	390
Effect of the War on Socialism	Clyx.com