The Immigrant Tide: Its Ebb and Flow

Steiner, Edward A., The Immigrant Tide: Its Ebb and Flow, Fleming H. Revell Company: New York (1909). Hardcover, 370 pages.

Synopsis by Author

In the first part of my book, I have tried to show the influences of the returned immigrant upon his peasant home and his social and national life. In the second part, I interpret the relation of various races to our institutions, their attitude towards them and their influence upon them.

CONTENTS

PART I: WITH THE OUTGOING TIDE

• “ THEY THAT GO OUT IN SHIPS ”
• THE PRICE THEY PAY
• A MURDERER, MARY AND AN HONORARY DEGREE
• REFLEX INFLUENCES
• OUR CRITICS
• THE DOCTOR OF THE KOPANICZE
• “ MOSCHELE AMERIKANSKY ” .
• “ NOCH 1ST POLEN NlCHT VERLOREN
• THE DISCIPLES IN THE CARPATHIANS
• THE GUSLAR OF RAGUSA
• WHERE THE ANGEL DROPPED THE STONES
• “THE HOLE FROM WHICH YE WERE DIGGED ”

PART II WITH THE INCOMING TIDE

• PROBLEMS OF THE TIDE
• THE SLAV IN THE IMMIGRANT PROBLEM
• THE SLAV IN HISTORIC CHRISTIANITY
• FROM EPHRATA TO WHISKEY HILL
• FROM THE LOVCZIN TO GUINEA HILL
• THE JEW AND THE CHRISTIAN
• THE JEW IN THE IMMIGRANT PROBLEM
• FROM FIFTH AVENUE TO THE GHETTO
• FROM LAKE SKUTARI TO LAKE CHAUTAUQUA
• THE PROTESTANT CHURCH AND THE IMMIGRANT
• TWENTY-FIVE YEARS WITH THE NEW IMMIGRANT
• FROM CHAOS TO COSMOS

Appendices

• APPENDIX I (Classification of the New Im-migrant Groups)
• APPENDIX II (Net Immigration to the United States 1899-1908) .
• APPENDIX III (Industrial Depression and Immigration) .
• APPENDIX IV (Suggested Changes in Im-migration Laws)

INDEX

ILLUSTRATIONS

• A CZAR IN Embryo
• Dirty Mary During the Period OF Transition
• TRIEST
• A CONTRAST IN HOMES
• THE MARKET SQUARE IN CRACOW
• AT THE FOOT OF THE TATRA MOUNTAINS
• Coast OF Dalmatia
• WHERE THE ANGEL DROPPED THE STONES AND NOW DROPS DOLLARS
• Two Types OF Poles
• RUTHENIANS
• THE SLAVIC HOME IN HUNGARY
• THE SLAVIC HOME ON WHISKEY HILL
• A JEW OF THE POORER TYPE
• A Jew OF THE Finer Type
• Albanians
• Faculty and American Students at Missions-Haus, Kattowitz
• Slavic Women
• GENERAL AND MRS. RICIOTTO GARIBALDI AT THE FOOT OF HIS FATHER’S MONUMENT IN ROME

Triest. Austria's commercial harbor; prosperous, whether the immigrant tide ebbs or flows.

Ruthenians. The most backward and oppressed of the Slavic people, whose destiny is worked out in America.

Slavic Women
Left: The one who staid at Home. The horizon of her life is indicated by her impassive features
Right: The one who Emigrated. "The fiber, the tissue, that mysterious fluid which we call life or sould -- the very nerve cells, change."

Two Types of Poles
Left: Gorales. The most primitive and semi-civilized type.
Right: Cracowian. From the vicinity of Cracow. As good as the German peasant, at his best.