INTRODUCTION 7 
3. The effect of immigration upon the morals of the 
American people, as shown by: 
(a) The criminal immigrant. The moral charac 
teristics of the various races may be indicated by the 
number of crimes and the character of the crimes 
committed by them. 
(b) The social evil and the white-slave traffic, indi 
cated in part by court records and observations of 
social workers and special investigators. 
(c) The immigrant pauper: A study of the immi 
grants in the charity hospitals and of the relief given 
by the charitable societies to immigrants.* 
POLITICAL AND SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS 
4- The effect of immigration upon American insti 
tutions, as shown by: 
(o) Political effects, indicated by the relative num 
ber of immigrants of various races that become natu 
ralized, and by the methods employed by political 
Managers to influence the votes of the immigrants. 
(b) The social effects as indicated by: 
1. The church affiliations and religious practises 
and customs of the immigrants of different races. 
2. The immigrant family, as shown in part by the 
marriage relations; the fecundity of immigrant wom- 
e n, as compared with American women; the chil 
dren of the immigrants; the tendency also toward 
establishing families here, or leaving families in Eu 
rope, with the expectation of returning to them. 
3- The immigrant colony. Both in our large cities 
and in agricultural districts, the effect of immigration 
upon our institutions has been profoundly modified by 
Pauperism is, of course, to be considered also in other than its 
n *oral aspects, but it is conveniently classified here.