THE CALL OF THE LAND 



Dakota 64.2, Montana 58.9, California 54, 

 Utah 61.8, Nevada 57.3, and Arizona 51.7. 



Mostly our foreigners are fairly well 

 scattered, yet there remain numerous for- 

 eign colonies here and there, in each of 

 which, not only the language of the nation- 

 ality is persistently spoken, but the customs 

 of the country are maintained. Little 

 Italics, Russias, Swedens, Germanics, Hol- 

 lands, Bohemias, and Polands exist in many 

 cities and in not a few country regions, 

 around which the tide of American life 

 sweeps almost as vainly as the ocean about 

 granite reefs. 



This slow amalgamation of outlanders is 

 not a national peril. Our citizenship from 

 abroad is in the main good, and the least 

 likely part of it will become valuable with 

 time. 



The nation's experience with immigra- 

 tion hitherto is ground for hope. Pierre 

 Leroy-Beaulieu in his recent work well 

 argues "that the greater part of the blood 

 that flows in the veins of the American peo- 

 ple today is that of people who inhabited 



