AMALGAMATING OUR FOREIGN BORN 



and should be allowed wherever they can be 

 honestly claimed. 



Evening schools, as carried on in Boston, 

 New York, Chicago and in other progres- 

 sive cities, are an immense benign force to 

 disintegrate aggregations of foreigners. 

 They are doing a work which the public 

 does not half appreciate. To be convinced 

 of their merit, visit an evening school in the 

 Russian, Greek, or Bohemian quarter of 

 Chicago, and witness its success in teaching 

 great classes of those nationalities our letters 

 and the elements of our civics. 



For the most part, evening schools reach 

 only the young. In all centers of dense alien 

 population they should be authorized, 

 equipped and encouraged to take in adults. 

 The most un-American of our settlers, the 

 elderly excepted, would like to learn 

 English, which desire, properly appealed to 

 and backed by ampler school facilities, 

 would effect the nationalization of many. 

 Churches and Sunday schools might use- 

 fully establish evening classes to assist in 

 this most patriotic enterprise. It would be 



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