The

Immigration Problem

A STUDY OF AMERICAN IMMIGRA-
TION CONDITIONS AND NEEDS

BY

JEREMIAH W. JENKS, Ph.D., LL.D.

Professor of Government and Director of the Division of Public Affairs,
New York University; Member of the Former United
States Immigration Commission

AND

W. JETT LAUCK

Former Associate-Professor of Economics and Politics, Washington and Lee
University; Expert in Charge of the Industrial Investigations of
the Former United States Immigration Commission

FOURTH EDITION REVISED AND ENLARGED

W

FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY

NEW YORK AND LONDON

Copyright under the Articles of the Copyright Convention of the
Pan-American Republics and the United States, August 11, 1910

DEDICATED TO

SENATOR WILLIAM P. DILLINGHAM Chairman of the Immigration Commission

TO WHOSE THOUGHTFUL CARE, TACT AND SOUND JUDGMENT THE SUCCESS OF THE COMMISSION'S WORK

WAS LARGELY DUE