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Author : Ravage Marcus Eli
Title : An american in the making The life story of an immigrant
Year : 1917

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Introduction. When I hear all around me the foolish prattle about the new immigration - "the scum of Europe," as it is called - that is invading and making itself master of this country, I cannot help saying to myself that Americans have forgotten America. The native, I must conclude, has, by long familiarity with the rich blessings of his own land, grown forgetful of his high privileges and ceased to grasp the lofty message which America wafts across the seas to all the oppressed of mankind. What, I wonder, do they know of America, who know only America ? ...