ABSTRACT
This chapter briefly indicates in what directions the most important of the problems lie. So many problems which in European countries occupy the foreground, and which weigh particularly on the German mind, are quite foreign to the American. The fluctuations in immigration seem to depend chiefly on the amount of prosperity in the United States, and, secondly, on the economic and political conditions which prevail from year to year in Europe. At the very best the Northerner plays philanthropist toward the negro, takes care of his schools and churches, helps him to help himself, and to carve out his economic freedom. It was recognized that falsification of election returns was an evil, but it was thought to be a worse evil for the country to be handed over to the low domination of illiterate negroes. The feeling of dissatisfaction is growing in the North, and it is not an accident that the negro population of the North grows so slowly.
