The Immigrant Tide: Its Ebb and Flow

Excerpt from The Immigrant Tide: Its Ebb and Flow
The gates of Ellis Island, which had all but grown rusty during the war, swing free again, and the drear procession of aliens seeking a home is lengthening into unprecedented proportions. The Great War emptied the steerage, and the Peace of Versailles is filling it to overflowing. Burdensome as life was prior to the war, terrible and full of anxiety during the bitter conflict, the awaited peace unloosed new breeds of Apocalyptic horses: War, revolution, famine and pestilence; from which all those who can, are escaping.
Whether these who are coming to-day are better or worse than those who preceded them in their flight from Europe, it is difficult to say. They do come in greater haste, victors and defeated alike, completely severing their contact with the Old Country, in which they have suffered the bitterest disillusionment, and therefore they may be reckoned as permanent elements of our population.
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