Madison Grant (1865-1937)

PUBLIC

American public sentiment regarding the admission of aliens has undergone recently a profound change. At the end of the nineteenth century a fatuous humanitarianism prevailed and immigrants of all kinds were welcomed to "The Refuge of the Oppressed," regardless of whether they were needed in our industrial development or whether they tended to debase our racial unity. The "Myth of the Melting Pot" was, at that time, deemed by the unthinking to be a part of our national creed.