4 Shattered Dreams
[T]he Statue of Liberty had ceased to be an alluring symbol.
How childishly naïve I had been, how far I had advanced since that day!1
Anybody who is acquainted with the slums of any American metropolis
knows that that is the quarter where poor immigrants foregather,
to live, for the most part, as unkempt, half-washed, toiling, unaspiring foreigners;
pitiful in the eyes of social missionaries, the despair of boards of health,
the hope of ward politicians, the touchstone of American democracy.
The well-versed metropolitan knows the slums as a sort of house of detention for poor aliens, where they live on probation till they can show a certificate of good citizenship.2
A man on an East Side soap-box, one night, pro- ...
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