The Census is the sword that shatters secrecy, the key that opens
trebly-guarded doors; the Enumerator is vested with the Nation's
greatest right--the Right To Know--and on his findings all battle-lines
depend. "When through Atlantic and Pacific gateways, Slavic, Italic, and
Mongol hordes threaten the persistence of an American America, his is
the task to show the absorption of widely diverse peoples, to chronicle
the advances of civilization, or point the perils of illiterate and
alien-tongue communities. To show how this great Census work is done,
to reveal the mysteries its figures half-disclose, to point the paths to
heroism in the United States to-day, and to bind closer the kinship
between all peoples of the earth who have become "Americans" is the aim
and purpose of
THE AUTHOR.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
A BLOOD FEUD IN OLD KENTUCKY
CHAPTER II
RESCUING A LOST RACE
CHAPTER III
A MANUFACTORY OF RIFLES
CHAPTER IV
THE BOY LEADER OF A CRUSADE
CHAPTER V
"DON'T DEPORT MY OLD MOTHER!"
CHAPTER VI
THE NEGRO CENSUS FROM THE SADDLE
CHAPTER VII
HOBOES ON THE TRAMP
CHAPTER VIII
THE CENSUS HEROES OF THE FROZEN NORTH
CHAPTER IX
CONFRONTED WITH THE BLACK HAND
CHAPTER X
RIOTS AROUND A CITY SCHOOL
ILLUSTRATIONS
The Statue of Liberty (_Frontispiece_)
Taking the Census in Old Kentucky
Kentucky Mountaineer Family
Moonshining
Bill Wilsh's Home in the Gully
Bill Wilsh in the School
Alligator-Catching
The Census Building
Making Gun-sights True
"A Bull's-eye Every Time!"
Young Boys from the Pit
"I 'ain't Seen Daylight for Two Years"
Eight Years Old and "Tired of Working"
The Biggest Liner in the World Coming in
Immigration Station, Ellis Island
Where the Workers Come from
On a Peanut Farm
In an All-Negro Town
"'Way down Yonder in de Cotton Fiel'"
How Most of the Negroes Live
Facsimile of Punched Census Card
Tabulating Machine
Pin-box and Mercury Cups
Over the Trackless Snow with Dog-team
The Census in the Aleutian Islands
"Can We Make Camp?"
To Eskimo Settlements by Reindeer
Gathering Cocoanuts
Taking the Census in a City
Festa in the Italian Quarter
The Fighting Men of the Tongs
Arrested as the Firing Stops
Work for Americans
THE BOY WITH THE U.
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