But let them remember that the Mayflower was a mighty small boat and some mighty fine people had to take a later boat. How could even a descendant of a Mayflower passenger surpass in Americanism the thousands upon thousands of foreignborn who now are American citizens and who have contributed on occasion after occasion to make this the greatest Nation on earth? Joseph Pulitzer is only one example of an immigrant boy who believed in Americawho gave as much to his adopted country as he received from it. The career of Joseph Pulitzer was amazing. While it is true that Pulitzer arrived in St. Louis in October 1865. as a penniless. musteredout Union soldier from New York. his birth in faroff Hungary 18 years before had not been in the environment which would qualify him as a Horatio Alger ragstoriches hero. He came from a family of more than comfortable circumstances and was educated in private schools so that when he arrived in America he was not the usual uneducated type of immigrant. But his education was all that remained with him as he started life in a new land. As a boy he left home when his mother remarried some time after the death of his father.
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