A great literature of warning and analysis was written on these subjects. even before World War I shattered the illusion of continuous progress. President Theodore Roosevelt wrote more striking and original comments on our social problems than did his fifth cousin. Meanwhile immigrants who had become wealthy saw the possibility of organizing mass immigration of their compatriots. and the inflow rose higher and higher. We were admitting newcomers to the number of a million a year. mostly from areas far removed from Western Europe. which shared many of our political. economic. and family institutions. The costs of adjustment. which fell on our schools. our police systems. our city governments. our marginal workers. rose higher and higher.
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