Is your knowledge of the lives of the poor sufficient to move
you to work for their redemption? Are any of those persons, about
whom we have studied, your neighbors?
3. Is the prevailing tone of New York and other cities American or
Foreign? Give illustrations.
4. What is the prevailing tone in city government? Is there any
connection between the answers of these last two questions?
II. _Tenement-House Evils._
5. Where do most of the foreigners settle first in the United
States? Of what races is the mass chiefly composed?
6. Describe the conditions under which they live. Do they find them
so or make them so?
7. What remedies can be applied to tenement-house conditions? What
do the workers among them think of the needs and prospects?
8. What can be done toward improvement by the family? the school?
the city government?
III. _Prevalent Abuses._
9. Do the slum conditions tend to contaminate new arrivals? Do they
actually deteriorate?
10. What is the worst industrial feature of the tenement-house
districts? Describe its workings. Tell of some typical sweat-shop
workers.
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