The city has become a serious menace to our civilization It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.

Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster.

It may be easily shown, and is of no small significance, that the two great ideas of which the Anglo-Saxon is the exponent are having a fuller development in the United States than in Great Britain.

Heretofore there has always been in the history of the world a comparatively unoccupied land westward, into which the crowded countries of the East have poured their surplus populations.

The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center.

Our aristocracy, unlike that of Europe, is open to all comers.

As a rule, our largest cities are the worst governed.