But how about the foreign-born?
Does he know it?
Is it not perhaps like the owner of the bulldog who assured the friend calling on him that it never attacked friends of the family?
"Yes," said the friend, "that's all right.

You know and I know that I am a friend of the family; but does the dog know ?" Is it to-day made known to the foreign-born, about to exercise his privilege of suffrage for the first time, where he can be told what that privilege means: is the means to know made readily accessible to him: is it, in fact, as it should be, brought to him?
It was not to me; is it to him?
One fundamental trouble with the present desire for Americanization is that the American is anxious to Americanize two classes--if he is a reformer, the foreign-born; if he is an employer, his employees.

It never occurs to him that he himself may be in need of Americanization.
He seems to take it for granted that because he is American-born, he is an American in spirit and has a right understanding of American ideals.
But that, by no means, always follows.

There are thousands of the American-born who need Americanization just as much as do the foreign-born.

There are hundreds of American employers who know far less of American ideals than do some of their employees.