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leads. The Census is the sword that shatters secrecy, the key that opens trebly-guarded doors; the Enumerator is vested with the Nation's greatest right--the Right To Know--and on his findings all battle-lines depend. "When through Atlantic and Pacific gateways, Slavic, Italic, and Mongol hordes threaten the persistence of an American America, his is the advances of civilization, or point the perils of illiterate and alien-tongue communities. To show how this great Census work is done, to reveal the mysteries its figures half-disclose, to point the paths to heroism in the United States to-day, and to bind closer the kinship between all peoples of the earth who have become "Americans" is the aim and purpose of THE AUTHOR. CONTENTS CHAPTER I A BLOOD FEUD IN OLD KENTUCKY CHAPTER II RESCUING A LOST RACE CHAPTER III A MANUFACTORY OF RIFLES CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V "DON'T DEPORT MY OLD MOTHER!" CHAPTER VI THE NEGRO CENSUS FROM THE SADDLE CHAPTER VII HOBOES ON THE TRAMP CHAPTER VIII THE CENSUS HEROES OF THE FROZEN NORTH CHAPTER IX CONFRONTED WITH THE BLACK HAND CHAPTER X RIOTS AROUND A CITY SCHOOL | ||||
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