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American Experience: Self-Making and Self-Help image, Wheatley wrote…

- - - - Children
        
        Jacob Riis, “How the Other Half Lives,” (1890)
        
        There became a fascination with the poor, and the children that lived in these tenements took on the habits of their environment around them. This became a problem because those children were the future of the country, and the majority of voters were coming from these tenements.
        “The problem of the children becomes, in these swarms, to the last degree perplexing. Their very number make one stand aghast. I have already given instances of the packing of the child population in East Side tenements. They might be continued indefinitely until the array would be enough to startle any community. For, be it remembered, these children with the training they receive--or do not receive--with the instincts they inherit and absorb in their growing up, are to be our future rulers, if our theory of government is worth anything. More than a working majority of our voters now register from the tenements.
    - - W. E. B. Du Bois, “The Talented Tenth,” (1903)
      - Frederick Winslow Taylor, “The Principles of Scientific Management,” (1910)
  - - - The statue of Liberty was erected as a sign of America’s promise of being the Land of Opportunity. She was the Mother of Exiles, welcoming immigrants with open arms, creating this American culture of “The Melting Pot.”