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WWI has recently begun, Wilson is POTUS, US is not directly involved in the war.  Wilson was not eager to go to war; he believed that neutrality best suited the nation's interests. Those who supported neutrality were "American" because of their desire to act in favor of the nation's best interests rather than succumbing to personal political beliefs that may favor going to war.

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The Trump administration says its compass is set to " America first." A century ago, President Woodrow Wilson, standing at Arlington Cemetery on Memorial Day, told the nations of Europe: "We did not set this government up in order that we might have a separate and selfish liberty, for we are now ready to come to your assistance and fight out upon the field of the world the cause of human liberty."

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"President Wilson Making His Memorial Day Address at Arlington, May 30, 1917." Credit International Film Service/The New York Times Mid-Week Pictorial, June 14, 1917

"America will once more have an opportunity to show to the world that she was born to save mankind," Wilson said.

Those words sound confident now. But on Memorial Day 1917, it was not entirely clear that America would demonstrate the commitment of which the president spoke so forcefully. In six days, every man in the country age 21 to 30 - about 10 million in all - was to register for possible conscription into the armed forces. Pacifists, anarchists and anti-imperialists seemed ready to disrupt the enrollment, and evidence was accumulating of younger men heading abroad to evade the draft.

On June 6, however, The New York Times reported that the registration process had been " sustained heartily."

In New York City, which was then (as it remains) a sociological stewpot, officials were especially pleased by the enthusiasm among ethnic and racial minorities. "The most remarkable thing is how well and willingly the foreign element has responded," the Manhattan registry chairman said. "These people are on the 'job.' They seem anxious to serve the country of their adoption. This speaks well for America. It means that our institutions are guaranteed to posterity."

Propaganda helped the effort along. Posters like this one, by James Daugherty, showed virile young men - unblemished by combat - posed as if they were ready to receive a victory garland without having lifted a well-muscled finger. Readers of The Times who had been witnessing the grisly war of attrition since 1914 might have known that a different fate was in store.

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"The Nation Appeals With the Aid of Artists to the Patriotism of Young America." Credit James Daugherty/The New York Times Mid-Week Pictorial, June 14, 1917

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America 'Was Born to Serve Mankind,' Wilson Says

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The Trump administration says its compass is set to " America first." A century ago, President Woodrow Wilson, standing at Arlington Cemetery on Memorial Day, told the nations of Europe: "We did not set this government up in order that we might have a separate and selfish liberty, for we are now ready to come to your assistance and fight out upon the field of the world the cause of human liberty."

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Ida B. Wells was a muckraker during the Progressive Era. Wells also was an African-American journalist and activist who led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States. Wells believed lynching was a horrible thing and it was her goal to put lynching to an end. She wrote "The Red Record criticizing the unpunished lynching of thousands of blacks Her work was largely ignored by the government and lynching continued

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african-american journalist ida b. wells

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In 1892, Ida B. Wells' friend Thomas Moss and two other African-American men were lynched in Memphis, a horrific act that inspired Wells to begin her

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Booker T Political cartoon // (Jar'Heem T)

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Booker T Political cartoon // (Jar'Heem T)

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Booker T was invited to the white house along with many other Negros. Segregation was still in affect but Booker t was able to be close and a major figure at this time. This political cartoon to me has much meaning like many big officials are trying to unite or create a new way for the blacks.

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The twenty-five cent lodging-house keeps up the pretense of a bedroom, though the head-high partition enclosing a space just large
enough to hold a cot and a chair and allow the man room to pull off his clothes is the shallowest of all pretenses. The fifteen-cent bed
stands boldly forth without screen in a room full of bunks with sheets as yellow and blankets as foul. At the ten-cent level the locker
for the sleeper's clothes disappears. There is no longer need of it. The tramp limit is reached, and there is nothing to lock up save, on
general principles, the lodger. Usually the ten- and seven-cent lodgings are different grades of the same abomination. Some sort of an
apology for a bed, with mattress and blanket, represents the aristocratic purchase of the tramp who, by a lucky stroke of beggary, has
exchanged the chance of an empty box or ash-barrel for shelter on the quality floor of one of these "hotels." A strip of canvas, strung
between rough timbers, without covering of any kind, does for the couch of the seven-cent lodger who prefers the questionable
comfort of a red-hot stove close to his elbow to the revelry of the stale-beer dive. It is not the most secure perch in the world. Uneasy
sleepers roll off at intervals, but they have not far to fall to the next tier of bunks, and the commotion that ensues is speedily quieted by
the boss and his club. On cold winter nights, when every bunk had its tenant, I have stood in such a lodging-room more than once, and
listening to the snoring of the sleepers like the regular strokes of an engine, and the slow creaking of the beams under their restless
weight, imagined myself on shipboard and experienced the very real nausea of sea-sickness. The one thing that did not favor the
deception was the air; its character could not be mistaken.
The proprietor of one of these seven-cent houses was known to me as a man of reputed wealth and respectability. He "ran" three such
establishments and made, it was said, $8,000 a year clear profit on his investment. He lived in a handsome house quite near to the
stylish precincts of Murray Hill, where the nature of his occupation was not suspected. A notice that was posted on the wall of the
lodgers' room suggested at least an effort to maintain his up-town standing in the slums. It read: "No swearing or loud talking after
nine o'clock." Before nine no exceptions were taken to the natural vulgarity of the place; but that was the limit.
There are no licensed lodging-houses known to me which charge less than seven cents for even such a bed as this canvas strip, though
there are unlicensed ones enough where one may sleep on the floor for five cents a spot, or squat in a sheltered hallway for three. The
police station lodging-house, where the soft side of a plank is the regulation couch, is next in order. The manner in which this police
bed is "made up" is interesting in its simplicity. The loose planks that make the platform are simply turned over, and the job is done,
with an occasional coat of whitewash thrown in to sweeten things. I know of only one easier way, but, so far as I am informed, it has
never been introduced in this country. It used to be practiced, if report spoke truly, in certain old-country towns. The "bed" was
represented by clothes-line stretched across the room upon which the sleepers hung by the arm-pits for a penny a night. In the morning
the boss woke them up by simply untying the line at one end and letting it go with its load; a labor-saving device certainly, and highly
successful in attaining the desired end. . . .. . . If the tenement is here continually dragged into the eye of public condemnation and scorn, it is because in one way or another it is
found directly responsible for, or intimately associated with, three-fourths of the miseries of the poor. In the Bohemian quarter it is
made the vehicle for enforcing upon a proud race a slavery as real as any that ever disgraced the South. Not content with simply
robbing the tenant, the owner, in the dual capacity of landlord and employer, reduces him to virtual serfdom by making him become
his tenant, on such terms as he sees fit to make, the condition of employment at wages likewise of his own making. It does not help the
case that this landlord employer, almost always a Jew, is frequently of the thrifty Polish race just described. . . .
. . . Probably more than half of all the Bohemians in this city are cigar makers, and it is the herding of these in great numbers in the so called tenement factories, where the cheapest grade of work is done at the lowest wages, that constitutes at once their greatest hardship
and the chief grudge of other workmen against them. . . .

"How the other half lives" Was a important excerpt by Jacob. He was bringing attention towards the overall conditions and things that the (other)people who was the new immigrants etc dealt with. Instead of him being blind when it came to them, he exposed the reality of it. Overall it because of the american people as a whole mot really caring. The life as a immigrant was already hard with the process to even get here. Once they arrived they needed shelter and work so they took what they could get. Many families crammed in one little apartment and often had very little space due to work equipment and so many people inside. It was very smelly and not the most comfortable place to live at the time. They didn't have sewage or things like heat and air so that made things even worse. I think he chose