Ely forwards Addams part of a letter from Justice O. W. Holmes of the U. S. Supreme Court, expressing how much he liked Addam's book Democracy and Social Ethics.
Addams discusses the association in the public eye between settlements and immigrants and when immigrants are involved in high profile crimes, settlements are accused of supporting anarchism. Addams defends the role of the settlement as the bridge between immigrant communities and the American public, holding that it does not change in times of crisis.
