Speech #600064556

This opposition is made in the face of the fact that settlers from the States largely pre)onderat.e )oth in wealth and in numnbers. The strange inconsistency of these very leadeis is that they pretend to see no danger from the *Unirestricted flow of this very same blood into the United States. A brief comparison of the immigration in 18S2. when the change began. with that in 1905 will be instructive to those who really seek the truth. Prior to 1882 the principal sources of our recruits were the British Isles. Germany. Scandinavia. and the Netherlands. About that time the change began. and there was a rapid shifting of tile sources of immigration from western to eastern and southern Europe. In 1882 the total immigration from all Europe and Turkey in Asia was 647.000. in 1905 it was 1.024.000. and in 1906 about 1.200.000. Of those admitted in 1882. there were 503.000 from the countries of western Europe. There were only 83.637 that year from southern and eastern Europe and Turkey in Asiathat is. of the total immigration. 87 per cent of it was from northwestern Europe. In 1905 there were only 216.000 from the countries of northwestern Europe and 809.000 from the countries of eastern and southern Europethat is. of the total immigration. 21.7 per cent was from northwestern Europe and 78.9 per cent from eastern and southern Europe. To emphasize the danger of this condition. I will contrast the immigration of a few of the countries during those two years. From Great Britain in 1882 there came 179.000. in 1905. when the total inimigration had nearly doubled. it had fallen to 102.200. In 1882 it was nearly 28 per cent of the total immigr htion. in 1905. not quite 10 per cent. In 1882 Germany sent us 250.000. in 1905. 37.500. In 1882 it sent over 38 per cent of the entire immigration. in 1905. less than 4 per cent. In 1882 Sweden sent 64.600. in 1905. 23.300. In 1882 it sent 10 per cent. in 1905. a little over 2 per cent.