Speech #620291676

It the last fiscal year the net gain in population by inmmigration was only 400.000 and the year before that only 500.000. In the calendar year just closed about 500.000 aliens went back home. In .908. it will be remembered. the outflow was actually larger than the Inflow. and we lost population by the homeward movement of immigrants. In five years our net gain has been about iwo and a half millions. so that the average annual increase of population by immigration has amounted to about onehalf of 1 per centby no means an alarmingly larg admixture of aliens. Immigration from 1.840 to 1850 and from 1850 to 3800 and from 1880 to 1.890 amounted to more than 10 per cent of the total population at the beginning of each period. Relatively it was twice as great as the immigration of the last five years. The gentleman from Texas has stated during debate that the Greeks and the South Italians ire unassimilable. incapable of conforming to customs in a free republic. and so forth. I want to quote from Daniel Webster. who in 3823. speaking "hi favor of recognizing the independence of Greece in the old House of Representatives. now Statuary Hall. said: An occasion which calls the attention to a spot so distinguished. so connected with interesting recollections is Greece may naturally create something of warmth and enthusiasm.