Mr. Speaker. we are indebted to Secretary Nagel. of the Department of Connerce and Labor. for his clear and forceful letter to the President on this subject. lIe has indicated the difficulties that will arise in the enfoxcement of the act and has pointed out the hardship of the literacy test. but he is only one of many of the great thinkers who have enlightened us upon this matter? The distinguished historianstatesman. HENRY CABOT LODGE. ill an address before the Boston City Club in March. 1908. discussing the assimilation of aliens. amuong other things. said: " Within the last 20 years. however. there has been a great change in the proportion of the various nationalities emigrating from Europe to the United States. The immigrants from Great Britain and Ireland and from Germany and Scandinw-.-ia have come down in numbers as compared with immigrants from countries which. until very recent years. sent no immigrants to America. We have never received. and do not now receive. any immigration from Spain or any considerable immigration from France and Belgium. The great growth in recent years in our immigration has been from Italy. from Poland. Hungary. and Russia. from eastern Europe. from subjects of the Sultan. and is now extending to the inhabitants of Asia Minor. With the exception of the Italians. these people have never been amalgamated with or brought in contact with the Englishspeaking people or with those of France.
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