Speech #630383889

In -order -to understand the basis of such .recommendation we must follow these streams. .note their -course. and :mreeasure their volume. -In doing this -we. want to .remeniber -one .rem arkable -fact. -because -we have had two types of immigration in this countrywhat the commission terms the old -type of immigration -and :also what they term -the new type. Down to 1882. 87 per cent -of all European Imiigration -coming into the -United -States came from western .iid northern EuropeEngland. -Scotland. Ireland. Germany. -F rance. the Scandinavian .States. and Belgium. Eighty~seven per cent .down to the time when we first adopted legislation upon this subject came from that section. and only 13 .per cent -of the whole came from other sections of Europe. Yet we findl 25 years later that this 87 per cent coming from northern *and western Europe had been reduced -to 20 per cent. so that S0 -.914. "i1~ per cent of the ent ire immigration was coming from other see.lions of.Europe. very largely from eastern and southern Europe. Prior to the Civil War we had received about 5.000.000 aliens and they became thoroughly assimilated under the fusing heat of that contest. From 1860 to 1882. when we adopted our first legislation upon this subject. we had received something over 0.000.000 -aliens. very largely. probably 80 per cent. from northern and .western Europe.