The fact is. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen. the new immigration is not of the kind or quality to meet the real needs of our country. We are being made a dumping ground. We are receiving the dependents. the human wreckage of the war. not the strength and virility that once came to hew our forests. to break our virgin soil. to delve in our mines. and to toil in our factories. And worst of all they are coming in such numbers and at a time when we are unable adequately to take care of them. � Commissioner Copeland of the New York Health Service reports on December 4. 1920. as follows: The question of immigration is one of serious moment to the city. The great influx of aliens to our port results in the settling in the city of a considerable number of these immigrants. Our housing facilities are now seriously overcrowded and no provision is being made to take care of our normal increase. without considering these foreign hordes. The same situation obtains everywhere. Every large city in the country is overcrowded. A congressional commission at this moment is endeavoring to point a way toward relief. but so far without success. If the end of the immigrant flood were in sight the situation would be far less serious. But all reports agree that we have seen only the beginning. The report which the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization has submitted contains a digest of statements made by our consular officers abroad. I urge Members of the House to read it. You will note that people of every land are trying to find ways and means to escape their warmade miseries. that they are unfit for life in America. for the strain of competition in this country. or for life in the ghettos of our great cities. whither most of them will tend. Dr. Rupert Blue. former Surgeon General of the United States Public Health Service. reports from Paris. December 3only last Thursdayafter an inspection trip. that emigration from Europe for the next few years will be limited only by the availal)ility of shipping. Dr. Blue further says: If emigration is permitted soon from Germany. Hungary. and Austria. the number of potential emigrants can not be calculated. Every citizen of the United States who has been abroad recently returns with the same statement. Ole Hanson. former mayor of Seattle. returned November 21 from a trip made for the purpose of studying the situation.
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The new immigrants are described as dependents and human wreckage, not the strong and virile people who built the country.