No. 75.040. The conditions making necessary legislation either suspending or radically restricting immigration are imperative.. and just as compelling at this time as at any period since the close of the war. Conditions of unemployment are more aggravated. Conservative estimates place the number of uiemployed in this country at this time at more than 4.000.000. and no program has yet been proposed for immediate action that insures that business revival and general prosperity necessary to provide for their reemployment. We hould keep in mind the fact that there is a limit to the capacityof this country to absorb people of other nationalities. The Republican platform adopted at Chicago says: The immigration policy of the United States should be such as to insure that the number of foreigners in the country at any time shall not exceed that which can be assimilated with reasonable rapidity. If that platform declaration is to be further taken into consideration. the correct thing to do would be to suspend imumigration completely for at least a peridd of 10 years. or for an indefinite period. If we mean by " assimilation " that the foreigner shall become a homogeneous part of the American population. in full sympathy and accord with the ch*aracter and spirit of our institutions. with undivided loyalty to our Constitution and time flag of the Republic. then the mass of aliens now in this country present a problem that will require a numniber of years to solve. There are now some 1.0.000.000 aliens in America unnaturalized and who have taken no steps to become a part and parcel of the American people. In addition to these it is quite well known that there are several lillion others who in the proper acceptation of the term are unassimilated and" who belong to those groups of foreign birth nnd extraction. nany of whom may be naturalized and have American citizenhip. but who still belong to that class designated by Gen. Pershng as those who " attempt to decide American questions for a foreign reason." Our work of assimilation will not be complete and our system of Americanization will continue to be a failure until the condiion to which Gen. Pershing so strenuously objects is removed.
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Generalizations about foreigners not assimilating, being disloyal, and deciding American questions for foreign reasons.