Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee. my only regret in supporting this bill is that it is not sufliciently rigid to protect fully the rights of the American people. Wlien I study the figures showing the number of immigrants who have actually come into this country sine the signing of the armistice in 1918. and observe in that connection the rapid increase per month of the number of imiligrants. I am more and more impressed with the necessity for the most stringent immigration laws. To illustrate. during the last half of the ealendar year 1919. 124.952 immigrants were admitted. or an average of 20.825 per month. in the first half of the calendar year 1920. this number was increased to 267.118. or an average of 54.519 per month. and in the last half of the calendar year 1920. 548.511 more Immigrants were admitted to this country. or an average of 91.418 per month. It has been conservatively estimated that 350.000 have come into this country since this bill was passed in December of last year. These figures show a tremendous increase in the number of immigrants who are now coining into this country. and this is true. notwithstanding the fact that we are still technically at war with Germany and Austria. and no immigrants fron those countries have been admitted since 1914. and none from Russia since 1917. If peace is declared. and the rate of increase of the past six months is kept up. it is not at all unreasonable to expect that the number of immigrants coining to this country in the fiscal year ending June 30. 1922. will exceed 2.000.000 persons. We have heard much about emergency of late. but in my judgment this is one of the greatest emergencies that has ever confronted the representatives of the people of the United States. 1. for one. believe most earnestly that this is the time to awake and protect the American people against the ceaseless tide of immigrants flowing into this country. A study of the character of these immigrants discloses tlat many of them are restless. adventurous. and poverty stricken. Some of them have criminal habits and dispositions. and others are afflicted with the most terrible diseases known to the Old World. and to turn them loose into this country under the lax rules and regulations now in force is but to invite crime. dissension. disorder. and suffering.
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Many immigrants are restless, adventurous, poverty stricken, have criminal habits, and are afflicted with terrible diseases.