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There Is no panacea for our infliction. since our troubles are chronic and complex. but we face the supreme moment in the affairs of our beloved country. and consequently our duty Is passing hnperative. It Is necessary that we set our own house in order. for if we do not the beginning of the end will soon dawn. because in the place of our sturdy pioneer race will rise a mongrel one. an unstable and bastardized population. where character and merit would have no recognition to leadership. but might and greed only would be supreme. The Committee on Immigration. of which I have the honor to be a member. has already prepared a bill known as H. R. 6540. purporting to alleviate the perils and mitigate the dangers confronting and encompassing us. In order that you may approach. solve. and settle this matter from the standpoint of the United States. and the United States alone. and to the end that you may visualize the menace enveloped in this dominant question. let me here and now submit to you some facts most pertinent and germane to the question. This is a nation. of something over 105.000.000 persons. divided as to color and nativity as follows: Approximately 58.000.000 are native white. of native parentage. Approximately 37.000.000 are foreign born or of foreignborn or mixed parentage. Approximately 10.000.000 are colored people. Approximately 1.000.000 of other races. In New York City 53.4 per cent of the male population 21 years of age and.over Is foreign born. (Census Monograph I. p. 106.) In the great State of Illinois the foreignborn male population 21 years of age and over nearly doubles the native white male 21 years of age and over. the foreign born totaling 613.797 whereas the native whites only number 344.319. (Statistical Abstract. U. S.. 1921. p. 48.) Twentynine per cent of the total population of Rhode Island is foreign born. 28.3 per cent of the total population of the State of Massachusetts is foreign born. 27.4 per cent of the total population of the State of Connecticut is foreign born. 25.5 per cent of the total population of the whole of New England is foreign born. (Statistical Abstract. U. S.. 1921. p. 73.) Bearing in mind these percentages. together with the foreign borns propensity to prolific multiplication. coupled with the native borns tendency to race suicide. one does not need a very fertile Imagination to visualize the already existence of a majority of the population of foreign blood. In fact. the census shows that over 60 per cent of the population of New England is of foreign stock. 62 percent of New York is of foreign stock. 58 per cent of New Jersey is of foreign stock.