Why is the suggestion made? Is there any menace? I have shown that under the present percentage law it has been brought down to a figure that is almost negligible when we come to the Increase of the foreign born. Do Senators realize that when we get immigration from northern and western Europe or southern and eastern Europe down to 200.000 the mortality among the foreign born here very much more than overcomes the inflow? The immigration from northern and western Europe gradually fell off from 1890 until it reached the figure of about 160.000 in 1913. The number of foreignborn Germans between 1900 and 1920 decreased a million. and the number of foreignborn Irishmen decreased 900.000. Why. if we go on with the present quota law and leave It at 3 per cent the number of foreign born. through mortality here. will gradually lessen every year. so that in the course of a decade even the Nordics will be pleased with the result.
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