Speech #680069951

It Is an insoluble problem to undertake to separate this 58.000.000 into racial groupsto unscramble. as It were. the racial stocks in those groups. It can not be done. For 20 years the Census Bureau experts have worked upon the following problem: How many people would the United States have had if the 3.000.000 of colonial stock. according to the census of 1790. had remained in the country and had increased and there had been no immigration? They reached the conclusion that in 1890 that stock would have amounted to 35.000.000. They reached that conclusion by three methods. and they took the average of the results ascertained by the three methods. First. they eliminated all the Immigrants who had come here. and computed the native stock. Secondly. they took the increase of the native stock iii tile Southern States. where there had been no immigration. Thirdly. they had the grandfather census of Massachusetts of 1907 or 1908. in which they undertook to show what proportion of the people of Massachusetts had grandfathers of native stock. Thue results of those three methods led to different conclusions. but they took an average. and they said that by 1890