It neither says it is impossible nor does it say it can be done. It says that it has endeavored to work out the problem with the 3.000.000 of original colonial stock according to the census of 1790. and ends that inquiry by saying that 20.000.000 of that 47.000.000 may be descended from the original stock. that 27.000.000 are obviously descended from a mixed stock. and that It is perfectly possibletheoretically. at least.-to say that every native white person of native parentage In the United States in 1920 is of mixed native and foreign stock. That is the conclusion of the Census Bureau after working upon this problem for 20 years. and when all they had to do was to eliminate immigrants from 3.000.000 of native stock. Now it is proposed to undertake to ascertain the national stocks of 40 different nationalities that have come here at different times. The Senator from Pennsylvania asks us to engraft that proposition into a scientific Immigration bill. so that the United States of America shall say we have adopted a law in which two years from now we agree to base our quota upon the national stock of 40 different nationalities.
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