Speech #680073938

The clirman 1Mr..1OHNSON of Washington] and several other members of the committee and their professional propagandists. for the purpose of creating apprehllision and prejudice. make statements that lillions of aliens fire ready to sail. The magazines. yes. the daily newspapers. under prominent headlines. reprint these prejudicecreative statements that millions are ready to come. The same irrational statements were made in 1910 and 1920 before the quota legislation was enacted. and what are the actual facts. gentlemen. before the 3 per cent quota act went into effect? I know you will be surprised when I tell you that since the enactment of the literacy test immigration law of 1917. and up to and including the fiscal year 1921. before the quotl act went into effect. only 1.087.432 came and 623.076 departed. leavhig an hcrease due to immigration in five years of only 464.356. You tire being made to believe that millions arrived here within the last 10 years. The facts are that since the 1917 illiteracy. restrictive. and selective immigration bill was enacted the entire increase in our inumigration has been 760.710. In other words. in seven years the entire increase froin European immigration since 1917. including 1923. is only 7130.710. To verify my statement I Insert herewith a table of immigration and emigration for the years 1917 to 1023. inclusive: linomigration and etmlgration. 1917 to 1923. inctusive (From pp. 119 and 120 of Report of Commissioner of Immigration. 1923 Total .turopem ilnnigration Eaiigra Net gain Net loss eio I Ie ls 1917 ------------------------------------ 133.083 35. 317 97.716 ---------1918 ------------ 1 8---------------------- 31. 063 31. 500 ------ 437 1919 9 19-----------------------_--.. -... 24. 627 84. 531 ------- 9. 904 1920 ------------------------------------ 240. 295 256. 4 3 ---------- 1l 138 1921 ----------------------------- ------- 06 2. 364 215.215 437. 119 1922 --------------------------------- 216. 387 166. 297 50. 901973 ----------------------------------- 307.920 61.656 246. 2 -4 Total-----------------------1.611.739 851. 029 831. 189 7 479 Loss loss by emigration. 1918. 1919. and 1920 ------------------------------- 70. 479 Net increase of immigration. 19171923 ------------------------------------- 761.710 And. of this number a majority are women and children. Where are these millions that the various gentlemen are talking about and making the country believe have been coming and are coming? As I say. tllere is no justification for these statements. These fiflures I have given are authentic. having been taken from the report of the Commssioner of Immigration. Of course. they do not include the legal and illegal Canadian and Mexican immigration. whch amounted to 247.540 since the 3 per cent law went into effect. That ligure represents a twoyear increase. and for the purpose of comparison of the immigration from these two quotaexempt countries with that of all European countries I submit the following table. giving the immigration and emigration from Canada and Mexico for the years 1917 to 1923. inclusive: Immigration CANADA 1917 ----------------------------------------------------105. 399 1918 ----------------------------------------------32. 452 1919 ------------------------------------------------- 57. 782 1920 --------------------------------------------------- 90. 025 1921 -------------------------------------------------- 72. 317 1922 ---------------------------------------------- 46. 0 1923 --------------------------------------------------- 117.011 Total -------------------------------------------- 521. 790 MEXICO 1917 --------------------------------------------------- 17. 86) 1918 -----------------------------------------------------1. 524 1919 ----------------------------------------------------29. is 1920 --------------------------------------------------- 52. 361 1921 --------------------------------------------------- 30.758 1.922 --------------------------------------------------- 19. 951 1928 -------------------------63. 768 Total --------------------------------------------233. 149 Total Canadian and Mexican imluigration ------------ 754. 845 Pmigration CANADA 1917 --------------------------------------------------iS. 1994 1918 ----------------------------------------------- 27. 170 1919 ----------------------------------------------- 0. 726 1920 -------------------------------------------------- 7. 668 1921 ----------------------------------------------- 5. 456 1922 --------------------- ---------- 4. 480 1923 ----------------------------------------------- 2.775 Total -----------------------------------------77. 249 MiCXICO 1917 ------------------------------------------------- 12 1918 -----------------------------------------------25. 515 1919 ----------------------------------------------- 18. 000 1920 -----------------------------------------------0. 606 1921 ----------------------------------------------- 5. 705 1922 ----------------------------------------------- 285 1923 -------------------------- ------- 2.660 Total -----------------------------------------65. 583 Total Canadian and Mexican emigration ------------142. 852 Total Canadian and Mexican increase immigration for sevenyear period. 011.793. Five hundred and twentyone thousand seven hundred and ninetytwo Canadians a1d 233.049 Mexicans have entered tills comtry in this sevenyear period. a grand total of 754.845. and during the same period but 142.52 have returned to their respective countries. leaving an absolute net increase in Canadian and Mexican immigration to this country of 61.1.793. Refer to the European table which I have submitted and you will observe the net increase in inmigration for the sale sevenyear period is 761.710. Tile greatest immigration from Canada and Mexico in the history of our country took place in this last fiscal year. ending June 30. 1923. I am not in position to say how much greater it will be in 1924. Understand.