Speech #680073962

Foreignlanguage newspapers have above 5.000.000 subscribers. Now. I do not care where a man was born. if he lives in this country and if his sympathies are with this land and not with some fatherland. upon consideration of these figures he must conclude that the time has come to drastically restrict immigration. If the ideals of other nations and of other peoples are not to be substituted for the ideals of America and Americans. we must assimilate the large foreignborn population now in our midst before we admit any more. These figures indicate that the United States is suffering from Indigestion of aliens. and the remedy Is the passage of this bill. Instead of the quota of 3 per cent. based on the 1010 census. this bill provides a quota of 2 per cent based on the 1890 census. The effect of this is only to balance the immigration. To fix the 1920 or 1910 census is to discriminate in favor of the immigration of recent years and against those who arrived at an earlier date and contributed greatly to the development of the Nation. It is the present law. not the proposed law. that is discrimilnatory. Under the present law the quota is based on the number of foreign born in this country in 1910. No consideration is given to time number of native citizens who made this country what It Is today. According to the figures of 1920. the total number of foreign born from southern and eastern Europe was W 5 6.422.727. Counting those who were born In this country but the North In recent years. so many will have to be admitted whose parents were born in southern and eastern Europe. they thft they Will not only break down the wage scale but will constituted approximately 12.000.000. or 1.1 per cent of the total likely break down the Government. In this day of organization population. And the immigration from these countries last iin inlustry a reduction of wages to such an extent as to drive year constituted 44 per cent of our total immigration. Was this! Ithe negro back to the farm will result in destroying the purnot discrimination in favor of these nations? chasing power of the people ofthe North and be reflected in the Under the Johnson bill southern and easternEurope. whose linability of the farmer to sell the :products of the farm at a people constitute 11 per cent of our total population. Will be iprofit. allowed 15 per cent of the total quota immigration. in uddi- Only 2 per cent of the aliens admitted last year claimed to be tion. they will profit most from the provision allowing parents -farmers. The Immigrants coming to this country during recent and minor children to eter outside of the quota. It -can not years could not be Induced to work upon farms In the SoUth. be fairly contended that this is discrimination against those and the only conclusion onecan reach is that those who make nations. Any other basis would be unfair and discriminatory -such arguments hope that after a short stay Upon the farms against those people comprising the other 79 per cent of the they Will drift Into the cotton mills.