They can not be considered as final. You will observe from this table how drastic are the reductions for southern and eastern European countries as compared with reductions for northern and western European countries. As a matter of fact. these preferential countries labeled pseudoScientlfic terminology. as the " Nordic" race will get the bulk of the new immigration. Great Britain. the Irish Free State. and Germany alone will be credited with 108.887 besides the other Nordic races. which would make a total of 131.824. and thus out pf a grand total of 161.184 would leave only 29.360 for all the other nationalities combined. All fairminded Americans will agree with me that there Is. in this new Johnson bill. a discriminating feature absolutely unjustified either by the facts of history or by any spirit of fatr play. Take the Italian Immigration for example. Our loyal ally in the recent war is permitted under the present law to have 42.057 of its citizens enter our country. but under the new bill only 4.089 will be permitted to enter our land. Is It any wonder that the Italian Government has entered a form of protest and may We not expect protests to come from other countries who have been similarly discriminated against? In fact. we .may expect form of protests from these Countries on the ground that -the Johnson bill violates. if not the letter at least the spirit. of existing treaties. Our Immigration Committee has received a communication from the Secretary of State. Mr. Hughes. that we nay expect such protests.
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