Speech #680074734

In 1910 the percentage dropped to 51.9. and. as I have already stated. it was only 49.9 In 1920. The relative loss in the native stock. or gain in the foreign stock. was 3.9 per cent from 1900 to 1910 and only 2 per cent from 1910 to 1920. The World War is no doubt responsible for the marked check in the increase of our foreign stock during the last census decade. though it is not at all improbable that Congress would have placedt a restriction on immigration earlier if the war had not done so. It our census reports the white immigrant is classed as foreignhorn white." His children by his foreignborn wife then become " native whites of foreign parentage." The children of a white immigrant by an Americanborn wife are classed as "native whites of mixed parentage." The aggregate of these three classes of our population. sometimes erroneously referred to as "foreign white stock." was. in 1920. 36.398.958. or 76.6 per cent of the total foreign white stock anti 38.4 per cent of the entire white population of the United States. The remainder of the total foreign white stock are those whose ancestors. further removed than father mid mother. were foreign born. The Americanization of these thirtysix and a third million of our population is. in many cases. only skin deep and is merely a mask to be quickly thrown aside when the interests of their dear fatherland are involved. as has been abundantly shown by the conduct of the socalled GermanAmericans during and since the World War. Mr.