Speech #680076240

I want to read another sentence from Mr. Curanns speech of a fortnight ago. He says this: Te first essential is to resolve our 100.000.000 of Americans into more of a national unit. and the best way to help this through Immigration Is to admit from each European country the same fraction of the annual total number of immigrants that the natives and descendants of that country already here hear to our present total of 100.000.000 of Americans. That is to say. gentlemen. if there is In the whole body of the white American population 1 per cent of Portuguese stock. we will say that each year after this we will admit 1 per cent of Portuguese immigration into the United States. In other wordsSays Currantake us as we are today and then add each year in whatever amount Congress may decree. a European Immigration installment that reflects in its national composite makeup exactly the national composite makeup of the American people as we all muster today. Let each years immigration be an exact miniature of what we are as to stock. - nation by nation. like to like. And then mark this -significant comment from an expert on the subject: I have talked with many people who oppose using the 1890 measure. but not one of them has dissented from the basis I have outlined. Gentlemen. you can not dissent from this principle. because it is fair.