Speech #680079787

We welcome their travelers and their students. We wish to learn from them and they from us. but for citizenship or permanent residents I am opposed. Some persons have opposed restriction of immigration because they say we need additional labor in the country. While I admit we need the labor. yet it Is a fact that the immigrants we have been receiving confine themselves almost entirely to the cities and certainly do not join in performing the labor which is most desirous. There are advocates of immigration who say that we should receive them and allocate them to the various sections of the country where farm labor is needed. and yet it is shown that of the 800.000 Immigrants coming to America in 1921 only 2 per cent of them were farmers and 3 per cent farm laborers. so that It will be seen that. according to the present census. there is very little addition to the laborers of the country. both on the farm and in lines of industrial pursuit. America has erected a tariff wall. said to be for protecIon against cheap labor and cheap living. Why. then. bring cheap labor and cheap living to America to compete with our people? If the present bill becomes a law. no relative of any American within the class mentioned will be excluded. and yet we will reduce immigration some 200.000 below the present number admitted. The following table will afford Information as to the number admissible from various nations. in addition to which are those admitted as relatives of Americans: Number adisissiblc from various nations. in addition to which are those admitted as relatives of Americans Senate House commitbill2 tee rec- National 2 per cent ommen- Na no Nationality Present per cent dm rin- engins on Nto i of 1890 daton- method average with 2 per cn 1920 10 189. minimum of 1910 census19. 110. of 100 with and 1920 minimum of 100 Albania ------------------------ 88 104 192 38 182 Armenia ----------------------- 230 117 152 101 232 Austria ----------------------- 7.842 1. 090 4.894 3.685 4.871 Belgium ---- ....- ------... 1. 13 609 1.042 519 964 Bulgaria -------------------- N2 100 202 65 203 Czechoslovalda --------------- 14. 357 1.973 9. 572 2.639 6. 467 Danzig ------------------------ 301 323 200 98 311 Denmark --------------------- 5.619 2.882 3.748 2.183 3.467 Esthonla --------------------- 1.348 202 898 442 755 Finland -----------------------8. 921 245 2.614 995 1.859 Filme -------.- ........-------- 71 110 100 36 146 France ---------------------- 5.729 3.978 3.820 6.1526 3.702 Germany -------------------- 67. 607 45.229 45. 072 44. 035 39.297 Great Britain and Ireland ----- 77. 342 162.653 51.562 182.221 183.517 Greece -------------------- 3. 03 135 2.042 1.072 1.540 Hungary ------ --------------5.747 588 3.832 2. 518 3.449 Iceland ------------------------ 75 136 100 24 145 Italy -------------------------- 42. 057 4.689 28.038 11. 71.55 18.989 Latvia ------------------------ 1.540 217 1. 026 806 849 Lithuania -------------------- 2.622 402 1.752 888 1.427 Luxemburg -------------------- 97 158 100 153 208 Netherlands ------------------- 3. 602 1. 737 2.404 5. 339 2. 345 Norway ----------------------- 12. 205 6. 553 8. 134 4.866 7.267 Poland --------------------- 30. 079 8.972 20.652 0. 019 17.225 Portugal ---------------------- 2. 465 174 1.644 50 1.237 Rumania -------------------- 7.419 731 4.046 773 2.381 Russia --------------------- -- 24.405 1.892 16. 270 8.094 12.005 Spain ------------------------ 912 224 608 282 624 Sweden ------.-.-- .....------- 20.042 9.661 13. 362 7.413 11.886 Switzerland ------------------- 3.752 2.181 2.502 1.562 2.418 Yugoslavia -------------------- . 428 835 4.284 1.203 2. 555 Other Europe ------------------ 80 -----..... 100 66 . Palestine ----------------------- 57 101 100 20 327 Syria ------------------------ 882 312 188 324 527 Turkey ---------------------- 2. 654 123 1. 77.0 229 763 Other Asia --------------------- 92 ---------- 100 44 --------Africa ------------------------ 104 ---------- 100 39 ------Egypt ------------------------- 18 106 100 7 110 A ustralla ----_---------------- 279 220 106 96 209 New Zealand -----.......------ 80 167 100 40 163 Atlantic Islands --------------- 121 --------- 100 267 ---Japan ------------------------() (1) 1.443 360 () Total ------------------- 357.801 3161.184 240.459 300.000 r 3207.748 This figure of 62.658 Is the combined total for Great Britain.