I can not yield now. That is the exact question before us. The national origins plan vaults completely over the controversy as to whether the admission quota should be based on the census of 1890 or on that of 191.0 and lands upon broader grounds where larger considerations come Into play. My plan. based on the foreignb rn population as disclosed by any cemsus. is indefensible. The same argument inust be urged against the proposal that we lake all four of the most recent censuses. average the foreignborn. and base the quota upon the average. The general principle is fallacious. It is certainly an attractive proposition that we should instead proportion our admission of immigrants. not to the umbers of racial or national representatives composing the alien colonies or foreign groups now in the country but to the quantities of the various racial and national elements which have * passed the refining test of the melting pot and have become amalgamated in the structure of the American Nation.
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