Those who can be assimilated and who are eligible for citizenship we should admit only as rapidly as they can be assimilated. We can not be too careful on this score. The Immigration Committee has had more than five years since the close of the European war to frame a proper restriction policy that will protect American interests. and it is extremely unfortunate that they have injected into this very desirable purpose an unAmerican spirit of racial animosity as unnecessary as it is deplorable. The gentleman from Massachusetts [Mr. Roa~ns] by his amendment proposes to base immigration not upon a percentage of foreign born in this country in any one year but upon all those who have come to our shores before and since the foundation of our Government. Although agreeing with this proposition in principle. I am opposed to the amendment because it is unworkable. It is a suggestion that the Census Bureau ascertain the unascertainable. All the figures which have been given in this debate. all of the figures which were included in the remarks on last Tuesday by my colleague from New York . and those which have been referred to by the gentleman from Massachusetts this morning. are based upon a Census Bureau publication written by Doctor North in 1900. entitled "A Century of Population Growth (17901900)." Doctor .North reaches conclusions and percentages of nationalities based upon false premises. The theories which for his purpose he adopts and the percentage of nationalities which he gets in the working out of his theories are widely divergent from everything we have read In American history about the emigration from Europe to America.
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