We appreciate the wonderful strides made in civilization by the Japanese. but with this law enforced they can continue to progress at home and not on the possessions of the United States. Those opposing this bill base their objections. they say. on the discrimination made and not because.it is restrictive. The census of 1890 is taken as a basis of computation instead of the census of 1920. and this they say is a discrimination. because prior to 1890 the immigration from southern Europe and eastern Europe had been small In proportion to the immigration from northern and western Europe. That this will be the result is true. The relative proportions of nationals to be admitted will vary with each census and to select any one census will materially change the quotas from any other census. and it is right and just. without considering the desirability of the different classes of European nations. that that census be adopted nearest to the time when the settlement of this country and its early development took place. It happens that the census of 1890 is the census first giving the respective numbers of foreign born. Using the same per cent of quota. more English. Irish.
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