Speech #680083548

I agree to the proposition of keeping out every undesirable. When we establish these boards. if they are properly administered. we can afford to take down all. of the doors and let as many come in as come here equipped for American citizenship. But as I look at the diagran on the wall to which I have invited attention I take it that it is intended to demonstrate that immigration from the United Kingdom was all right when it was very large in proportion to the total of the immigrants. and that it was all right to come from Germany in large numler: but that the trouble is there has been a diminution of the leo)le from the United Kingdom and from Germany and a larger number of People proportionately have come from the other countries. Singularly enough. the map. which must be a very bungling affair. does not show anything about the menace of immigration that has come from Scandinavia. They are put in with all others." \Vhat made this change in inimigration? Economic conditions in Europe were such that the people of the United Kingdom did not much care to move. Economic conditions in Germany were such that the people of Germany did not care to emigrate in later years. Of course. they have been shut out since the war. and therefore the figures are utterly deceiving. utterly deceptive. Now reverse the economic conditions and you will reverse immigration. There is not a man in this Chamber who does not know that if we were to open the doors tomorrow and say to every German who wants to come to this country and can qualify. "Tile doors are open." that we would have a large imnigration from Germany. So that if it is desirable you can get it by letting them come in. Let us have no more of this hocuspocus and false pretense. If you want to keep a Germanout. say so. but do not put up a map here indicating to me that he was desirable and Is desirable. and that there are so few of them coming that that is one reason why we are putting this bill through. You know and I know that with the present economic conditions in Gerninny. if you will open the doors you will have plenty of immigrants from Germany. Moreover. if we are to judge anything by what we hear of economic conditions in the British Isles. we wvould have a large increase in immigration from there. We would have a large increase. undoubtedly. from all of the northern countries of Europe. because the applications that have come and the desire to come in from those countries already indicate it. Vhat about Austria?