If you were to take the census of those who framed the Constitution of the United States. you would find that 80 per cent of them were from the countries I named. You would find where they came from. and you would find that they came from those countries. Now. take the immigration from other countries. We have had. in our history. immigration from all the countries of the world. a splendid immigration. Take the immigration from Germany. for example. Who wants to say a word against the immigration from that country? But they came within a certain period. largely from 1850 to 1870. The immigration from southern Europe came. as I told you before. in the last three or four decades. Now. if you had accepted the 1920 census. you would have found more immigrants from Italy than from Great Britain. Scotland. and North Ireland. That is the real reason. The policy of the Congress was to restrict immigration from southern Europe. Now. they say in opposition to the nationalorigins proposition and in justification of this resolution that this provision ought to be postponed again. Why?
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