People often change their names. The people who settled America were no exception. The census of 1790 is no sensible. scientific basis for determining immigration. and that is why the commission which was appointed to figure this out never was able to arrive at any just conclusion. While I was opposed to the 1890 basis. I claim it was much fairer. much more scientific. and much more workable than this hodgepodge. this monstrosity known as the "nationalorigins" proposition. I can understand why some people should want to perpetuate the socalled "colonial stock." even though I do not accept the principle. But in allocating immigration quotas to nationalities today it is impossible to use the census of 1790. which did not collect or publish such data. The contest between the use of -the national origins and the 1890 census is a contest between the English on the one side and the GermanicScandinavian stock on the other. I maintain you can not settle this contest by using the 1790 census.
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