President. I have made considerable reference to the makeup of our population back in 1790 and back in the Revolutionary War period. I have also made reference to the part which the population statistics of 1790 are playing in the laying of the basis for immigration purposes under the nationalorigins clause. An extensive basis in the building of the nationaloriglns quotas is the 1790 census. that being the first census taken in the history of our country. a census involving only the enumeration of names and numbers. From this census of names and numbers the Census Bureau some years ago compiled a volume known as A Century of Population Growth. This volume also has played a very important part in the considerations of the experts who have estimated the quotas to which each country is entiltled niiler the nationalorigins clause of the immigration act of 1924. According to this volume. A Century of Population Growth. the total white population of 1790 in the United States is divided as follows: Population Per cent English ----------------------------------- 2. 345. 844 83.5 Scotch ------------------------------------- 88.589 6. 7 German -------------------------------------- 156. 457 5.6 Dutch ---------------------------------------56. 623 2. 0 Irish ----------------------- ------------------ 44.273 1.6 French --------------------------------------13. 384 .5 Hebrew and all others ------------------- ------ 5.078 .1 Total -------------------------------2. 810. 248 100. 0 These figures when carried out in division of the German andt Irish totals therein shown demonstrate beyond a shadow of doubt the inaccuracy and unfairness of the conclusions reached in this volume.
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