Sixtysix per cent of the territory of Europe has changed. It is absurd to state that anyone can determine with any accuracy whatever how many foreigners of each nationality were here in 1890 unless the same territory were considered now as under the 1890 census. No one separate census of the foreign born of the United States is a fair cross section of our population. A census of the native and foreign born would be more accurate. The only accurate plan would be to take all the censuses of both native born and foreign born. That is what the nationalorigins plan contemplates. The following table shows how absurd it is to accept any one census for foreign born as a basis: Quotas according to different plans 1890 1920 National census census origins Germany ------------------------------------------- 51.227 20.769 25. 957 Italy ----------------------------------------------- 3.845 20.024 5.802 Belgium ------------------------------------ 512 778 1.304 England. Scotland. Wales. and North Ireland -...... 34. 007 16. 957 65. 721 Irish Free State --------------------------- 28.567 10.195 17. 853 Norway. . . . . ..---------------------------- 6.453 4.518 2.377 Sweden ---------------------------------- 9.561 7.769 3.314 Czechoslovakia ---------------------------- 3. 073 6. 205 2.874 It will be noted that if the census of 1920 had been accepted Italy would have had a much larger quota than all of England.
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