If it is a question of letting iii more people from Sweden. Denmark. and the other countries the Senator has mentioned. I very cheerfully recognize the superior characteristics and character of those immigrants. and I mean that. If we have to defend our immigration law by a comparison of the number of people who come to us from certain nations. then the immigration act stands upon a very weak foundation. While the Senator from Iowa is entirely correct in saying that the arguments recalled by him were urged on the floor of the Senate. they were not the arguments which appealed to all of us. When we passed the 1924 immigration act I did not raise the question whether the national origins or 2 per cent upon the 1890 census would bring in more or less Immigrants. Nor did I raise the question as to whether the immigration would come from northern Europe or from southern Europe. As long as the immigration act rests upon the question of what part of Europe gets the advantage under the act. there is an insecure foundation for the immigration law.
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Immigrants from Sweden and Denmark have superior characteristics and character.