They picked up all of these folk that lived out in little disintegrated communities everywhere in the West. the South. and Northwest. and flung them into one center. which became the beehives known as the "modern cities." Mr. Chairman. it is a long cry from George Washington to Franklin Delano Roosevelt and from a population of 3.900.000 people to a populaion of 126.000.000. Perhaps for purposes of clarifying some of the issues and some of the controversies that arise in connection with problems of immigration and naturalization at the present time. it is necessary to examine some of these fundamental forces in order to get this picture squarely in mind. I would say first of all that the largest factor in the population of this country was the excess of births over deaths. In 1916. if I remember correctly. the excess was approximately 315.000.
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