Principes d'économie politique

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Identifikator:: 1737995603

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-113493

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Author:: Gide, Charles http://d-nb.info/gnd/117543985

Title:: Principes d'économie politique

Edition:: 25 éd.

Place of publication:: Paris

Publisher:: Sirey

Year of publication:: 1926

Scope:: IV, 702 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2020

Collection:: Economics Books

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140 NATIONAL ORIGINS PROVISION OF IMMIGRATION LAW that from his general testimony, and I do not want any inference to be drawn from my last remark. There are no personalities at all, and, as I say, I disassociate it and do not want that inference to be rawn. The Carman. Was he questioning the authority at that time? Representative McCormack. Apparently. Senator Reep. He was talking about this as true? Representative McCormack. Yes; he was advancing this. The Cramman. Pardon the interruption. I was curious about the authority, that is all. Representative McCormack. There [indicating] is one of the most interesting books. I have given it considerable study. I happened to run across this in the Congressional Library. It it entitled © His- torical Aspects of the Immigration Problem,” by Abbott. Probably some of you gentlemen are familiar with it. It is written by Edith Abbott, dean of the graduate school of social service administration and professor of social economy in the University of Chicago, and apparently that was written long before this question became so controversial. But, in any event, it is not her personal views, it is an accumulation by.her of views of eminent men in the past gen- erations, both in Europe and America on this question, and it gives one an excellent fundamental knowledge of the reasons, causes, and effects of immigration; and the interesting thing is that most of the immigrants were sought, as you know, for many reasons, in America. There is one interesting article here relating to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, which shows that in 1860 it was felt by one of the eminent writers there that the immigrant stock, so-called, as would be termed under this division for descriptive purposes of 1790—that immigrant stock and native stock came from 1790—that the immi- grant stock outnumbered the native stock. Doctor Hill had a tre- mendous job, and his whole report indicated the uncertainty of his basis of determination, but it was the result of a desire to try to carry out what he thought at least was the intent of Congress. But in this it shows that in Massachusetts it was felt then that those of foreign extraction exceeded those of native stock as early as 1860. That is very significant as bearing on the 1790 proposition apon which Doctor Hill and his associates worked, which resulted in approximately 41,000,000 being their determination in 1920. The whole thing, Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, seems to revolve in the main around the uncertainty of the 1790 basis of determination. We have no records prior to 1790." We have only one census of 1790, that is, names of the heads of families, and the Quota Committee considered, as I understand it—I say this reservedly, but it is my understanding that the nationality of the inhabitants were determined in accordance with the sounding of the name. Doctor Hill says that many names would indicate two or more nationalities, that they came from two or more coun- tries, and, furthermore, in a large predominant community it is only natural for one who might be born in one country to say they were born in a country that the predominating element were born in or that they are the descendants of. We have no record prior to 1790. The records that the ports of entry from 1820 on are very uncertain; in fact, the records, as 1

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