National origins provision of immigration law

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Identifikator:: 1796380105

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-196168

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: National origins provision of immigration law

Place of publication:: Washington

Publisher:: Gov. Pr. Off.

Year of publication:: 1929

Scope:: III, 171 S

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Statement of Edward R. lewis, chairman executive committee, Immigration Restriction Legislation, Chicago, Ill.

Collection:: Economics Books

NATIONAL ORIGINS PROVISION OF IMMIGRATION IAW 101 To the same effect is an almost unanimous press of the country. Senator Reep. Mr. Mowitz, would you permit me to interrupt you by quoting from a speech of Commissioner Carran delivered on March 25, 1924¢ . Mr. Mowrrz. Yes, sir. Senator Reep. He said: For my own part, I do not seen why, whatever year we use, 1910 or 1890, we should measure the immigrants wholly by the foreign born in America. Why not pay some attention to the American born in America? Have you who are American born no say in this thing? Must we always measure the future of our own country by the numbers of foreigners who are here? Is it true that the United States is already a collection of foreign colonies rather than a Nation 3f native Americans? He said that in his speech to the Economic Club at.the Hotel Astor on March 25, 1924, Mr. Mowrrz. I think he is right, to this extent, that if you want to restrict immigration entirely. It is not for us to say that you should not do it. But if you are going to have immigration—and this is the whole burden of my argument—if you are going to admit foreigners, then we are proud enough of the XA and reputation of the German race in the building up of this country that we would resent by petition, of course, any implication by discrimination or givin ganas in figures which will take away any part of that repu- tation, Senator Ree. I think you would be right in so doing. Mr. Mowrrz. Yes. Senator Reep. Mr. Mowitz, you are familiar with Doctor Faust’s treatise, The German Element in the United States. Mr. Mowrrz. Yes; I know of it. Senator Reep. You are familiar with the statement that he makes that, including all the Germans born in Holland, and Sweden, and Switzerland, and Austria, and other countries than Germany—in- cluding all those, the German element amounts to about 17 per cent of our population. Now, if that is the utmost that the Germans claim, can we justify giving Germans 81 per cent of the quotas. as we do now? Mr. Mowrrz. Well, Senator, unfortunately, you are quoting as an authority a man who has written a book as a result of a contest and who has no more authority than I might have to stand here and speak as authority for the German-born people in United States, which I can not. I have not subscribed to that book. I have not subscribed to that statement. As a matter of fact, he can not prove it or disprove it, and that is just the trouble with the national origins proposition. Senator Reep. The book was published under the auspices of the German consul general in Chicago. Mr. Mowrrz. That does not affect it. We have nothing to do with the German Government, and whatever they do is not controlling for as. We would no more feel obliged to recognize that as an authority than any other work of that character, unless it was based on actual figures, or that you could from authoritatave sources check back and show that the author was right. Senator Reep. But you do not think the German element is half of the English. Scotch. Welsh. and Ulster element in the TTnited States?

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