National origins provision of immigration law

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Identifikator:: 1796380105

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

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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 Dr. Herbert Friedenwald, Washington, D.C.

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NATIONAL ORIGINS PROVISION OF IMMIGRATION LAW 65 Senator Rem. Do you think there is a larger proportion in the American Nation as it stands at the present time derived from Ger- man sources than British? Doctor Friepenwarp. I have not the slightest idea, and I do think it amounts to a hill of beans as to whether it is or not. It is a question whether the people we admit to this country are fit to be- come good American citizens, just as Franklin, Wilson, and Jefter- son asked those men in Revolutionary times to come and offered them land to settle in this country for good and sufficient reasons. Senator Reep. Do you think it Tight that by a system of numerical limitations we should permit many less British citizens to come to this country than Germans? Doctor FRIEDENWALD. Senator, I can not answer that directly; I have lived in a good many parts of the world. From the time I was a youngster just out of college, I lived for a considerable period of time in the Near East. I spent a year or more abroad and I traveled over Europe, and I have made numerous trips to Europe from year to year, and I have always enjoyed associating not with the people of the higher classes of society, but the common man; and it has been my experience wherever I have gone that the ordinary laboring man is a sweet, lovely and, in the main, fine, direct, God-fearing, good man and woman, very much the same kind wherever you go; and it does not make any difference whether he is Slav, German, Frenchman, Spaniard, or Italian, that is my personal viewpoint. Senator Reep. Or Englishman? ) Doctor Friepexwarp. Or Englishman; certainly. Senator Reep. Do you think there is any justice in limiting the Englishman more strictly than we limit the Germans? Is it just to allow a larger number of (ermans than of English, Dutch, and Welsh to come? Doctor FriepenwarLp. Senator, I do not know how to answer that question. I have just answered to the best of my ability that I did not see how any whole-hearted man or woman who had the pioneer spirit, who was willing to cut himself off from all his home sur- roundings, to come to a strange country, whose language he does not know——— Senator Rexp. If he is English, he knows it. Doctor Friepenwarp. If he is English he knows it, yes; but he is the only one. The Englishman is no better than anvone elce. from my point of view. Senator Reep. He is just as good, is he not? Doctor FriepEnwarp. He is just as good. Senator Rep. Doctor, has it ever been called to your attention that an Englishman, under the 1890 basis, the temporary quotas, has just one-tenth the chance to get into America that an Trishman hag? Doctor FriepENwALDp. It has not. Senator Reep. Well, the fact is, that about 1 per cent of the popu- lation of Ireland Free State that come to the United States each year under the annual quota now allowed came temporarily, while only one-tenth of 1 per cent of the population of England can come. Is that just? Doctor FrirpenwaLp, Why you participated in the- enactment of the Jaw; I can not imagine that you would stand sponsor for a law acainst the English in favor of the Irish or—-o

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