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.

Collection:: Economics Books

56 NATIONAL ORIGINS PROVISION OF IMMIGRATION LAW Senator Reep. We are looking for light. Doctor Friepexwarp. I can not give you the light as you request. 1 give you my views as I gathered them through mv life. in which 1 have been interested in large measure— — Senator Nye. You do not think we found the light in the national origins. Doctor Frioexwarp. I certainly do not think we found the light in the national origins at all. Senator Reep. In asking us to continue the temporary basis, you are asking us to continue the injustices T am speaking to you about. Doctor Frizpexwarp. These injustices have gone on for some years. I will tell you a story about Mr. Julius Rosenwald, whom we all know. Mr, Rosenwald was a member of a committee of which I was the executive officer, and we would consider all kinds of Jewish things. One day, after an all-day session considering all sorts of educational and philanthropic things, we came to an application which had been made to us to aid the Falashas of Abyssinia. The Falashas of Abyssinia are black Jews; and Mr. Louis, of Marshall, our chair- man, turned to Mr. Rosenwald and said, “Julius, why, they are black Jews. That is your interest; you are interested in the colored people all over the country. What shall we do about them?” Rosenwald put his hand in his pocket and pulled out his watch and said, “ It is almost 6 o'clock. We have been in session since 10 o’clock this morning. How long have those Ifalashes been there? »? « Oh, since about the sixth century B. C.,” answered Marshall, « If they have been there that long, they will stay there until our next meet. ing. I move we adjourn.” [Laughter.] Now, these problems are not to be settled right off the bat; you know that, Senator, perfectly well. You have got yourselves into a snarl, and you want to get out of it by tying onto it a new kind of rope—national origins. “There ain’t no such animal.” This thing has been discussed and the policy of the country seems to be to have restriction of immigration. Senator Rep. Although you personally do not believe in it? Doctor Fruevenwarp, Although I personally do not believe in it. I am probably mistaken, because I am willing to abide in the main by the will of the majority. I do not know enough about it in the present situation to say if I went into it again I would accept it or not, I only know that these gentlemen, IF ranklin, Wilson, Jefferson, and Richard Stockton, were speaking for the future, as stated in the journal I read from, you remember. They were the founders of this country, and knew what they wanted because there are no more remarkable products of the brain of men than the documents of the Revolutionary period and the constitutional period. Senator Rerp. And they were trying to encourage the settlement of the Hessians, in trying to encourage them to desert from the British army? Doctor Frrepexwarp. Yes; in war time. } Senator Rerp. And you favor the decision that gives representa- tives of those Hessians more Immigrants in the quota than these distinguished members of the constitutional convention who were discussing them ? Doctor Frrepexwarp. Senator, you are trying to pin me down to details.

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