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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?