16 NATIONAL ORIGINS PROVISION OF IMMIGRATION LAW
Mr. Trevor. I also just received a letter this morning from the
veneral manager of the New York Board of Trade, 41 Park Road,
New York City, which says [reading]:
NEw York Boarp oF TRADE (INnc.),
New York City, February 5, 1929.
Mr. JouN B. TREVOR,
"Hotel Carlton, Washington, D. C.
DEAR SIR: At a meeting of the executive committee of the New York Board
of Trade held to-day I was instructed to inform you that the board of trade
reaffirmed its position in favor of the national-origins provisions of the immi-
gration law.
Very truly vours,
M.D. GrirriTH, General Manager.
I would like to submit that, if I may, for the record.
I also represent the American Defense Society, the Government
Club of New York, the Americanization committee of the Veterans of
Foreign Wars of the United States, the Massachusetts Public Inter-
ests League, the Industrial Defense Society of Boston, Chapter 68
of the Sojourners of New York, the New York Chapter of the United
Daughters of the Confederacy, the National Society of Patriotic
Women, and the Daughters of Colonial Wars.
I also have received a letter this morning, but I have mislaid it for
the moment; if you will permit me later to submit it to the stenog-
rapher ?
The CraamrmaN. Very well.
Mr. Trevor. This is from another important organization in Bos-
ton, which has asked me to represent it here at this meeting.
The CratemaN. When you find it, you may insert it in the record.
Mr. Trevor. I would like to confine myself strictly to the merits
of this proposition, Mr. Chairman, as I think it is unfortunate that
anything should be added to create racial disharmony in our country.
Tt has already been said to you that efforts have been made by cer-
tain organizations to mislead the public in general and gentlemen in
public life upon the fundamental proposition of this national-origins
provision.
Perhaps you are aware that I am somewhat familiar with it, be-
cause of the fact that a great many of the statistics originally before
Congress and published in the Congressional Record were compiled
by me; and I would like to say in connection with those figures that
they were submitted before my studies on the question had been com-
pleted and I had not yet reached a definite conclusion, although I
had proceeded far enough to believe that the only fair method of
apportioning immigration into the United States was on the basis of
all the people and not an arbitrary census basis, which inevitably
discriminates in behalf of certain races and discriminates adversely
against other races.
Tt does not seem to me, and I know that the members of the organi-
zations that I represent feel that it is not consonant with our democ-
racy, that an pnsnaraTy of race should be declared by law simply
because it so happens that more of some element happens to be in
the United States at any given census—and it makes no. difference
whether that census was 1890 or 1790. The organizations 1 repre-
sent believe that the man who arrived after 1890 is just as much
entitled to representation in the apportionment of the quota as the
