Show OPENING THE FLOODGATES FLOOD FLOODGATES FLOODGATES GATES TO ALIENS lENS In three months the law restrIct restrIct- ing eg Immigration to three per cent cento ot of the Immigration ot the past will wi cease e to exist and end there will be no n restriction It ir congress tails rails to en- en enact en eE enact act new legislation According to statistics ghen git gh en o ob out b the tho department ot of o labor In La 1921 1 nearl a mimon million foreigners entered the United States Stales It If the present presen law w Is allowed to lapse lapee It Is 13 pos Ible two million aliens will cross cros crosto to tG our shores In a C ear J There are arc millions ot of unemployed In other countries eagerly seeking cekIn by b misery to get set a away from their entering America JAmes J mea J 3 Davis secretary ot of la Ia labor bor in to President Coolidge's cabinet and be belias b behas 1 is an advocate ot of exclusion has lias written an article from Ie ee Quote What a tide ot of unlimited unlimited immigration gration ration would do to American Ideas I- I Ind nd Meals Ideals customs manners gov eminent gov economics business la- la tor la-tor religion and education 1 Is tor art a matter maller ot Of o debate Whether such auch throngs could be assimilated nd Americanized or would event event- eventuallY eventually submerge and absorb the people ople as the old Roman was Vas vas once completely b hi the hordes hleb Into that fair land for tor purposes is also alsa a matter for much argument Nevertheless the tact fact remal s that the United StAtes did not assimilate or Amer Amer- Amer- Amer Americanize oi ol tile the 35 many ons millions who Vho base hae come within our ouri i s since the sear vear ear 1820 The The immigrants migrating to toI toI the United States Slates did ld not reach reaGh I in anyone any one 5 ear car until 1812 1842 when were ere ero admitted of hom hom were from Irom northern nd v stern Europe This number included 7 7 from the United I constituting 70 1 per pel cent centI d I the tho total of ot immigration for tor that eu eat ei i It IL IL as las not until 1871 that aU all th and eastern Europe together furnished as laan as Immigrants in one onevia class of Ca In 1874 1871 this new Dew immigrants numbered 2484 From Ironi 1894 to 1901 Immigration rise flaG under a sear ear but the ear 1896 Is Important In the his his- lory bis-lory lor lory of immigration because In that ear for tor or the first time south south- southern cm ern and eastern Europe furnished Immigrants than fend and western estern Europe corn com comIng cornIng Sag corn I Ing from the southern and eastern castern Lud only from northern and western sections of that continent la the tM tar ear 1901 out of ot immigrants the tho northern and west west- western em ern rn European countries supplied or per cent of ot the total rod the southern and eastern astern Euro Euro- European jean ean 91 or 73 6 per cent ot of I the total Each year sear ear from 1896 on southern and eastern Europe has hasi cent bent ent more aliens to us than north north- northern ern Orti rn and western stern Europe save BaTe in 1919 when fewer feet fe et than pea peo- peo people 1 pie le came from all aU Europe and In 1923 when the tho three per cent law was In effect In ln 1902 Immigration went above the mark and In 1907 It reached the hi highest chest point In any Year ear entering en the United States of which number ot or 76 2 per cent were from southern and eastern cattern Europe and or only per cent from northern and western Europe In the ears 1905 1906 1907 1910 1913 and 1914 immigration vas above and nd did not drop below In I rny ny Intervening year The year ear earI I 1914 saw another high water ater mark markot markI I ot of Immigration when the tho number admitted was of ot which or 76 1 per cent nt were train and eastern Europe and aud only or 13 6 per cent from and western Europe The world var v r ar reduced cration from froDI roD Europe to small Email nurn- nurn num numbers hers ben The ear ear 1917 1817 however rought in immigrants from British 1 North orth America and from Mexico Central and South America arid and tIt the tho West Indies Tile The high I h aglA Bcd ard ample or of Jort irk being an attractive stimulant during that period The Tha ear ear 1920 a I new tido of ot Immigration from Europe Th The total Immigration tion Hon that year rear reached Ith I 9 or 37 7 per ver cent ent from fromi n nd eastern Europe and aDd I I or 20 O 0 7 per cent from north north- north tr tr it and western estern Europe with coun coun- coun ol 01 North and South America furnishing nearly all the remainder The Tho ne next neat t sear icar car the year 1921 brought Immigrants Including ing lug or ar per pcr cent froni southern and eastern Europe and or 17 78 7 8 per cent from north north- northern northern em ern and western estern Europe AmerIca Ith her more than five mIllions Ut or unemployed In 1921 could not Island this oncoming flood of ot linnit- linnit i grants which could only swell the I ot unemployed BO so the three I per er cent law was passed going Into effect on June 8 3 1921 1 Secretary Davis points out that lot ot nearly white hite people of I foreign birth less than halt half are I naturalized citizens He gives gh es an anal of ot the total population I We have hao a total white shute population I lion tion ot of o 0 ot of Which are arc ot of o native born parentage Of at the remainder are or of born foreign born parentage that s Is both parents were born abroad are arc ot or mixed parentage that 1 is one parent was born abroad and are arc foreign born bom This means that we have havo who ho ho in tho past pact generation are present resent or or or have been linked with ith B a for tor- for foreign eign elga allegiance The figures are even more striking when then we con con- consider sider elder our urba urban population There native nathe born whites of are natIve parents in our cities clUes But Dut whites of ot for for- foreIgn foreign there are eign elgo stock stack in these cities cilles and ot of these the are arc foreign born 00 |