The Archive · 1924

Immigration and the Melting Pot

The question of a further. ros-friction of immigration is top lof growing importanos all over the country here, The proposed legislation redueing the quota xnd iously debated during} the present session of Congress. Ten years, ago there Were many who "openly urged an. absolutely United entry of the insane, discased, "But what a jon in a decade! The idea, as T saw it put]

or two ago, inherited from oth century, of the efficacy fof the "welling pots" still ailed 10" years ago. Looking! jack over even a short. period of me ({ quote from a long article in one of the academic magazines of the month) vit xecms strange that this fatuous ballet inthe all pervading power Democracy to sbterate race tet cid suppose that our th generation cou

enturiee of experience problem. would have militated jumbled digested racial material 'Then they learned somewhat to thet sarprito that tHe country wan Fomgee' AngloSaxon nor Protestant, nnd that in some localities there sere might not continat peaking.

The statement is then made that would be substantially as large the population of the United State

it is now if no immigrants what-fever had game in during the last hundred years, and it is equally certain that the Americans would of have despised manual labour as they do now. Only in parts of the country and in occupations chore the competition of the alton is not felt, the native American works cheerfully at. the most laborious tasks. The immigrant, it is assorted, hag thus. don Nery serious damage to Amer "by teaching our youth to despise hard manual labour." The promotion of Americans into what characterized as ''an upper ch festing upon strata of lions lower standards, hag also had the effect of reducing the native American birth-rate. This 18 undeniably true. Tt fmenon universal ye, and by no means of recent date; the upper and wealthier classes tend lower their rate of reproduction, while reckless breeding generally on among the lower classes.

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