The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-14
TUESDAY, DECEMBER IA, 1920.
Pick Out Our Immigrants.

Senator DILLINGHAM; Of Vermont
talks sense when instead Of prohibit
ton of immigration he proposes re-
striction and selection. Under his
plan, which Is In effect a very neat
arrangement Of pick and choose on u
percentage basis Of our previous i'm
migration, we could receive in the
next year some $4,000 incomers from
Scandinavian countries and we
should make good and necessary use
of all of them. We could receive
from the United Kingdom some 10,
900. and of them too we should make
good and necessary use. We could
receive some 125,000 from Germany,
another 10000 from France. Belgium,
the Netherlands and Switzerland; and
of these we should also make good
and necessary use. We could receive
from what once was Austria Hungary
some $1,000. and Of these. properly Sc
lected, we should make good and nee
essary use. We could receive from
Italy $1,000.
But Senator DILLINGHAM; percent
age basis would not allow more than
$4,000 to CONE here from Russia, and
that number would be q large suffi-
cheney, although in the four years pre-
vious to the war the average immigra-
tion from Russia was some 211 900 per
annum. Senator DILLINGHAM; plan
would hold Bulgaria, Serbia, Monte
negro and Rumania down to about
1000 1t would hold Turkey in Eu-
rope and Turkey in Asia down to
some 400. Not counting old Austria
Hungary and Italy. it would hold all
southern and eastern Europe down
TO 100000 in round numbers.
This however. good as ii is. is not
going far enough. When there has
been restriction Of numbers from what
over part of Europe. those permitted
To- come in should be carefully. jeal-
ously. picked as to where they were
willing to 90 when they got here
what they could do and how they
would do it. Those wanting to come
here to till our farms. to dig our
mines. to work on the roadbeds of our
railways, To excavate ground for our
homes and industrial buildings, should
go at the head of the list. Those
wanting to flock into our swea tshOps,
wheel pushcarts and pack the already
congested quarters Of our big cities
should be turned down And they
should not he rejected at our own
gates; they should bc rejected in their
own lands. with the wide Atlantic
still between US
Canlda accepts her immigrants NOT
ON the basis of those that want Can
ada 'at on the basis of those that
are wanted by Canada. So can we
Canada separates the desirable from
the undesirable on the other side Of
the ocean. not on this side. SO can
We Canada reaches an understand
ing with the foreigners in their own
and what they arc to DO when they
reach their now homes. and then Cam
ada secs that they 90 there and get
the chance 10 do il. SO can we.
We never needed more than we
need now and shall need in the next
year or two Of rebuilding and up
building stout backs willing to bend
TO fundamental labor. We cannot
get them from our own people. We
never have been able to get them
from our own people. We must get
them from abroad. Not TO insist
upon that kind of immigration as
the sum total of virtually all we ret
IN would be folly. But not 10 let such
immigrants in when we need them
and need them sorely--not To distln-
guish between the good aud the bad
the beneficial and the harmful. the
necessary and the useless would be
nviug In the face Of Providence