Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-01-12
10, 1920
THE IMMIGRATION PROBLEM.

Sir George Paish, eminent London
financial authority, says that the
United States can support five times
its present population, and by the use
of inventions and devices, do it even
better than now. Sir George accord
ingly foresees the many millions who
must soon depart from Europe, from
the highly developed civilizations like
England and Germany, rather than
from the lower ones, converging upon
the United States.
He rejoices at the prospect. AS an
economist he perceives the relief of
Europe and the immense advantage
of America. Our economy, he believes,
can absorb and utilize all that i'm
mense reinforcement of man-power
which will make us stupendously pro-
ductiye and provide literally hundreds
of millions with a better life than ever
has been offered in human history.
On the contrary, Frank A. Wander
lip, who knew that the United States
would restrict immigration to a mini
mum, predicted on his return from
Europe last spring that the tide of
emigration would set toward the Lat
in-American countries, and the actual
facts are bearing out Mr.. Vanderlip's
prophecy.
The Journal published yesterday
morning an Associated Press dispatch
in which it was state on the author
fly of an inter-racial commission,
headed by Gen. Coleman Dupont that
is gathering statistics on the subject,
that about two million laborers of for
cign birth have left the United States
since the signing of the armistice and
that fully two millions more will leave
as rapidly as transportation can be
secured
Other dispatches tell us that about
one thousand Germans have been
filtering out of that country dali
~, all of them, headed for Latin
America. It is also estimated that
fully six millions of tn population of
the British Isles will leave there, as
soon as transportation can he had. the
enormous exodus being necessary be-
fore that country can become self-sus-
tanning.
Sir George Paish agrees with Mr..
Nanderlip as to the figures from the
British Isles but he estimates that
more than twenty million people will
leave Germany as fast as it is posi-
bic for them to get away
In considering emigration. Sir
George and Mr.. Vanderlip both have
the economic vision. The factors
which they consider are economic
ones. One sees the United states as
the Mecca of the emigrant. The other
says that it is Latin-America where
he predicts greater development than
occurred in this country west of the
Mississippi following the civil war.
But assuming that foreigners would
prefer to come here and that our laws
would permit them to come car we
afford 20 receive twenty million for
eigners during the next ten years?
Would it be safe to thus augment Our
present foreign population?
II we want an America that speaks
the English language, that cherishes
the ideals, traditions and institutions
of the founders of this republic, that
can continue in self-government, we
should be rash indeed to take the risk.
There is osmethinG besides five
hundred million of population to be
considered. China has four hundred
millions and India three hundred mil
lions of people. There is something
better than enormous productivity
Germany, "the nation of house serv-
ANTS" as Bismarck styled it, had that
lrcfore the war. A huge polyglot mass
here would certainly be incapable OF
self-government and might degener-
ate into anarchy very quickly