The Holbrook news., 1922-07-14

in that year from an influx of fully 100000 immigrants at a time when we could neither assimilate nor employ them.
 Under the quota restrictions 230,537 were admitted to May 31, while about 2,7S1 were admitted temporarily for reasons of humanity and because of difficulties in getting the new law into operation, while ,446 were turned back because of exhausted quotas. Debarred for all causes in eleven months were 11,066, which I believe is the record, and is still not enough. Too many | diseased, demented and defective are being admitted.
 ''The law has been extended, and during the coming year will be rigidly enforced. I believe congress would be justified in amending the law so as to give all countries base quota of about 600, and in addition thereto not to exceed 2 per cent of the number of aliens In the United States as showr by the census of 1910. That would lessen the difficulties arising from small quotas now given to certain countries and would decrease the large quotas awarded to other countries. Would Admit Only EIigibIes. 'I believe that all quotas should con- sist only of persons eligible to citizen ship under our present naturalization laws. An amendment to that effect would end the difficulties which arise from our 'gentleman's agreement with Japan. There Is no reason why we should admit to become residents of the United States persons who never can become citizens of the United States.
 Many persons wonder why the per centage restriction law has not been | frightened up and made more binding Some ask why congress has not en- acted law completely suspending i'm migration for a period of years. Let me remind all of these questioners that it took more than twenty-five years of continuous effort to get a law even as restrictive as the three per cent act.
 "Each and every bill designed really to restrict immigration passed by sen ate and house from the first days of the administration of Grover Cleveland to the last days of Woodrow Wilson was vetoed for some reason or other usually because the proposed law in- | terfered with that nonsenSical notion that the United States was always to | be the asylum for the oppressed of the world.
 Law Came Just in Time. "The three per cent act ended the asylum idea just in time to prevent the United States from becoming the almshouse of the world (run by it's inmates) and desire to give full cred 1t to the members of the house immi- grafton committed of which I have the honor to be chairman, for sticking to the idea of restriction, and for forcing | forward a bill which refused to die until it was superseded by the Dilling- ham act, which both houses passed and which President Harding signed.
 ''I hold the firm belief that the Unit ed States will never go back to any l SNbtlhC VIII htiNOihC liC counted millions of the four corners of the world to our young, new coun- try, in which, with its billions of acres of land and resources yet untouched. fathers and mothers are even now ly- ing awake nights wondering what is to become of their children"
 Under the Dillingham; acts the gates of the United States are now closed and have been closed for several months to the following countries: All African lands, Atlantic islands, Aus tralia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Greece, Hun gary, Italy, Jugo-Slavia, LuXemburg, other Asia, other Europe, Palestine, Poland. New Zealand Rumanis, Switz- erland. Syria, Turkey and the Smyrna district.