The Denver Jewish news., 1922-10-11
BY GERsHoN AGRoNsKY

copyright. 1872, by Jewish Correspondence
Bureau.b
Chairman Johnson of the Immigra-
ton committee of the House of Rep
resentatives l.; Il confirmed restric-
tionist He Knows, it and lets every
body else know it. Just before Con-
gress adjourned. this res s.rictioni>t par
excellence, who insists he is not II to-
| tai exclusionist. read into the Record
IA brief for further limiting immigrn-
tion by reducing the present three per-
cent. quota to two or one and Il half
percent. His other proposals are in
teresting. hut not relevan.. So are his
reasons for proposing further restric-
ton.
From the one proposal that the
quota he further reduced. it might
he presumed that the operation of the
present IaV had brought number of
Immigrants exhansting the or in ex-
cess of. the quo.a But nothing of the
sort has happened. as a clancy at the
| immigration figures will show.
Under the law 49,. .S25 immigrant
aliens were admissible during the first
fiscal year but only :O7 .:jJ6 entered the
couni ry''-said n recent statement 10y
the Nntio lal Industrial Conference
Board. The numbers entering from
Austria. Denmark. Germany. Russia.
etc. fell far short of the quotas ad-
missible. For the coming fiscal
I.., .,1r oil l.upt IL
is likely that. as in the previous Year,
this quota will not bc filed An
analysis OF more recent figures, cover
ing the period from September I. re
veal the startling truth that the Sep
teinber quota fed Poland Is only fifty
percent. exhausted. and only about
thirty-thrcc percelt for l.ussia-the
iva. countries that are so disturbing to
Chairman Jolnson's peace of mind.
No amount of congressional hair
striction should he contemplated if the
number of immigrants admitted fails
far short of the number admissible.
Further restriction having been
shown to he unnecessary. it may he
asked how successful the present law
| has been. In asking this question. one
should avoid the glances of the great
throng of immigrants and woulh-bc
immigrants-those "aliens" on Ellis
Island whom former Immigration Com
eyes fixed upon the denk of the inspec
tor rs though ii were some holy shrine
of de'iverancc" Sound and solid
Americans. whose interest in the i'm
migrant is as far removed from hu
manarian as possible. keep repeating
in the language of the National In
dustrial Conference Board.
Since the normal increase of ma
tive population would make available
for manufacturing industries only
of our labor supply from foreign
sources and the exodus of american
wage earlcrs which left us with n de
ficit of 30SSS skilled and miscellnnc-
Gus workers as Il result of the first
fiscal year of the restriction laws op-
GRAFTON. may prove 10 ne scriottS Ill
their effects upon American industry
And recent reports in leading met
ropolitan dailies attributed the sh"r,-
,ce of labor in the copper mines to re
strictcd Immigration. One reason for
the shortage in this department OF
mine work is the restriction on imni-
gration-said T. \. Richard. writ
ing in the current Issue of the Econo-
mic and Mining Journal l'ress.
The same complaint tempered wi Ii
some human feeling. is voiced by 1t
Hearst paper:
sRcfcrc the war we used t. have
from 1.DO0,O0O to l iCo.n0o new i'm
migrants every year Each year NUM-
hers Of recent arrivals left us again.
but the net increase in our popula ion
was below 900. 600 per year.
No one can measure what they add
ed to our wealth in terms of pro,lur-
tion and thrift No one can mca
what they gained in happiness and or
portunty by coming to lis.
Under the present restrictive I'M
migration laws the new immigration
will lie found not 10 exceed 10 noa
when we have the final figures for the
year ending June 30 The next in
crease in population will not be over