The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1923-10-31
Menace Of Modern Immigration
By DR.. H. w. Evans, Imperial Wizard
ess Delivered October 9th Day Fair Dallas

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ferior, as shall show by indisputable
facts and figures. But it is not yet
too late to take constructive steps to
prevent this melting pot from becom-
ing cauldron of chaos and disaster
for the nation.
Within the year Congress, will en-
act a new immigration law. The
present statute expires by limitation
on the first of next July. I propose,
therefore, that we now, take stock of
the national situation with respect to
this all-important matter of he COM
position of our people and determine,
as God intends we shall in all funda-
mental difficulties, what permanent
policy will best promote our own civil
ization and that of the world.
In the consideration of subject
so interviewer with our destiny, we
should know exactly every vital fact
and influence bearing upon it. I have
undertaken, humbly and without bias
of any kind, to make such compre-
hensive study of our, immigration
problem. It involved statistics from a
thousand original sources, figures al
ways complex and often contradictory.
It meant much new information con-
corning our history and that of the
world. There had to be an up-to-date
appraisal of all our assets and iabil-
tiles in human form. It was quite i'm
possible to comprehend our past,
present and future situation without
applying to our population all the es-
tablished truth with respect to an
thropology. A failure to take into
account family strains, racial char
acteristics and cultures would have
been fatal to correct conclusion. Eu-
genics entered into it, not here and
there, but everywhere, because the
final Americanization Of this country
will be accomplished only through in
termarriage, and we must understand
fully the extent to which mixed par
entage is possible and how it con-
tributes to good or bad results. From
beginning to end, this survey involv-
ed government and politics and eco
Monies and religion. Social values,
not those associated with the four
hundred, but the social values that
concern the hundred millions, had to
be analysed and catalogued as whole
some or detrimental to democracy.
Figuratively had to enter thousands
and thousands of homes and then in
terpret each and every discovery in
terms of national advancement or re-
PROGRESSION. In short, this subject
takes in everything. It means every
thing to America.
Racial, National and Social Values
In 1920, when the last census was
taken, this country had a combined
population of 105,710,620. We must
have standards by which to Judge
every element of our humanity, but
first let me give you a birds eye pic
ture of the American people, reduced
to racial, national and social values.
Those in the United States
who were born abroad
number .................1 3,712,745
Those born here of foreign
parentage include ....... IL, 1914, 539
Those born here of mixed
alien and native stock
number $780,, 6es
A total of first and second
generation white foreign
ers reaching ............ sc, 398, 1858
The negro race has grown
TO IL, 400, l01
Indians, Orientals and Asia
tics number ............. 426,574
We had, then, in 1920, alien
and colored peoples aggre-
eating ................. .47,2ss, 1868
At the sames time the ma
tive white Americans or
original stock, including
many descended directly
and not very Instantly
from immigrants number
ed .................. 81, All 1857
Viewed strictly in terms or racial
and national origin, the present popu-
lation of the United States is much
less than half, perhaps little more
than a third, of native Anglo-Saxon
stock.
Could we stop with that comparison,
serious as it is by reason of recent
changes in the character of our immi-
grafton, the situation would not be so
alarming, but there are several other
substantial subtractions to be made
before arriving at the net worth Of
the American people. Not pausing at
this point to present details, we have
in this country today
Illiterates to the almost I'M
believable number of 49,. 1881 ,so5
Mentally and physically dis
eased persons totalling
more than .............. 100000
Paupers and dependents, at
least ........... ........ 100000
Criminals, in institutions,