BRITISH STOCK

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 145, 16 December 1924, Page 5

BRITISH STOCK

AMERICA'S FOUNDATION

NEW IMMIGRATION PROPOSALS

COMPARISON WITH EMPIRE'S OPPORTUNITIES.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPTRISHT.)

(SYDNEY SDN CABIE.)

(Received 16th December, 10 a.m!) .'.LONDON, 15th December.

"The Observer" says that the United States, realising the. danger of dilution of the original British stocli by the large volume of unassailable alien strains, is u'ow aiming at the perpetuation of British racial control. The Cabinet is preparing a scheme, to come into operation in 1927, to limit immigrants annually to 150,000, based on the numbers of the European races constitiatihg the ■American population according' to the Census the .American'population to the Census ot 1920. The result will enable Britain to supply 91,000 -immigrants a .year including 8000 from the Irish Free State, and will also -allow a further steady inflow :ol British from Canada, from which 200,000 immigrants came in 1923. '-. 'The Observer" "points < cm't that the United -States offers young Britons better prospects than Britain or the Dominions;- . The Empire is- unable to afford to. lose such a large contingent of youths, whom it has educated and trained. If the British Commonwealth's political.and pconomic life is effectively organised, it ought to be able to oft'er ;o'pportmuties equal to those in the United States.