AMERICA'S POPULATION

Evening Star, Issue 18817, 16 December 1924, Page 5

AMERICA'S POPULATION

THE RACIAL PROBLEM. BRITISH STOCK DESIRED. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, December 15. (Received December 16, at 8.50 a.m.) Tho ‘Sunday Observer’ saysi “The United States, realising the dangers of the dilution of tho original British stock by nj large vplumo of unassimilable alien strains, is now aiming at tho perpetuation of British racial control. The Cabinet is preparing a scheme, to conic into operation in 1927, limiting the immigrants annually to 150,000, based ou the numbers of tho European races constituting the American population. According to the census of 1920, tho result will enable Great Britain to supply 91,000, including 8.000 Free Staters. It will also allow a further steady inflow- of Britishers from Canada, from which dominion there wore 200.000 immigrants in 1923. The ‘ Sunday Observer ’ points out that tho United States offers young Britons better prospects than are to bo found in Great Britain or tho dominion. The Empire is unable to afford to Jose such a large contingent of youths which it has educated and trained. If the British Commonwealth political and economic life was effectively organised it ought to be able to offer opportunities equal to those in the United States.—Sydney ‘ Sun ’ Cable.