IMMIGRATION STUDY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19478, 23 December 1925, Page 6

IMMIGRATION STUDY

(To the Editor.) Hi;-.-—ln discussing the wisdom of restricting immigration to Nordics, thus avoiding other races like Alpines and Mediterranean, who can not amalgamate with your Dominion’s citizenry, one sometimes hears the objection, "But our Dominion is a sparsely settled country and must fill up so as to gain man-power for military m'i'ds.”

[Tn this connection your readers may be I interested in the following: "Under | date of June 16, 1924, the News Bulletin of the National Bureau of Econo- | mie Research announces the estimated i population of the United States on I January 1. 1924, to be 112,826.000—an : increase of 1,943,000 for the year. The [ actual census count for January 1, 1920, was 105,711,000.” Thus you will see [that, under our present very severe rej striction, which practically bars all cx- [ <-ept immigrants from the lands such as England, Scotland, Holland. Scandinavia, whence came our original settlers. we still keep up our increase. . Anyone interested herein might, care to send eleven cents to the Common- ; wealth Club (address San Francisco, , California) for the Walcott Immigration Restriction Report. This proves [ that, had the United States never adi mited a single immigrant, of other than i Nordic stock, we would have had the [same population, that we have to-day. [ And’ we would have avoided the interracial strife that constitutes the tragedy of America. Our organisation feels that here your problem is our problem. It is a problem not of America alone, but of the four great Nordic nations that face the Pacific Ocean— Australia, Canada, New Zealand and ourselves. There is little danger that we will not be awake to Orientals, There is much danger that we will be asleep to that more subtle menace—immigration from non-Nordic Europe.— I am, etc. O. AF. GOETHE, President. Immigration Study Commission of America. ' Sacramento, California, December 1. 1925.