AMERICAN IMMIGRATION
Sir,—Pressure by blocs of the foreign born has become powerful in America. In one presidential election, a National Committee actually issued literature to such voters, in their respective languages, that its party took both sides of a certain European question. Snofru action, was. of course, dishonest. Thwc it was deemed expedient by party leaders how those now truckle to highlyorganised hypenate blocs. 3he United States’ Immigration Quota Act should have been enacted a quarter century earlier. Your Dominion, however, still has a sufficiently strong British Nordic element to prevent any repetition of such a tragedy in your population mass. One trusts you will not accept as immigrants the Afoditerraneans and tho East Europeans we now reject as unfit for seed stock for future Americans. Immigration Study Commission. By C. M. GOETHE. Sacrament a, California, July 15. -I f
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 189, 12 August 1931, Page 6
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