W. W. Husband, Commissioner General of Immigration, in a speech in Manhattan, declared that "we are now receiving a better class of immigrants as a whole than we have done in 35 years."
The meaning of his statement is that the bulk of our immigration is now coming from the countries of northern and western Europe. It appears that nearly every nation will fill its quota of immigrants before June 30, or that out of a total of 358,000 immigrants allowed by law, approximately 200,000 will come from northern and western Europe. Of...
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