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Author : Cohen George
Title : The Jews in the making of America
Year : 1924

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THE RACIAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE UNITED STATES. By Enw. F. McSwEENEY, LL. D. ln a general way, the Racial Contribution Series in the Knights of Columbus historical program is intended as a much needed and important contribution to national solidarity. The various studies are treated by able writers, citizens of the United States, each being in full sympathy with the achievements in this country of the racial group of whom he treats. The standard of the writers is the only one that will justify historical writing; -the tru th. No censorship has been exercised. No subject now actively before the people of the United States has been more written on, and less understood, than alien immigration. Until 1819, there were no official statistics of immigration of any sort; the so-called census of 1790 was simply a report of the several states of their male white population under and over 16 years of age, all white females, slaves, and ethers. Statements as to the country of origin of the inhabitants of this country were, in the main, guesswork, with the result that, while the great bulk of such estimates was honestly and patriotically done, sorne of the most quoted during the present day were inspired, obviously ta prove a predetermined case, rather than to recite the ascertained fact. ...