The conclusion drawn from these figures is that the immigrants were the cause of the decline of the average birthrate that occurred in the families of native stock.

The one is that all immigrants coming to our shores are net additions, hastening by so much the growth in density of population; the other opinion, the displacement theory, is that immigration has the effect of checking the natural increase of the native stock so much that it does not materially change the total population, or actually causes it to be less than it would have been had no immigration occurred. § 10.

This is partly explained by the fact that the immigrants are mostly males.

The immigrants were exiles.

For truly, the immigrants of the early 50's were the true "Conquerors of the Wilderness."

These Chinese immigrants and their descendants are the "Taiwanese," Taiwan's main population of about eight million people as of 1948.