42 WESTERN HEMISPHERE IMMIGRATION

Mr. Scanriper. Would you be in favor, for instance, if the New
England manufacturers made a similar claim, wanting a million or
two million of southern Europeans, would you be in favor of their
having them under the immigration act?
Mr. Yarms. I believe the situation is a little bit different, sir,
but if it was a matter of life and death to that country, as I believe
it is to ours, I would say give it to them. I do not believe that any
one community should be permitted to perish. For instance, I
would not say to those who live in the flood areas in the Mississippi
Valley, “Move out of there.”
Mr. ScuneipER. I am trying to make a similar illustration to
yours. Would you then be in favor of the importation of a million
Filipinos into the Northwest, in case the industries up there demanded
to have them in order to live there?
Mr. Yates. If it was necessary to maintain them, to keep them
from dying, I would say yes. 1 do not believe that any industry
should be permitted to perish.
Mr. ScunEipER. Would you be in favor of the importation of
Chinese and Japanese in southern California in order to save industry
 there?
Mr. Yares. Well, that presents a little different situation, one
that I am not familiar with. I do not believe that any such danger
obtains from the Mexicans as would from the Chinese and Japanese.
The Crairman. Is Mexico a peaceful country?
Mr. Yates. Its history does not show it to be. They had 35 years
of peace under an iron man and when that broke up we had local
troubles down there for several years.
The CrareMaN. It has had strife of every kind among its tribes
since it was first named ‘‘ Mexico.”
Mr. Yates. So far as I know, except during what you might term
the “reign’’ of Porfirio Diaz.
Mr. ScanripEr. The people that you represent are approximately
two or three hundred thousand producers? Is that it?
Mr. Yates. Yes, sit. ‘The community as a whole is based absolutely
 upon intensive agriculture.
Mr. ScunerpEr. Can you tell the committee as to whether or not
the producers of vegetables and fruits down there, and other farm
produce, are in favor of a tariff?
Mr. Yares. Some of them are.
Mr. ScangipER. Why? » ]
Mr. Yates. I think they believe that competition from foreign
sountries will hurt them. .
Mr. ScaNeipER. Why will competition from foreign countries hurt
them?
Mr. Yarms. I take it, I am not informed sufficiently “to answer
positively, that those commodities can be raised in foreign countries,
under perhaps conditions that are more advantageous than ours.
Mr. Ramey. You spoke about advertising for laborers. Where
do they place those advertisements, in northern papers or in southern
apers?
b fir. Yates. I do not believe that I spoke of advertising. Requesting,
 I said, from the commercial secretaries of the city of
Harlinger.
Mr Ramey. Where is that?