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Mr. GisoN. There are a number of small projects all along the
Mexican border?
Mr. Winey. Yes. The Government has just built the San Carols
project down there, comprising some 80,000 to 100,000 acres, and
that is complicating our situation, because they are simply going to
use the same kind of labor we are, and at the same time we are.
I would like to point out this, too, that when our development
is stopped, it would have an effect on the eastern manufacturers,
because we are heavy purchasers of manufactured goods, and when
our farmers can not harvest their crops, they can not buy machinery.
[ think that in this agricultural depression about the only way the
farmer has had of adjusting himself is that instead of his wife getting
a new sewing machine she has had to use the old one.
The CuarrMAN. Do Mexican wives buy many sewing machines?
Mr. Wey. I could not give you the number, but I happen to
know that there are several that have them. Most of our Mexican
farm laborers out there have their own automobiles. If you could
drive up now to a big cotton field and see the cars that are parked
around it, it would look to you as if there was a picnic going on.
The CHAIRMAN. So that as the country grows great, and more
Mexicanized down there, they will grade up better, and take the
place of the white farmers, and the country will be O. K?
Mr. WiLey. We have had them there, as I say, ever since the
country was settled.
The Cramman. They have not had much chance to edge in on
the owner?
Mr. WiLey. How is that?
The CuareMaN. They have not had much chance to edge in and
take the place of the owner of the land?
Mr. WiLey. They have the chance, I suppose; but I do not know
of any of them that are doing it.
I will not take but just a very few minutes more. I wanted to
mention this fact, Mr. Chairman. You have made several insinuations,
 here, or at least you have made some very frank remarks,
about lowering the citizenship in that country, and I can not help
but resent that a little bit. I live out in the country there, and I
challenge any body to show me a place in the United States that has
a higher type of citizenship than we have there. We have had
Mexicans with us ever since our State has been settled. In fact,
they were there when we came.
The Cuammman. And they are citizens, a lot of them?
Mr. Winey. Quite a few of them are citizens.
The CHAIRMAN. Is it possible for you to tell an American citizen
of Mexican ancestry from a Mexican that has arrived in the last six
or seven years?
Mr. WiLey. I do not think I could.
The Cuatrman. They all look alike?
Mr. WiLey. There are different looking Mexicans, whether they
have been here 40 years or four days.
The CuatrMaN. I do not mean to cast any reflection on the Mexican
people. I understand that every person is entitled to the benefits of
the Constitution; but I can not get it into my head that these wages
are commensurate with the American standard of living.