WESTERN HEMISPHERE IMMIGRATION

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1930

House or REPRESENTATIVES,
CoMMITTEE ON IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION,
Washington, D. C.
The committee met in the committee room, No. 483, House Office
Building, at 10.30 o’clock a. m.. Hon. Albert Johnson (chairman)
presiding.
STATEMENT OF HON. JOHN N. GARNER, A REPRESENTATIVE IN
CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF TEXAS (Resumed)

Mr. Garner. Mr. Chairman, may I have a minute, please?
The CmairMAN. Yes.
Mr. Garner. I ask permission to insert in the record a statement
of one of the most patriotic orders there is in the country. It has for
its purpose, touching the people of Mexican descent, from the beginning
 of the Constitution formed by our Government, and I think it
would be most interesting for the members of the committee as well
as others; and I present this letter as well as the reply to it.
The CaamrmaN. We will be very glad to have it.
Mr. Garner. Thank you.
‘The papers referred to are here printed in full, as follows:)
QroraMENTO. CALIF... January 16, 1930.

Hon. Joux N. GARNER,
House of Representatives, Washington, D. C.
My Dear CoNGrESSMAN GARNER: Anonymous threatening letters mail this
commission because it advocates a quota law against Mexico have, until now,
sravitated to the wastebasket. One now comes, however, with a collection of
newspaper clippings that help one to understand the mentality of the Amerind
(American-Indian) peon, of his hopes of gaining for his children the precious
genes of Nordies, that the latter may become mestizo.
One clipping pictures a Negro and American, another a Korean and American
marriage. The bride in every case is a white girl. This threatening letter
includes a boast that the hybrid children of such marriages will constitute the
American citizenry of the to-morrows. Is this perhaps nearly true? Does our
Failure to restrict Mexican immigration spell the downfall of our Republic, with
all its hopes of betterment for all humanity? Athens could not maintain the
brilliancy of the Golden Age of Pericles when hybridization of her citizenry
began. Rome fell when the old patrician families lost their race consciousness
and interbred with servile stocks.
Ought not legislation be hastened to place Latin America, itself already
pathetically hybridized, under the same quota we maintain against Europe?
Very earnestly,

IMmMiGrATION STUDY COMMISSION,
By C. M. GorruE, President.
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