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Mr. PeraLEes. You are absolutely correct about that. I say, so
long as you limit your issue to the economic phases of this problem,
I have nothing to say. I am an American citizen, and I am for the
American people.
Mr. Rureerrorp. Have you any reason to believe from the wording
 of this bill that there is any other purpose in view than that?
Mr. PErargs. Than the economic phase?
Mr. RuraERFORD. Yes.
Mr. PeraLEs. I have reason to believe, because of my experience
in Texas, that perhaps it may be just a desire on the part of the American
 citizens of Teutonic or northern extraction to just simply exclude
any other people who do not belong to that extraction; for instance,
the Mexicans, who descend from the two great races, the Indian and
the Spanish. That, of course, does not make them Nordic or Teutonic,
That is, the fact that they are of that extraction does not make them
Teutonic rather than others. Where two races come in contact,
prejudice arises, and naturally the dominating race wants to exclude
the other; and I am inclined to believe that that is one of the reasons,
on the line of many statements that have been made here before the
honorable committee.
Mr. SceNEIDER (acting chairman). Are there any other questions?
If not, we will excuse the witness; and thank you for appearing and
ziving us this information.
Mr. Canaves. Will you pardon me for making a statement that
this gentleman served with General Pershing in the Tacna-Arica
matter. I would like to have that in the record.
(The statement submitted by Mr. Perales is here printed in full,
as follows?)

Gentlemen of the committee, my name is Alonzo S. Perales, lawyer. Born in
Alice, Tex., October 17, 1898; married to Marta, née Perez, of Rio Grande City,
Tex. Graduated from public school of Alice, Tex., and Washington Preparatory
School, Washington, D. C.; attended school of Arts and Science, George Wagshngton
 University; graduated from National University Law School, LL. B.,
1927; admitted to Texas bar, September, 1925. Served with the United States
Army in Texas during the World War; two and one-half years in the Department
of Commerce, Washington, D. C. Served in the Diplomatic Service of the
United States as assistant to the Hon. Sumner Welles, in the Dominican Republic,
1922; assistant to the United States delegation, Conference on Central American
Affairs, Washington, December, 1922, January and February, 1923; assistant to
Inter-American High Commission; attorney and interpreter, American delegation,
 Plebiscitary Commission, Tacna-Arieca Arbitration, 1925-26; special assistant
to American delegation to Sixth Pan-American Conference, Habana, Cuba, 1928;
attorney with Agency of the United States, General and Special Claims Commissions,
 United States and Mexico, 1928; attorney, American Electoral Mission
in Nicaragua, 1928; special assistant to the International Conference of American
States on Conciliation and Arbitration, held at Washington, December 10, 1928,
to January 5, 1929; special legal assistant, Commission of Inquiry and Conciliation,
 Bolivia, and Paraguay, Washington, D. C., March 13, 1929, to January 3, 1930.
I am very glad indeed to have the opportunity of appearing before vou in
connection with the proposed Box bill.
I understand that those who favor the restriction of incoming Mexicans
characterize them generally as a degenerate and inferior people, incapable of
assimilation or of good citizenship. Such an indictment is absolutely false
and a grave injustice to a worthy race. The truth is, gentlemen, that the vile
calumnies cast against the Mexican people have been prompted chiefly by an
ingrained, deeprooted racial prejudice. Race prejudice has existed through the
ages. Therefore, it is not surprising that the supporters of the quota should
want to restrict the entrance of Mexicans. In his book on Social Psychology,